Keyport council approves change order for water treatment plant project
Keyport council approves change order for water treatment plant project
KEYPORT – Members of the Keyport Borough Council have authorized an increase in a contract through which upgrades are being completed at the borough’s water treatment plant.
On April 6, council members authorized a $52,500 increase to a $564,000 contract that was awarded to Mott MacDonald in 2016 for upgrades to the Perry Street water treatment plant. The contract now totals $616,500 and the increase was made toward the construction phase contract of the project, according to a resolution.
According to Mott MacDonald, the main components of the upgraded water treatment plant include the installation of a new pre-treatment system, a new pressure filtration system, new high service pumps, chemical feed upgrades, supply well upgrades, the rehabilitation of the intermediate and backwash basins, the installation of a new centralized programmable logic controller providing plant operators the necessary level of control and monitoring of the overall treatment plant systems, and installation of an emergency generator under the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.