At this week's Philippi City Council meeting, council approved amendments to the engineering agreement for the Water Treatment Plant relating to construction-based service fees.
Craig D. Richards, project engineer for Burgess & Niple, asked council for an increase of $19,700 for sludge and backwater services and an increase in work hours, adding that there is a five-month contract extension to the the project that is now about 80 percent complete.
The additional funding will be taken from a contingency of unforeseen project expenditures. The city had already used $163,000 of $1,192,000 available in construction contingency funds, and $19,972 of $223,400 in project contingency funds, according to Richards.
