Sewers will come to Bonney Lake’s Eastown soon. Public Works Director Daniel Grigsby wrote city staff and other stakeholders July 1 to announce bids were in on the contract to extend the city’s sewer into the area east of 214th Avenue East.

The contract will extend a sewer line from the existing lift station located underneath the section of state Route 410 in front of the Safeway, down 96th Street East to the approximate location of the as-yet-nonexistent 225th Avenue. Construction of a sewer lift station north of 96th Street East will be put to bid under a separate contract, to be advertised later this summer.

The low bid on the extension project submitted by Johannson Excavating was $692,889.30, an amount more than $250,000 less than the engineer’s cost estimate. The high bid was $931,753.50, still more than $11,000 below the estimate.

Seven total bids were received by the city.

“After City staff reviews the bid with the low bidder, we anticipate running this contract award through the (July 9) Finance Committee and then the (July 23) City Council meeting prior to awarding this contract,” Grigsby wrote. “Anticipate construction would start no earlier than the first week in August.”

A completion deadline on the extension will be established after the contract is awarded.