Sewer Lagoon Improvement Project is underway

Jon Nelson, of North Fork Engineering told the Encampment Town Council that the project has been mobilized. the contractor began excavation, compaction and backfill with testing to be completed. He said pipe removal is 90% complete and the old structures will be removed. Concrete forms, rebar and road base will be delivered in anticipation of the first footer and the forms in place. Weekly progress meetings will be 2 p.m. each Wednesday at the town hall.

Nelson told the Council that the optional dredging portion bid from American West was $398,000, and noted that there is only $250,000 in the...