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Charlotte Water / Construction
FY26 Water and Sewer Infrastructure Construction – Contract 2

Charlotte Water / General Services
Building Sewer Relining (less than 6″)
Charlotte Water is seeking qualified contractors to provide trenchless relining methods to sewer drain lines 6 inches in diameter or smaller located in industrial and administrative facilities. The intent is to rehabilitate aging building sewers, extend service life, reduce infiltration/exfiltration, and restore reliable service without full pipe replacement.

Charlotte Water / General Services
Dewatering and Cleaning of Process Tanks Service
The Charlotte Water Wastewater Management Facilities (WWMF) digesters are critical infrastructure at the WWMF, which provide environmental stabilization of solids prior to being removed from the site for final disposal. The effectiveness and performance of the digesters and their associated equipment, piping, and valves are negatively impacted by trash, grit, etc. that has accumulated in the tanks. The Charlotte Water Wastewater Management Facilities (WWMF) digested sludge storage dewatering equipment is in need of dewatering and cleaning.

Charlotte Water / General Services
McDowell Creek Capacity and Enhancement Program
This project will increase treatment capacity at the McDowell WRRF. Work will include but is not limited to designing a new BTB, RAS and WAS pumps, a new RAS distribution box, new hydro cyclones, and improvements to the blower building.

Charlotte Water / Architectural / Engineering Services
Trunk Sewer Stream Bank Repairs Professional Services
Charlotte Water is soliciting Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) from qualified engineering companies to provide professional engineering services for the Trunk Sewer Stream Bank Repairs Project. The selected firm will prepare recommendations to proactively protect infrastructure from stream erosion and other threats and respond to emergencies as needed. Recommendations could include feasibility studies, detailed construction drawings, and specifications for stream bank stabilization; stream restoration; stream and/or wastewater main repair and relocation.

Charlotte Storm Water Services / Construction
Collective M (Sharon Hills)
The need for this construction project is to improve the storm drainage infrastructure (i.e. pipe systems and culverts) to reduce flooding and to enhance degraded stream reaches to reduce erosion and improve water quality. This project is a collective package of 7 small Storm Drain Improvement projects that will be constructed under one contract. This project package is under review and location and project details will be provided after review is complete.

Charlotte Water / Construction
Mallard Connector Main
| This project provides increased hydraulic capacity to the Mallard Tank, which will enable it to trend better with the Huntersville Tank. This will eliminate the need to throttle inlet valve at Huntersville Tank, which will result in energy savings by reducing discharge HGLs at pump stations. It will also provide higher capacity for water to be leaked through the Mallard PRV from the 978 into the 882 in emergency scenarios. |

Charlotte Storm Water Services / Construction
Caldwell Williams/Old Plank SDIP
Old Plank portion of project: Project initiated due to failure of 84” CMP system on Old Plank Rd. City plans to remove and replace 86” CMP with 56LF 8’x7’ RCBC; Add (2) concrete wingwalls;
Caldwell Williams portion of project: Project initiated due to road flooding. City plans to replace (2) 60” CMP pipes with 39 LF of 13×5 Box culvert. City also intends to add 40LF of 18” RCP; (2) Double catch basins and (2) concrete wingwalls; Pavement and curb replacement.

Charlotte Area Transit System / Commodities & Goods, General Services
Bus Alt/Starter Repair Service
The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) Bus Operations Division (BOD) anticipates contracting with a firm(s) to supply components and the associated labor to recondition Alternators, Starter Motors and Fan Motors currently used on the CATS fixed route buses.
PSR # 1987
The Project consists of an undetermined number of individual projects consisting of water and/or sewer extensions, water and/or sewer replacements, low-pressure sanitary sewer, water distribution system reliability improvement projects, and/or sanitary sewer capacity assurance projects, which will be assigned by the Project Engineer.