The Lyon County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved spending $1,670,081.60 on a permanent landfill slide slope closure project at the Lyon County Sanitary Landfill.
The County received three bids, the lowest of which from Burski Excavating, Inc. a small company out of Rice, MN.
The funds will come from the landfill’s Enterprise fund. All of the dollars the County takes in through tip fees at the landfill ultimately are used for future construction, operations, and financial assurance.
The project will provide a permanent closure of side slopes of the landfill, Phase 9 (east and south) and Phase 10 (south), as well as a longterm precipitation barrier of Phase 10A-02 (the top platform of the west and south slopes) to minimize leachate generation.
A question by Commissioner Rick Anderson led to discussion about a possible change order, pending a conversation between Burski and Lyon County Environmental Administrator Roger Schroeder about the County using Burski to possbily do some additional work to prevent County employees from having to do it on the County’s dime.
“After the contract is awarded, if we wanted them to re-establish a portion of the slide slope, that’s something that we could ask for a price on,” Schroeder said. “Depending on the timeline of their schedule is, maybe that would work, maybe it wouldn’t. That’s something I’m certainly willing to ask.”
Anderson made the motion approve the agreement with Burski, with a second from Commissioner Paul Graupmann.
Schroeder said the time is right for the project. “The reshaping of the slide slope needed to happen first before the side slope closure,” Schroeder said.
In a conversation between with a Burski representative and the County, it was confirmed that Burski understands the scope of the project and said it will be able to complete it within the timeframe that was outlined in February. Based on previous Burski projects, the County recommended the board approve its low bid.
In other business Tuesday …
• The board signed off on a perpetual wetland enhancement plan on Greg Taylor’s property near Marshall. The purposes of the project would be to protect about 200 acres of the existing watershed by improving water quality, and increase flood storage. The U.S. Fish and & Wildlife Service is providing financial incentives to complete the work. The ask from the County would be to piggyback federal riparian aid in the amount of $10,500, not to exceed a total of 75% of the cost share, whichever is less.
• The board accepted a low bid of $12,870 from C&B Operations in Tracy for a Z994R Diesel Commercial ZTrak zero-turn lawnmower. The County will receive $5,500.03 on trade of a 2015 Kubota ZD326 mower.
The other bid, of $15,995, was from Kesteloot Enterprises.
