By Rusty Nixon Correspondent
PLYMOUTH — The city of Plymouth has opened bids for several sewer projects to be undertaken in the coming months.
The city will completely rebuild the lift station at Red Rock Inn on North Michigan Street hoping to make it more efficient.
“That entire station is going to be replaced,” said Sanitary Superintendent Donnie Davidson. “It will be a submersible station and it will force things down Hoham Drive tying in near Espich Trucking. Currently that station pumps south down Michigan Street where everything is picked up by another station. By rerouting it we are trying to eliminate having to pump twice.”

The lift station at Plymouth/Goshen Trail and Michigan Street will undergo a complete rehab project.
The two projects were bid together with Selge Construction of Niles putting in a bid of $480,853.70, H&G Underground of LaPorte $530,123, HRP Construction of South Bend $696,502, Atlas Excavating of West Lafayette $754,558, and Herman Goetz of South Bend $903,774.50.
“There were several op-tions asked for in each of the bids for equipment that the city may or may not decide to add,” said Davidson. “Engineer’s estimates on those options run about $60,000.”
The city will also start its Sewer Overflow Long Term Control Plan, part of its license from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.
Overflow containers will be buried underground at several locations throughout the city as part of that plan. Locations of the containers will be off of Jefferson in the park area across the street from the Madison Center, on Bailey Street adjacent to Magnetic Park and at the Sewage Treatment plant in the open field to the east.
Bid for the project were entered from Oselka Construction of Union Pier, Mich. for $1,053,462.90, Selge Construction for $1,088,808, HRP Construction for $1,232,505, H&G Underground for $1,235,969.40, Thomas Excavating of Argos for $1,281,265.06 and Atlas Excavating for $1,471,293.
Options are also being looked at on this project with an engineer’s estimate of around $30,000 should the city decide to undertake them.
Bids will be awarded at Monday’s meeting of the various Boards of Works and Common Council. Davidson says that construction on the projects would likely begin in the spring of 2009.