Council awards $11.15 million contract to replace aging water mains

LAREDO, Texas — The City Council on March 16 approved awarding service contract RFB2026-045 to Murphy Pipeline Contractor (Sunrise, Florida) for a waterworks infrastructure project that will replace aging pipe via pipe bursting and horizontal directional drilling. The contract amount is $11,153,320 and the estimated completion time is 220 working days.

City utilities staff described the contract as the second phase of a multi-phase replacement program that has already replaced tens of thousands of linear feet of water main under a prior phase and spent roughly $40 million on initial work. "We finished the first batch," the utilities presenter said, and the next phase will continue replacement across districts identified in the CIP.

The council voted to award the contract after a brief presentation of maps, schedule and budget availability. The motion carried on a voice vote.

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