CWMP Update 7-16-20

Aug 7, 2020 | CWMP Updates

7/16/2020 Update on Wastewater Efforts in Barnstable

  • MEPA Process continues
    • DPW staff coordinating with MEPA office 
    • Next Step – Prepare and submit Single EIR, anticipated submission in October
  • Route 28 East Project
    • Contract has been awarded to Weston & Sampson ($758,300).  
    • Design Efforts underway, kickoff meeting was held yesterday.
      • Design anticipated to be completed in the spring of 2021. Targeting fall 2021 for start of construction.
    • Project includes Phinney’s Lane pump station, force main to back to WPCF and gravity sewer on Route 28 from Strawberry Hill Road to Phinneys Lane and on Phinneys Lane from Wequaquet Lane to Route 28.
  • Survey Work
    • Surveys have begun for the following projects:  
      • Long Pond Sewer Expansion (Anticipated Const. Start = FY25)
        • Surveyor: Nitsch Engineering – $247,787
      • Phinney’s Lane Sewer Expansion (Anticipated Const. Start = FY23)
        • Project includes neighborhoods to west and east side of Phinney’s Lane
        • Surveyor: SMC Dawood – $115,515
      • Route 28 Centerville and Marstons Mills (Anticipated Const. Start = Centerville FY24, MM FY27)
        • Route 28 from Phinneys Lane to Route 149, including MMWWTP conversion.
        • Surveyor: SMC Dawood – $188,620
    • Property owners w/in the project area will be notified via mail in the coming weeks regarding the need for survey crews to access their property.  
    • Anticipate completion of these survey efforts in the first quarter of CY2021 
    • DPW design team will use surveys to prepare preliminary designs in-house.  Consultants will be retained for final design.
  • Continuing design and coordination with Vineyard Wind on the Strawberry Hill Road Project.
    • Additional subsurface utility location was completed in June and design is being modified based upon the results of these findings.
    • Targeting spring 2021 construction.
  • Construction of sewer extension on Kidd’s Hill Road, Merchants Way and Business Drive has been completed (except for final paving).  Funded by MassWorks Grant.
  • Annual Estuary Monitoring Sampling is underway
  • Continuing in-house preliminary design of Phase 1 projects.

OTHER WASTEWATER PROJECTS OF NOTE (NON-SEWER EXPANSION)

  • Rendezvous Lane Pump Station Replacement Project is currently out to bid.
    • Construction anticipated starting this fall and be completed in the spring.
  • Received the Solids Handling Upgrade Preliminary Design Report for $8M+ upgrade to the facility
    • Project on State Revolving Loan Fund (SRF) Intended Use Plan — Appropriation request for construction anticipated in coming months.
  • JBCC. No decision by Air Force yet. Last meeting in March. Drafting letter to try to move things along.

DWS (7/16)