The Hot Springs Board of Directors will consider a contract Tuesday night for the first leg of the raw waterline that will deliver Lake Ouachita water to a new treatment plant off Amity Road.
The $4,769,153 contract with Belt Construction of Texarkana would build the first 2.5 miles of the more than 17-mile line, said Todd Piller, the city's major capital projects manager. He said the first segment will run from the intake site at Blakely Mountain to the Ouachita Treatment Plant on Cozy Acres Road. It's the first of five or six contracts the city will let for the raw waterline, he said.
The first segment will traverse U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land, Weyerhaeuser property and Garland County's Cozy Acres Road right of way. The county agreed last year to let the city use the right of way in return for the city rebuilding and overlaying the road.
"We're really happy to see this one come before the board," City Manager Bill Burrough told city directors. "It really is the initial work for our new water supply."
According to property records, the city acquired a permanent 20-foot wide easement in September across the 90-acre Weyerhaeuser parcel between Blakely Dam and Cozy Acres roads. In May, it acquired a permanent easement along the western boundary of a 40-acre Weyerhaeuser parcel east of Cozy Acres Road.
The first 2.5 miles of the line will be a 48-inch diameter welded steel pipe, Piller said. The 30-inch line the city plans to connect to the raw waterline will feed the Ouachita Plant, giving the facility a second raw water source. Per the city's withdrawal agreement with Entergy Arkansas, the Ouachita Plant's intake on upper Lake Hamilton can take up to 30 million gallons a day from the lake, with usage not to exceed a 20 million-gallon a day average calculated over a rolling three-month period.
Piller said the line will narrow to 42 inches in diameter south of the Ouachita Plant connection.
Belt's bid was the lowest of the nine the city opened last month, according to information presented to the board. It would be paid from the $20 million bond issue the city floated in 2018, accounting for the balance of the bond proceeds. A report the city's finance department provided showed $5.7 million of the proceeds are unencumbered.
The city has $106 million in the construction fund for the Lake Ouachita supply project. The proceeds came from the bond issue the board authorized earlier this year. That debt and the $20 million issued in 2018 are secured by the new rate structure that took effect in January 2018.
The city secured a 23.5 million-gallon a day allocation from the Corps of Engineers in 2017. The plant it plans to build off Amity Road would be rated at more than 15 million gallons a day.
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