Project Overview: EU184
The Meridian Sewer Main Improvements Project replaced aging infrastructure and aims to reduce the likelihood of sanitary sewer overflows and accompanying impacts to public health and the environment by adding capacity to the sewage collection system, which is a network of pipes and pumping stations used to transfer wastewater/sewage. This project is in accordance with the City’s 2016 Wastewater Conveyance Plan.
Only the impacted areas of the road have been repaved, in anticipation of WSDOT’s future resurfacing project along Guide Meridian planned for 2027.
Meridian Street is a 5-lane principal arterial street in north Bellingham serving the Birchwood and Cornwall Park neighborhoods south of Interstate 5 (I-5) and serving the Meridian neighborhood north of I-5 as State Route 539. The project area spanned from approximately 800 feet north of Van Wyck Road and approximately 800 feet south of Orchard Drive and included approximately:
- 9,500 feet of mainline sewer within the Meridian Street right-of-way
- 1,600 feet of a branch sewer main south of W. Bakerview Road
- 1,600 feet of branch sewer mains located at intersections
The project was awarded to Ram Construction for $16,874,555.01, from the Sanitary Sewer Fund.
Contact
General questions: askpw@cob.org
Media Inquiries: pwmedia@cob.org
Project Engineer
Aric Smathers, PE
Phone: (360) 778-7942
Email: arsmathers@cob.org
