{"id":111211,"date":"2026-01-09T01:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/111211\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T01:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:56:11","slug":"cape-coral-oks-14-1m-in-utility-projects-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/111211\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral OKs $14.1M in utility projects | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Coral City Council approved more than $14,112,298 worth of utilities projects at its Jan. 7 regular meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Among its largest ticket items, the city awarded the firm Douglas N. Higgins Inc. $6,674,064 to complete work on the addition of water supply wells. The cost includes labor, construction materials and testing for six Upper Floridian Aquifer water supply wells for Phase 1 of the North Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Plant Expansion Project.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the same Phase 1 project, the city awarded a $5,101,020 bid to Accurate Drilling Systems Inc. for the installation and testing of a raw water main pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>The city also approved $2,337,214 for the firm Andrew Sitework LLC for the rehabilitation and refurbishment of five duplex lift stations.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the city\u2019s wastewater collection and transmission system, the stations are routinely inspected and rehabilitated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape Coral City Council approved more than $14,112,298 worth of utilities projects at its Jan. 7 regular meeting.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3335,325],"class_list":{"0":"post-111211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-gb-daily","12":"tag-lee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}