The Bossier Parish Police Jury is busy working to provide clean water and sewer to residents in the parish.
During the regular meeting this week, the jury awarded three bids for the Consolidated Waterworks/Sewerage District #1, Winfield Road Booster Station Improvement, and Winfield Road Lift Station and Sewer Improvements.
The jury awarded Wicker Construction, Inc. $3,209,983 for the Winfield Road Water Distribution Improvement contract. For the Winfield Road Booster Station Improvement contract, the jury awarded the contract to Interstate Specialty, LLC for $1,294,800. The last bid, Winfield Road Lift Station and Sewer Improvements, was awarded to ASB Utility Construction, LLC of Shreveport for $1,181,105.
“If you don’t have water and sewer, you don’t have development,” Glenn Benton, District 2 Juror, said. He stated that his goal when he got on to the jury was to try to furnish water and sewer throughout the parish. Benton noted two water systems, St. Mary Community Water System Corporation in Plain Dealing and the Bodcau Water Works, Inc., approached him to be incorporated into the system. He said the other, River Point Racing and Equestrian Center, Inc., is a water well that the Department of Health of Shreveport requested the jury incorporate into Consolidated.
“Small systems like these can’t get the grants for improvement that we can, which goes to help maintain clean water, which is what we are striving to do for all our residents in the parish,” Benton added.
The jury voted unanimously to begin the process of the possible incorporation of three independent water systems into the Consolidated Waterworks/Sewerage District #1.