The City Council on Monday is slated to discuss and possibly award a nearly $5 million contract to a Stratford-based company to conduct the first phase of a long-awaited residential drinking water line replacement project. Councilors are being asked to approve a $4.94 million contract with the Burns Construction Company for the removal and replacement of approximately 600 lead-lined water pipes in the northern and downtown areas of the city. The lines will be simultaneously replaced with copper-lined versions, part of an overall $32 million, multi-phase plan to eventually replace 3,300 such pipes across the city. The Burns company, which submitted the lowest project bid, was selected as the preferred bidder by the city’s Water & Water Pollution Control Authority and project consultant Arcadis. In addition to the Burns application, the city received three other project bids: $5.3 million from the Wiese Construction Company; $5.8 million from Gerber Construction; and $10 million from the C.J. Fucci firm, according to an Arcadis memorandum.
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