Mansfield approves $338,000 erosion-repair package for Cannon Drive and Rockwood Channel
City of Mansfield Utility Operations Department, Texas · Meeting date: November 9, 2026 · Published: November 10, 2026
Mansfield City Council unanimously approved contracts for the 2025 Drainage Maintenance Projects, targeting erosion that staff said exceeded the capacity of its maintenance crews. The works include a piped solution at Cannon Drive Extension and channel, storm sewer and sanitary-sewer improvements at Rockwood Channel.
Key points
- Council approved the consent agenda 7-0, including a total project budget not to exceed $337,997.52 from the Drainage Utility/Utility Fund.
- Klutz Construction received the construction contract, with a not-to-exceed value of $312,070.90 including a 15% contingency; its base bid was $271,366.
- The Cannon Drive Extension work will replace an erosion-prone roadside ditch with an underground pipe solution near Calvary Cemetery.
- At Rockwood Channel, the city will relocate an exposed sewer manhole and undertake drainage improvements intended to reduce stream velocities and future erosion.
Full report
Mansfield has approved a $337,997.52 package of drainage, channel-erosion and utility works at two locations after determining that the repairs could not be handled by its drainage-maintenance crew.
The City Council approved the contracts as part of its consent agenda on 9 November, with the motion carrying 7-0. Funding had been appropriated in FY2026 from the Drainage Utility/Utility Fund.
The largest contract goes to Klutz Construction for the Mansfield 2025 Drainage Maintenance Projects. Its $271,366 low bid was selected from eight submissions received on 30 September, ranging up to $439,354. The approved construction authorisation is not to exceed $312,070.90, including a 15% contingency of $40,704.90 for uncertainty around riprap, channel vegetation and concrete placement. The contract allows 250 working days from notice to proceed for completion.
The work responds to erosion reported in the Cannon Drive Extension roadside ditch, near Calvary Cemetery, and in Rockwood Drainage Channel adjacent to Mansfield Country Estates. At Cannon Drive, staff said the slope is too steep for the volume of water flowing through it to support re-establishment of an open ditch. The city will install an underground pipe solution intended to permanently eliminate erosion that has contributed to failure of the cemetery driveway.
At Rockwood Channel, the works will address erosion beside the existing subdivision on Country Meadow Drive. A sanitary sewer manhole has become isolated in the middle of the channel and will be relocated. Staff said the resulting drainage improvements would reduce velocities through that reach and prevent future erosion.
The procurement also includes materials-testing services from Raba Kistner, authorised at up to $17,610.52, and surveying services from Westra Consultants, authorised at up to $8,316. Westra designed the drainage improvements, including bank stabilisation, storm-sewer works, culvert reconstruction, sanitary-sewer relocation and open-channel designs.
Council members also raised potential construction traffic effects around Cannon Drive Extension, given ongoing Broad Street works. Staff said the contractor must prepare a traffic-management plan and that a closure of the Cannon Drive stretch could be required for some period.
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Source: 11/9/26 2:00 p.m. Regular City Council Meeting, City of Mansfield Utility Operations Department