Lake County commissioners have unanimously adopted a resolution awarding a bid contract — including base and alternate bids — totaling $2,600,873 to Amherst-based Shoreline Contractors for the revetment project at the Bacon Road Water Treatment Facility in Painesville Township. Earlier this year, the board passed a resolution authorizing $4,950,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funding for the project in anticipation of late summer bid opening, one of the last county projects to be so funded. According to Sanitary Engineer Randy Rothlisberger, the Lake County Department of Utilities received bids from four companies, with Shoreline coming up 48 percent under (estimate of) cost. The work, he added, will include the installation of “900 linear feet of new armor stone revetment with a two-to-four-ton stone and Ohio Department of Transportation ‘B’ filler stone placed over the slope along the existing bluff east of McKinley Creek, with grading to provide a more stable angle.” The project will also extend construction of the revetment approximately 300 feet further west of the McKinley property. “About 10 years ago, we finished the revetment in front of our Bacon Road pump station….the raw water pump station,” Rothlisberger said. “Since that time, the shoreline to the west has started to erode and is compromising the pipe that runs from the station to the water plant.” The Bacon Road Water Treatment Facility provides water to over 36,000 residents in Perry Village, North Perry Village, Perry Township, Madison Township and portions of Painesville Township. Rothlisberger emphasized that the project is very important. “The Lake County Department of Utilities worked with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to construct an armor stone revetment along approximately 643 linear feet of shore at the eastern end of the facility in 2019,” he said. “Approximately 1,200 linear feet of shore at the west end of the facility remains unprotected from lake-based erosion. “The purpose of this project is to construct long-term erosion protection for the western portion of the facility’s shoreline,” Rothlisberger added. The department estimates the revetment project to be completed by mid-April.