November 6, 2013
$175 million in contracts awarded for Windward Oahu sewer tunnel
By Associated
Press & Star-Advertiser
Honolulu has
awarded more than $175 million in contracts for a sewer tunnel mandated by the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Health.
The city announced
Tuesday that the contracts were awarded for the Kaneohe-Kailua gravity sewer
tunnel project to the joint-venture group of Southland Contracting Inc. and Mole
Construction Inc., and local construction management firm Bowers + Kubota.
The sewer tunnel
will fulfill a portion of a federal consent decree to implement wastewater
remediation projects on Oahu in the next 25 to 28 years.
The project
involves constructing a 3-mile tunnel from Kaneohe Wastewater Pre-Treatment
Facility to Kailua Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant.
City officials
said that over the last two years, they have hosted community meetings about the
project and, based on that feedback, the middle portion of the project's
alignment was moved further from residences. The tunnel now runs behind the
Board of Water Supply Reservoir near Mokapu Saddle Road.
Southland
Contracting is a tunnel excavation and wet-utility installation company, while
Mole Constructors is involved in underground civil construction, according to
the city.
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