Pre-Qualified Contractors (Beaver Mines Project)
The Municipal District of Pincher Creek (MD) is opening a pre-qualification process to develop a list of pre-authorized contractors for private property owners in the Hamlet of Beaver Mines undertaking the installation of private property Water and Wastewater Lot Servicing.
The intent of this pre-qualification process is to develop a list of pre-authorized contractors (general, plumbers, etc.) whom have read and understood the Utility Services Guidelines; which outline the procedures and requirements to be followed when connecting to the Municipal systems) and have the qualifications required to install private water and drainage lines. The MD will maintain a list of these pre-qualified contractors on our website and provide these lists directly to the residents of Beaver Mines.
There are 60-70 Water and Wastewater Private Service Connections required in Beaver Mines, connection to municipal systems is mandatory within the next 4 years. It is household and commercial property owner’s responsibility to hire contractor(s) to design and construct the service connections on their property keeping in view specific requirements of the property and surface/subsurface constraints of the lot. Owners may use their own contractors, but have been recommended to use MD pre-qualified contractors.
Major work items for on-property work will include:
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Disconnecting existing water and wastewater infrastructure from households
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Supplying and installing (trench or drill) water and wastewater lines from curb stop/property edge to existing infrastructure inside and/or external to households and buildings in accordance with all applicable regulations and laws
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Installing MD supplied water meters per MD requirements
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Decommissioning, removal, and/or repurposing existing systems such as septic tanks/fields and cisterns
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Ensuring all required approvals, permit, and inspection requirements are met
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Performing all required locates and hydrovacs for existing infrastructure
Other expected work items may include (but are not limited to):
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Tree/brush removal
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Removal of water treatment devices
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Landscape restoration
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Driveway restoration
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Well reclamation
For more information regarding the application process, please refer to the MD website at
https://mdpinchercreek.ab.ca/content.php?p=732 for the documentation and forms.
Note that the MD reserves the right to accept any number of pre-qualifications that it deems most advantageous and also the right to reject any or all submissions which, in the opinion of the MD, are incomplete, obscure, irregular, non compliant with the terms of the pre-qualification document, an obvious conflict of interest, or found to contain non-disclosures of such and/or other pertinent details. The MD is under no obligation to pre-qualify any Contractor, and reserves the right to terminate the pre-qualification process at any time, and to withdraw from discussions with any or all of the Contractors who have responded. Currently, a deadline has not been implemented to submit a pre-qualification submission.
The MD will begin accepting submissions June 1
st, 2023. Currently, the MD is anticipating acceptance of flow sometime between September 1
st, 2023 and October 15th, 2023. We anticipate providing tighter dates in subsequent updates.
Please note that contractors must not connect to the curbstops and stubbed sewer connection until the treatment system is able to take flows. The MD will issue the exact date when it is ready to allow final connection to the system. Contractors MUST NOT connect before this date.
Any contractor that desires to perform work related to Beaver Mines Lot Servicing on private property is free to do so, provided the requirements of
Bylaw 1344-22 and the Utility Services Guidelines are met.
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