Raw sewage in your basement? Gone by Fall

It took more than a decade and an 80% turnover in city councilmen to wrest control of the money away from those that would rather spend money sticking treadmills in a dilapidated building over getting the raw sewage out of citizen's basements, but at long last it IS happening.

On January 25, 2010, the Sac City Council passed resolution 2010-06 entitled, “Resolution Approving Contract and Performance and/or Payment Bonds for the Sanitary Sewer
Improvements Project”.

This resolution, (see Item A below) makes binding the contract (see Item B Below) and payment bonds with Van Hauen & Associates, Inc. for the work on fixing Sac City's broken sewers.

At that meeting, City Administrator Adam Ledford was challenged regarding the length of the construction warrantee. The recent fiasco at the swimming pool in which the original construction seemed to be faulty and for which the city is now paying left a bad taste in some mouths and Mr. Ledford was basically asked if this contract would cover such a scenario several years down the line if the sewer work were to be revealed to be below standard.

The short answer is no. According to Mr. Ledford, existing code, allows for a 2 year construction warrantee after which it is the city's responsibility to fix errors.

Right now, the engineering firm Snyder and Associates has the responsibility to perform the final inspection on the sewer work, but according to a city official, they have the option to sub-contract that work out to another firm at a future date.

Work is set to be complete on August 21, 2010.


Item A


Item B











Copyright (c)2007-2010 Curtis Bloes
All Rights Reserved