CENTERVILLE—Centerville City has been approved for an almost $1.7 million federal Surface Transportation Funds grant to improve a .45-mile stretch of 400 East from Pages Lane to Porter Lane, City Manager Brant Hanson told the city council at its April 6 meeting. The exact amount approved was  $1,696,786 ; the city’s anticipated price tag for the project will be $123,214.

Surface Transportation Funds which can be used to improve federal roadways are administered and recommendations are made for their disbursement in the region by the Wasatch Front Regional Council.

“It’s pretty rare to actually have something awarded from that [STP funds],” Administrative Services Director Jacob Smith told the city council. “It’s a one in 100 chance; there wasn’t a whole lot of funds available.”

“It may have been a one in 100 chance, but it was our time,” Mayor Clark Wilkinson responded and praised Smith and City Engineer Kevin Campbell for pursuing the grant. Campbell told the council he thought WFRC liked the bicycle lanes and center median that are a part of the design of the project. 

Construction is expected to begin in five years, “although I have seen items moved up on the list,” Hanson said.

At the same meeting, the city council awarded the bid for its culinary waterline replacement and storm drain improvement project along 400 East from Chase Lane to Parrish Lane. The city received three bids for the project: Great Basin Development and Construction: $ 435,259.00; Ormond Construction: $651,715.01 and SCI: $765,110. The city engineer had estimated the project would cost $431,650. The city council voted to award the bid to Great Basin Development and Construction.

The waterline along the 1-mile stretch currently serves four homes in a cul-de-sac and is mostly for future development, Interim Public Works Director Mike Carlson said. Those four homes should see increased water pressure, he added.  

“We’re trying to get it done before we overlay the road,” he told the The City Journals. “We want to have all the utilities done underneath it. We’re trying to get with the gas, power, phone, anybody that wants to upgrade their stuff in that section of road before we do the reconstruct.” 

The Deuel Creek Irrigation Company was expected to complete replacement of irrigation main lines and service laterals in the area by April 24. Its contractor for its project was Great Basin Development and Construction. They will be able to stay on site and use the same traffic control, City Engineer Kevin Campbell said.

“They won’t skip a beat in moving on to our project once the irrigation project is completed,” he said.

Carlson said the project should be completed by late-summer.