HVAC upgrades approved for Manistee water treatment plant (USA)

Manistee City Council approved nearly $138,000 for HVAC improvements at its clean water recovery facility to restore and improve operation following summer equipment failures.

MANISTEE — Emergency HVAC improvements will be performed at the city of Manistee's clean water recovery facility.During a regular meeting Dec. 16, Manistee City Council approved a bid of $137,500 from Tweet-Garot Mechanical Inc. for the work.

"This company purchased Temperature Control Inc., out of Traverse City," said city public works director Jeff Mikula. "They've done work with us in the past. They assisted the engineers in kind of diagnosing what was happening here, so we're very comfortable working with their staff." According to the contract found in the agenda packet for the meeting, the work will be substantially complete on or before May 15, and completed by May 29.

The city also received a bid of $141,500 from Hurst Mechanical. Both bids fell within the engineer's estimate range of $135,000 to $175,000.According to a Dec. 5 memo from Mikula to city manager Bill Gambill, the clean water recovery facility experienced an HVAC failure over the summer.

Mikula said in the memo the project is being performed on an emergency basis and was not a budgeted upgrade."We will utilize budgeted operating funds if available and it may require a budget amendment to transfer utility fund balance should there be a shortfall," he said in the memo.