Two more municipal infrastructure projects are set to move ahead with the awarding of two contracts at Whistler's March 26 council meeting.
The Sewer Trunk Main Lining Project ($1,266,479, GST excluded, to Mar-Tech Underground Services Ltd.) will get underway this spring, and include cured-in-place-pipe lining of about 805 metres of sanitary sewer trunk main (697 metres between Alta Lake Road and Function Junction and another 108 metres in Whistler Cay Heights).
The Baxter Reservoir Upgrade Project, meanwhile, will upgrade one of Whistler's most critical reservoirs (located in Bayshores, just below Kadenwood).
The Baxter reservoir is nearly 30 years old, and uses components from other "decommissioned water infrastructure," according to municipal staff, making it less-than-operator-friendly.
The contract for the upgrade work (in the amount of $992,268) was awarded to Coastal Mountain Excavations Ltd., which provided the lowest of six bids—though its bid was still 19 per cent above the engineer's estimate of $833,255.
The RMOW has budgeted $1.1 million for the project in 2019, with a $25,000 contingency budgeted for 2020.
Also at the March 26 meeting, council gave first three readings to a bylaw that will amend the five-year financial plan to include a project that was left out of the previous plan.
The Millar Creek Lands project, as it's called, earmarks $20,000 in 2019 to explore options to potentially secure future parkland along Millar Creek.
