Alexander City sewer project bids opened
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Cliff Williams / The Outlook Alexander City city clerk Amanda Thomas, left, Jacobs Engineering’s Dana Roughton and Mayor Woody Baird open bids for the sewer project from the Kellyton Industrial Park to the Sugar Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility. The line would service the under construction graphite plant.

Officials were surprised Thursday as bids were opened for a new six-mile sewer line to service portions of U.S. Highway 280 and Alabama Graphite.

Norris Brothers Excavating of Cleveland, Tennessee submitted the low bid of $9,241,102 that was opened Thursday. Two other bids of $14.8 million and $16 million had been submitted. But just because the bids were opened doesn’t mean work will start immediately.

Cliff Williams is a staff writer for Tallapoosa Publishers.