$2.5M pipe replacement up for Ketchikan Council approval

The Ketchikan City Council will decide Thursday whether to approve a nearly $2.5 million contract with BAM to replace water and wastewater pipes on Tongass, Front and Stedman streets.
The general contractor BAM was the low bidder for the project, which will coincide with street reconstruction that the state Department of Transportation has planned.
According to a memo from City Manager Karl Amylon, the city has close to a million left in an account dedicated to the pipe replacement project; and