Union County, through Union County Water, is soliciting bids from qualified contractors to provide repair of sewer system defects, including manholes and service laterals, installing new sewers and manholes to replace existing sewers and manholes, restoration and other miscellaneous sewer system repair work. The purpose of this Contract is to provide the Owner with a Contractor to repair, rehab and replace existing sanitary sewers, manholes and service laterals. Test pits for the purpose of locating all known and unknown underground utilities or structures in advance of the construction shall be excavated and backfilled by the Contractor at no additional cost. Unless Contractor obtains written permission to close a road from an agency with jurisdiction over the road in question, all excavated material shall be placed so that vehicular and pedestrian traffic may be maintained at all times. The Contractor shall at his own cost, provide for the flow of sewers, drains, and water courses interrupted during the progress of the work, and shall immediately cart away and remove all offensive matter.