R20-088AM - Airport Road over Spring Creek Sanitary Sewer Construction Project

Airport Road is an east-west, principal arterial, that carries traffic over Spring Creek on a 47-year-old bridge that is deteriorating, is too narrow to accommodate sidewalks, and has less than half the capacity needed to pass the 100-year flood under the roadway. The Spring Creek Bridge is located approximately 730 feet west of Academy Boulevard adjacent to Fire Station 8. The City of Colorado Springs has initiated a project to increase the length of the Spring Creek Bridge to accommodate sidewalks and deepen the channel below it to pass flood flows below the roadway.

About 2,500 feet of the existing sanitary sewer line will be replaced with a larger pipe to accommodate current needs and future growth in the City. Prior to the start of the bridge replacement work, the selected Contractor for the Project will install this 42” fiberglass-reinforced polymer mortar sanitary sewer line starting within Valley Hi Golf Course, progressing northeast along the western edge of the course up to the Spring Creek Bridge area, and then progressing east within Airport Road to about Lakewood Circle.

As described in the project plans and specifications, the project primarily consists of replacement of the existing sanitary sewer line. A separate project will be advertised for the bridge replacement and it is anticipated that the project schedules will overlap each other.