Mountain Creek Regional Wastewater System Construction Project Awarded Matous Construction, Ltd. Wins Project With $5,479,000 Bid

      The Trinity River Authority accepted the low bid of $5,479,000 from Matous Construction, Ltd. for the construction of the new, 3.0 million gallon per day Mountain Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment System plant.

      Matous Construction, Ltd. has focused exclusively on construction of water and wastewater treatment projects since 1992.  The company has constructed several municipal water and wastewater treatment facilities that are of similar size to the new MCRWS plant. Previous projects have been constructed for Bell County and the Cities of Austin and Robinson, among many others.

      Matous Construction, Ltd., headquartered in Temple, Texas, plans to relocate key people such as project superintendent William Beach and several company foremen to Midlothian for the project.  Other construction personnel will be recruited from the cities of Midlothian, Grand Prairie and surrounding communities.

      Bids were extremely competitive with nine construction companies submitting bids. Matous’ winning bid was just $9,500 below the second lowest bidder.

      “When the bids are that close it means that the engineers did an excellent job on the specifications,” said Bruce Matous, owner and partner in Matous Construction, Ltd.  “The Wallace Group, Inc. put together a well defined set of specifications,” he added referring to the design engineers for MCRWS.

      Thomas Sanders, Construction Services Manager for TRA expects the project to go smoothly.  “Matous comes highly recommended by the engineers and has a reputation for successfully partnering with project owners and engineers,” Sanders said.

      In fact, Matous is the 2000 Winner for the Marvin M. Black Excellence in Partnering Award from the Association of General Contractors for a recently completed project with the City of Austin.  The national award is given to the firm that best epitomizes the principles of partnering. 

      Matous has also won the William H. Feather Safety Award for the safest work record and safety program in the nation.

      TRA will assume full operation and maintenance of the new MCRWS plant upon scheduled completion in March of 2004.  After the new wastewater plant is in operation, TRA will also assume the operation and maintenance of an existing 0.9 MGD wastewater treatment plant.  The Authority will assume operation and maintenance of the existing transportation components of the Mountain Creek Regional Wastewater System in mid 2003.

      TRA entered into a contract with the Cities of Grand Prairie and Midlothian to form the Mountain Creek Regional Wastewater System in February 2002.  This regional system will provide the transportation and treatment of wastewater from these two customer cities.  The City of Venus was added as a customer city to the system in August 2002.

For more information contact John Jadrosich, (817) 467-4343