The costs of the Thames Street and Wellington Avenue sewer project will total $4.4 million.
The Newport City Council announced on Wednesday that Spiniello Companies has been awarded the bid for the Thames Street Sanitary Sewer Interceptor Rehabilitation project. Their bid for the project was $4.3 million. An additional $100,000 allowance for police details will be provided by the town, bringing the entire project to approximately $4.4 million. Funding for the project, which spans Thames Street from Touro Street to Morton Avenue, will be provided by Clean Water State Revolving Loan Funds. In comparison to other bids, Spiniello's was about 25 percent lower than the 2nd lowest bid and almost half of the highest, according to a report submitted by CH2M Hill, the engineering firm overseeing the project. Spiniello Companies is based …
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Members debated whether to put a deadline on the work.
After much discussion at their meeting Wednesday night, Newport Councilors agreed that they want to work closely with Lower Thames Street businesses to make sure that the sewer construction project planned for that area doesn't impede on business, or on the lives of residents. But the councilors stopped short of putting a deadline on the work, acknowledging that it's too soon to do so when a contract has yet to be awarded. A resolution put forth requested that the pending sewer repair construction work, which will repair the sewers to reduce the amount of overflow storm water running into Narragansett Bay, should only occur during Jan. 1 and April 15. The resolution further stated that city administration and the Utilities Department …
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