Rogers Group Awarded Bid to Pave Street to Solid Waste Transfer Station

Paving will soon begin from Moog Boulevard to the county’s solid waste transfer station in the Smithville Industrial Park on Highway 70 east.
The county commission Monday night awarded a bid to Rogers Group in the amount of $468,421 (after deduct). It was the lowest of the three bids submitted. “The bids were opened on March 17 at 10:00 a.m. There were three bids for the paving of Moog Boulevard to the transfer station. LoJac Enterprises submitted a bid of $648,064. Rogers Group’s base bid was for $499,413. Tinsleys Asphalt’s bid was for $580, 109. These were the base bids. Our engineer Ronnie Reese put in a deductive item where we will (pave) come right past the crossroad area and no further. The city is planning on putting a couple of posts and a chain across there anyway. Ronnie Reese is recommending that Rogers Group receive the bid. He said they have the equipment and manpower to do it. I just need approval from the county commission. We also had a landfill committee meeting and they recommended the $468, 421 bid to be awarded to pave to the transfer station street,” said County Mayor Tim Stribling
Although the county’s existing Class I landfill still has a remaining life of a year and six months, the new solid waste transfer station could begin operation by late summer.
The transfer station is located behind Tenneco Automotive.
County Mayor Stribling said last month that the conversion from the landfill to the transfer station could begin in August or September. Some work yet remains to be done before the facility is completed. Under an agreement with the county, the City of Smithville has installed a waterline to the site and the county will have to pave the road leading to the transfer station.
” We’re just waiting for warmer weather to have the water turned on. We’ll also have to buy some minor office equipment and a loader to be able to load the garbage into the trucks at the transfer station. We’ll also have to advertise bids for the hauling of the waste to Smith County,” said County Mayor Stribling.