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Sewer
work costs soar
Sun News - 5/15
Costs
for the Aurora Road West sewer project continue to soar —
and they may climb even higher before it's finished.
Last
week, City Council approved another change order for the work.
The city will pay Chaney Cement Contractors Inc., a Garfield Heights
firm, $227,383 to rebuild and repave Parkside Trail.
On
May 7, council's Public Works Committee authorized another $60,500
in engineering fees for CT Consultants Inc. of Cleveland.
Those
adjustments push the total price tag from the original $6.08 million
bid to $6.67 million, an increase of 9.7 percent.
Red
flags usually start flying once a project exceeds its original
cost by 10 percent.
Even
worse, the contractor — Terrace Construction Co. Inc. —
has asked for another $97,000 in change orders. If all are approved,
the project cost would rise to $6.76 million, or 11.3 percent
over the original bid.
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