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6.7.05 Board hires contractor to build Platte West Water Treatment Plant The Metropolitan Utilities District Board of Directors has hired Alberici Constructors Inc. of St. Louis, MO, to build the Platte West Water Treatment Plant at 216 & Q Sts. for $235.7 million. Construction begins this month. The contract calls for the plant to produce drinking water June 14, 2008. The contract also includes an incentive clause of $1.5 million if the plant is producing drinking water by April 1, 2008. M.U.D. President Tom Wurtz said that this is the final major construction contract for the building of the Platte West facility. "The plant will be an economic growth engine now and in the future. Building the plant creates more jobs in our community now," he said. "When it is completed, the plant will provide drinking water for the growing metropolitan area. It also will give customers a triangle of a reliable water supply when combined with the drinking water from the Florence Plant in north Omaha and the Platte South Plant in Sarpy County. "Our customer-owners, current and future, can be assured we will have plenty of safe drinking water for the next 50-60 years to meet all the residential, commercial and industrial needs," said Wurtz. The Platte West Water Treatment Plant will enclose a total of 630,511 sq. ft -- the main treatment building will cover the size of three football fields. It will add a 100 million-gallon-per-day pumping capacity to M.U.D.'s system, bringing the total pumping capacity to 338 million gallons per day. Alberici Constructors Inc. has done projects for the cities of Detroit, Milwaukee, Louisville as well as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Boeing Co., Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., Kellogg's, Kimberly Clark Anheuser-Busch and Hershey Foods. Corp. The employee-owned company was established in 1918 and has an annual contract volume of $600 million. Alberici Constructors President Greg Kozicz said that his company is proud to be associated with this important community project. "M.U.D. and its engineer, HDR Engineering Inc., have been very professional and thorough during the procurement process. We plan to use a significant local labor force and local subcontractors during the construction. We are looking forward to getting started." John F. Bourne, business manager of IBEW Local 22, said that not only is the plant a needed and great project for M.U.D., but it provides an economic boost to the Omaha metro area with the hiring of local crafts people to do the construction work. "Every dollar M.U.D. spends on construction of this project will turn six or seven times in the community," he said, "similar to the college world series economic impact to the community." |
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