City expands work for Cache Road waterline project

West Lawton drivers are going to have to put up with lane closures on Cache Road for three more months.

The City Council agreed this week to extend the existing west Cache Road waterline project, giving Evans & Associates Utility Services Inc. 90 more days and $389,603.96 more dollars toward its existing $15.589 million contract to install 9,000 feet of 36-inch waterline on Cache Road between Northwest 40th and Northwest 67th streets.

The extension will give the firm more time for more work: additional pavement repairs and improvements to Cache Road, as needed for pipeline trenching and backfill; and adjusting and modifying alignment and connections to 30-inch water mains at Hunter Road and Atlanta Avenue, along with additional pipe casing, pavement repairs, curb and gutter repair, and related work.

The extension means that rather than being done by mid-March, the completion date now is June 11.

Evans & Associates began its work last Fall, as one of two waterline upgrade projects that are replacing deteriorating and high-maintenance waterlines along the length of Cache Road, Northwest 67th Street to Fort Sill Boulevard.

In addition to the waterline work on the south side of Cache Road, westbound drivers also are dealing with bridge upgrades that have begun on the westbound bridge over Wolf Creek between Northwest Oak and Northwest 44th Street. That work has restricted traffic to two lanes, as K&R Builders tackle upgrades in the westbound bridge before moving to the eastbound bridge later this year.