The Metropolitan District Commission has awarded a $5 million contract to a St. Louis, Mo., vendor to install some 10 miles of wastewater line using proprietary technology to salvage existing inground pipe.
Aegion Corp. said it will pump its cured-in-place pipe product into MDC’s aging small- and medium-diameter lines in various sections of its Hartford area network, avoiding disturbing the existing pipe and surrounding surface soils and pavement. The project, to begin soon, will take about a year to complete, Aegion said.
The company claims to have gotten more than $30 million in competitive-bid contracts from MDC to fortify more than 140 miles of piping.
Aegion Vice President Jeff Kowal stressed his company’s commitment to working with local minority subcontractors, a stumbling block for some contractors on the project.
MDC supplies drinking water to and reclaims wastewater from Hartford and more than a dozen member communities in central Connecticut.
The work is part of MDC’s billion-dollar upgrade to satisfy a consent decree with federal environmental regulators.
