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The city of Timmins’ water filtration facility is located west of the city jetty on the Mattagami River. RICHA BHOSALE / The daily press jpg, TD
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The city council awarded two contracts related to water and sewage at its April 6th session.
Toronto-based Fer-Pal Construction Ltd. won an order valued at $ 1,698,960 plus HST for the water lining of river crossings for water filtration plants and the Feldman development contract.
It was the only offer that had been made in response to the offer.
The second amount of $ 278,329.45 plus HST for surveillance camera inspection of sewers was awarded to Brantford-based Wessuc Inc.
Patrick Seguin, the city’s public works and engineering director, said Fer-Pal Construction Ltd. have worked on similar Wassermain lining projects for the community.
“Our budget was $ 1.9 million,” he said. “The three locations we are targeting were certainly influenced by the work we had to do this winter (Watermain breaks).”
The written report accompanying Seguin’s presentation showed that these disruptions were affecting security of supply for the Mountjoy area.
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“I have good news,” he said. “We have been working on this river crossing since January and over the weekend we finally received our bacteriological results. The crossing is therefore back in operation.
“It was a long task from January to April, so kudos to my whole group for working hard on it.”
The project will rehabilitate the two oldest river crossings in the city’s inventory to ensure adequate water supply to the western end of the community.
“One is arguably the twin, another intersection that crosses the Mattagami River, but it’s the same line we just repaired,” said Seguin. “It’s 225 meters long and leads to the truck ranch. This is a line from 1977. Again, they don’t have the lifespan we should expect. “
According to the written report, the Wassermain, originally installed in the 1920s and flowing through the Feldman development, was inherited from the Hollinger mine, making it one of the oldest Wassermain pipes in the city’s inventory.
With the rehabilitation of this water main, the city will ensure the water supply for the Feldman development as well as a replacement water supply for the Schumacher area.
“We have had discussions with the developer and, working with him, it will certainly be a saving for us to work there at this particular point in time to take over the feed while he goes through his development,” said Seguin.
“We definitely wanted to avoid a future interruption with a line that is more than 100 years old.
Seguin stated that the third section is a 1967 line.
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“That’s the original line that Mountjoy fed,” he said. “It’s a 10 inch line and we’re going to line that.
“This means that all the intersections serving Mountjoy are new.”
Ward 3 Coun. Joe Campbell was pleased to see that the project included Feldman development.
“The owners there have plans to expand this development with other businesses,” he said.
“They’ll bring in about $ 9 million more in assessments and tens of thousands of dollars in additional taxes.”
The city’s system consists of approximately 221,000 meters of water, and this treaty only accounts for about 0.3 percent of that category of buried infrastructure.
Including this work, the city will have lined 5,786 meters of water pipeline in the past three years.
Meanwhile, under the second contract, Wessuc Inc. will inspect approximately 11.5 kilometers of plumbing and 10 kilometers of storm sewers across the community.
“They actually clean the sewer and camera it,” Seguin said. “We use a PCAP (Projected Capacity) assessment so that we can prioritize which sewers will be lined in the future.
“This year we actually expanded this contract. We also do our storm canals because this is a canal that was usually a canal that was left untouched.
“The areas we selected for inspection date back to 1921 and are usually clay tiles. So we get a lot of data. “
Seguin said he has currently inspected around 77,000 meters of plumbing duct, which is roughly 41 percent of the city’s total inventory. So we’re making some big wins here, ”he said.
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“Inspecting sewers is certainly much easier than water supply, as we have access through manholes and the like. We work a lot on our sewage system. “
Regarding storm sewers, Seguin noted that the city’s system consists of approximately 110,000 meters of gravity sewer for rainwater.
And work under the contract only provides information on 10 percent of this category of buried infrastructure.
“You are ready to begin this work almost anytime,” he said.
Mayor George Pirie, considering the age of some of the clay tiles, wondered what would be left when they were inspected.
Seguin said, “It depends on the area and type of soil, but we find some that have completely collapsed. Some are cracked. Wherever we can, we’ll do repairs on site.
“Otherwise they become candidates for the feed. When you line the pipe, the lining pipe, although it disappears, becomes the new pipe. “
The bid from Wessuc Inc. was the lowest of six bids received for the project. The other offerings were from Lively-based Infratech Services ($ 1,279,488 plus HST), Brighton-based 2414002 Ontario Limited ($ 1,309,130.40 plus HST), and Pipetek, based in Burlington Infrastructure Services Inc. ($ 1,310,071 plus HST), Capital Sewer Services Inc., located in Vaughan ($ 1,318,458.88 plus HST), and Sewer Technologies Inc., located in Port Perry ($ 1,347,192 plus HST).
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