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Bryan Municipal Utilities Operations Manager Derek Schultz said 12 new manway gaskets were needed for the South High Pressure Filter Rehabilitation Project, which added $748 to the project in its only change order.
Bryan Municipal Utilities Operations Manager Derek Schultz said 12 new manway gaskets were needed for the South High Pressure Filter Rehabilitation Project, which added $748 to the project in its only change order.
Delivery of necessary parts for a substation rehabilitation project in Bryan has been pushed back, but won’t affect project completion.
The parts are four 72.5 kilovolt circuit breakers from GE Grid Solutions. The breakers are part of a plan to upgrade the city’s entire sub-transmission electric service system to 69 kV capacity.
The parts are needed for the final step in the plan by upgrading the power plant substation.
Jim Coressel, power plant supervisor, told the Bryan Board of Public Affairs Tuesday the parts were ordered in April with a timeline for delivery in the middle of September or October.
“They have recently come back that they would not be able to supply those breakers to us before Nov. 28,” he said.
He talked it over with other officials and asked the board to change the delivery date to Dec. 31, to give them plenty of time for delivery.
Overall, Coressel said even if it was delivered at the end of the year, it shouldn’t change the timeline for the construction.
“We have delays in anything we’re ordering right now,” he said.
The board unanimously approved extending the timeline.
Karen Ford, BPA member, said one of the two top reasons for making a change order are changes in project cost or changes in the timeline.
“Unfortunately,” Dick Long, BPA members, added, “we don’t have any control over supply chain issues. You’re not the first one, we’ve got other things going on with the same issues.”
Separately, the BPA approved a change order for refurbishing the South High Pressure Filter Rehabilitation.
Bryan Municipal Utilities Operations Manager Derek Schultz said the change order was for new manway gaskets.
“These gaskets are what seal the manways, the entry into the filter,” he said. “When they took the filter out of service and removed them, they found they were unusable and needed to be replaced.”
This was the only change order for the $128,000 project, and added $748 for 12 of the gaskets.
Schultz said the filter is back in service.
In other business, the BPA:
• Donated $4,000 to the Bryan Parks and Recreation Department. Schultz said the board had done this for several years now.
• Approved a new hire each to the water, power plant and maintenance department and a resignation of an electric department employee. The board also approved advertising to replace the electric department employee.
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