The Española City Council at a special meeting Sept. 7 unanimously approved a pump station renovation project for the city’s wastewater treatment plant.
The Council accepted a $207,780 bid from RMCI, Inc. of, Albuquerque, as well as a $20,000 contingency marker that could be applied to the project if necessary.
“It’s in dire need of repairs,” Public Works Director Marvin Martinez said. “Two of the four pumps are fully-functional.”
Martinez said the wastewater treatment plant requires the Council’s immediate attention as the facility cannot function properly with only half of its pump stations in working order.
“In order to prevent a disaster from occurring, we’re asking the Council to consider this an emergency,” Martinez said.
Martinez added that the life expectancy of the new pump station is 15 years.
In other business the council approved, by a 6-0 vote with one abstention, a $110,000 bid from Leroy’s Excavating, of Hernandez, for resurfacing of 30 feet by 422 feet of old road on Calle Salazar and a portion of Hunter Street including replacement of 144 feet by 30 inches of curb and gutter.
The bid states that Leroy’s will mill up the excess asphalt and will haul the debris to the designated landfill.
City Councilor Robert Seeds abstained from the vote, after debating the necessity of repaving Hunter Street saying that other streets were in worse need of repairs.
“I just think the money could go toward other parts of the city,” Seeds said.
City Councilor Cory Lewis was absent.