Work on Phase I of the water and wastewater replacement project in Flandreau should be done soon.

Carstensen Contracting out of Pipestone has been working to replace the waterline since last summer. The portion along West First Avenue from Industrial Park Road to South Veterans Street is nearly finished.

Flandreau City Administrator Don Whitman said engineers walked through the project last Friday and came up with a list of things that still need to be done.

One of the biggest items left on Phase I of the project is placing a chain link fence around the lift station by the corner of First Avenue and Industrial.

Two phases of the project remain. At their April 3 meeting, city council members awarded the bid for phases two and three of the water and wastewater replacement project to H & W Contracting out of Sioux Falls.

Dave Burwitz from Clark Engineering attended the meeting and recommended the council award the base bid. He also recommended they choose at alternate for surfacing along West Avenue, on which the council asked for pricing.

There are enough funds remaining from the first phase of the project for the base bid from H & W, which replaces the water, sewer and storm sewer lines on First Avenue from Veterans Street to the water tower on Lindsay Street.

The surfacing alternate on West Street from First Avenue to Bridge Avenue will have to be funded by the city. Council members preferred the option of six inches asphalt estimated by the low bidder at $53,576.25, which is a lower price when combined with the waterline project

Bid Alternate 2 would cost $712,474.40 and the city will have to borrow an additional $480,000 for Rural Development, who has overseen the project.

The city council members approved to award the base bid plus the surfacing alternate and Alternate 2 to

H & W Contracting in the amount of $4,757,911.05 with Alternate 2 contingent on the receipt of additional funds from Rural Development.