Century moves forward on sewer grant

At it’s Nov. 19 meeting, the Century Town Council approved a request to award Talcon Group the contract to complete phase II lift station project of miscellaneous wastewater improvements at the town’s wastewater facility, with the town supplying $200,000 from Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) funds.

Municipal Engineering’s Dale Long told the council when the base bids to complete the project came, both were way over budget.

“One bid was $7.6 million and the high bidder was $12.2 million, and we have about $5 million in the budget, so obviously we are over budget,” said Long.

Long said he recommend...