CLEVELAND, Tenn. – Cleveland City Council members today will be asked to approve a nearly $65,000 change order related to the ongoing project to connect Harriman Road to APD 40.
If approved, the $64,892 change order — the seventh so far — will bring the project cost up to about $3 million. That’s $542,865 above the original $2.5 million contract agreement with Steve Williams Construction.
The change order is related to increased costs for installing an underground drainage system under the roadway and required rock excavation, according to an email that construction engineering inspector Eric McElroy sent to Cleveland officials.
“This work required additional blasting on the slopes, tedious equipment operations and precise excavation of … material,” said the supplemental agreement submitted by Steve Williams Construction. “Since the slopes were already completed, the additional excavation was increasingly more difficult and riskier than the original.”
The expected overrun on the project was estimated to be about $400,000, Assistant City Manager Melinda Carroll told the council in March. But she said overages on the Harriman Road connection to the south side of APD-40 should be offset by lower costs for its counterpart on the north side of APD-40.