article thumbnail

Clean Water Advocates Seek Legal Pressure in Baltimore

Construction Equipment

Not confident that necessary sewage and water repairs will be finished on time, the Blue Water Baltimore filed this week for legal status to help enforce a federal court order that requires Baltimore to make $1.2 billion in repairs to its sewer system over the next 15 years.

article thumbnail

Spearin Doctrine: A Construction Case Described in A Tweet!

Best Practices Construction Law

In order to build the dry-dock in the site selected for it, the contractor was required to relocate a portion of a sewer that ran through the specified site. The owner (the United States) provided the plans and specifications for the sewer that was to be relocated. The owner approved and accepted the work.

Sewer 63
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Davis Bacon Prevailing Wage Rages

Job Order Contracting

Example: sewer & water line projects. NOTE: The above is NOT intended as ANY form of LEGAL ADVICE, but rather simply information to be considered and reviewed as appropriate for your organization. The latter are adds/deducts to the parent line item to account for quanity or task specific variations. Report this.

article thumbnail

The Largest Net-Zero Community Will Have 21,000 Homes

Pro Builder

FivePoint has worked on this project for nearly 20 years, an extended timeline due to legal battles between environmentalists and real estate planners, says CNBC. Recycled wastewater will be used for all irrigation through high-tech sewer pump stations, and landscaping will be drought tolerant and low combustible.

article thumbnail

California Construction in the Time of Covid-19

Construction and Infrastructure Law

This alert is provided for information purposes only and does not constitute legal advice and is not intended to form an attorney client relationship. This blog post does not address the potential impacts of the numerous other local, state and federal orders that have been issued in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

article thumbnail

California Construction in the Time of Covid-19

Construction and Infrastructure Law

This alert is provided for information purposes only and does not constitute legal advice and is not intended to form an attorney client relationship. This blog post does not address the potential impacts of the numerous other local, state and federal orders that have been issued in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. FOOTNOTES. [1]

article thumbnail

Factors impacting standby generator costs

CK Power

You can choose to only power those loads which are legally required. For non-critical applications such as sewer pump stations, however, it’s a good way to save money on the overall cost of your standby generator. Or you can choose to power optional loads such as IT rooms, HVAC systems and other non-critical equipment.