Florence investing in water recharge
by Mark Cowling | Florence Reminder & Blade Tribune
Two construction contracts worth a total of more than $600,000 were awarded to build a facility at which the town will recharge its treated wastewater to the aquifer and receive water credits from the state.
“Water credits are very valuable, and as it stands today, a lot of our water just goes out to the river,” Town Manager Brent Billingsley commented after Monday’s Town Council meeting. “These are investments in our future, investments that will go on for decades, and the price of water is going to do nothing but go up.”
The Town Council voted to award a contract to JAYCO for $263,700 and another to Scholtz Contracting for $341,634. Each contract includes a 20 percent contingency.
