Rock-N-Road awarded $2 million bid for wastewater pump station replacement

Rock-N-Road Construction was awarded the contract for the borough’s Pump Station 4 and force main replacement project during Monday’s borough assembly meeting on Jan. 6.

Rock-N-Road’s $2,090,300 bid came in well below a competing $2.9 million bid and the engineer’s initial estimate for the project of $2.56 million.

Funding for this project has already been secured by the borough through a loan from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation Alaska Clean Water Fund. Petersburg voters approved the debt service for this project in 2019.

Pump stations are how Petersburg’s wastewater reach...