Omaha awards $65.9m for Northeast Omaha CSO sewer packages
City of Omaha, Nebraska · Meeting date: November 3, 2026 · Published: November 4, 2026
Omaha City Council has approved two major contracts covering a North Downtown conveyance sewer and an active-control, grit and screening facility under the Northeast Omaha High-Rate Treatment Basin programme. The combined $65.9m awards will be financed from the city’s Sewer Revenue Improvements Bond Fund.
Key points
- Super Excavators won the $20.595m North Downtown Conveyance Sewer contract, designated NEOHRTB Package 1.
- Hawkins Construction Company secured a $45.305m contract for the 11th and Izard Active Control and Grit and Screening Facility, NEOHRTB Package 2.
- Both awards are funded from the Sewer Revenue Improvements Bond Fund’s CSO Control Implementation allocation; sewer revenue bonds will finance the conveyance sewer project.
- Council also approved a $335,402.54 change order for the CSO 202 Phase 2 sewer-separation project and permanent easements totalling 369,636 sq ft for the Tranquility Park interceptor sewer project.
Full report
Omaha City Council has authorised $65.9m of contracts for the first two packages of the Northeast Omaha High-Rate Treatment Basin (NEOHRTB) programme, advancing a conveyance sewer and a new active-control, grit and screening facility under the city’s CSO control implementation funding stream.
The larger award, worth $45.305m, went to Hawkins Construction Company for OPW 55168, the NEOHRTB Package 2 11th and Izard Active Control and Grit and Screening Facility Project. The second contract, valued at $20.595m, was awarded to Super Excavators Inc. for OPW 55167, Package 1 of the programme: the North Downtown Conveyance Sewer project.
Both contracts were approved as part of the council’s consent agenda on 3 November. Payments will be made from the Sewer Revenue Improvements Bond Fund, under the CSO Control Implementation organisation. The resolution for the North Downtown conveyance sewer specifically states that sewer revenue bonds will be issued to finance the work.
The two awards amount to $65.900m and place the conveyance element and the 11th and Izard facility under contract at the same meeting.
Council also approved a $335,402.54 change order with L.G. Roloff Construction Co. for additional work on OPW 53869, the CSO 202 Phase 2—70th Avenue and Spencer Street Sewer Separation Project. That increase will also be funded from the Sewer Revenue Improvements Fund’s CSO Control Implementation allocation.
Separately, the council approved four declarations dedicating portions of city-owned Tranquility Park for permanent sewer easements for the Tranquility Park Interceptor Sewer Reconstruction & Rehabilitation Project, OPW 54857. The approved easement areas are 162,636 sq ft, 160,578 sq ft, 8,755 sq ft and 37,667 sq ft, totalling 369,636 sq ft.
In a further utility-support decision, the council approved a purchase order with Midwest Laboratories Inc. for laboratory testing of wastewater, stormwater, surface-water, biosolids, soil and compost samples. The agreement carries an estimated annual value of $89,103.44 from 1 January 2027 through 31 December 2029, with provision for up to two additional two-year extensions by mutual agreement.
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Source: City Council Meeting, City of Omaha