DREDGING ABOUT TO BEGIN
At a Special BOD Meeting held on May 24th at 6pm at the Rec Center with fifteen in attendance your BOD has decided to award the lake dredging project to Dakota Dredging and Dewatering of Sioux Falls, SD. This was done by unanimously passing Resolution 10-R-18 which was read into the record by BOD member Don Parisi.
On Friday, May 21st the sealed bids were opened in Tracy’s office. Seven bids had been requested and two were received. Dakota not only came in at a cost of savings of almost $130,000 less than TID, INC, the other company ($298,199.50 vs. $425,532.00), the time frame was more agreeable being approximately 45 days as opposed to four months. In addition to Tracy two BOD members and 3 residents were in attendance at the bid opening.
Rich Witt advised those in attendance that Dakota was at CWL a week or so ago and were impressed with what was being done with the dewatering areas as well as they other aspects of the preparation.
Discussion followed as to the cost differences as the North Bay will cost $11.50 per cubic yard to dredge and the East and West Bays will cost $13.00. This difference is because the silt needs to be pumped further and an auxiliary pump which runs on diesel fuel needs to be utilized to for this to be accomplished. The south dewatering area will drain through the creek into Boone Lake and the north dewatering area will drain through the silt pond and back into the Candlewick Lake.
A penalty clause, in case the job is not completed in a timely manner, will be included but the amount is still to be determined. Tracy said he thought a fair fee would be $500.00 per day. He also stated that is not an early completion clause included in the contract. Jeff Lutzow asked how the payments are to be made. Tracy replied that the bill will be paid upon completion and following the verification of our engineer, Wexler Engineering.
The bid amount may be adjusted if more silt is removed than anticipated. After the silt is in the dewatering areas there are ways to measure the volume including using a GPS system.
Tracy stated that the dredging will begin with the West Bay, followed by the East Bay and ending with the North Bay. The West Bay was the chosen starting point as that dewatering area is near completion and the dredge pipe will run in front of the Rec Center and the marina and while the pipe is submerged he feels that this will cut down on complaints from residents.
After opening the bids Tracy checked with Dakota, who proposed to being moving their equipment on-site on June 15th, to advise them that the south dewatering area is completed, or will be in a day or two, and Dakota agreed to move their time frame up. The current projected completion date is August 17th. Tracy said that after talking to Dakota again a special Lake Management meeting will be set-up to advise residents of a more detailed time frame.
Submitted by Bonnie Marron