Request to spend more on pump stations not unusual, officials say

BATON ROUGE - Despite asking city leaders to approve a four-percent increase in cost and nearly a year of additional work, engineers of the city's $1.2 billion sewer upgrade say the project is on budget and on time.Wednesday, the SSO asked the Metro Council to approve spending $859,659 on various items needed to do work on sixteen pump stations around O'Neal Lane. The work requires an extra 309 days. Construction started at the end of 2013 on this specific project.The entire SSO project is expec