{"id":173275,"date":"2026-02-20T19:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173275\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T19:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:35:13","slug":"schertz-approves-513-9k-contract-for-wastewater-relocation-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173275\/","title":{"rendered":"Schertz approves $513.9K contract for wastewater relocation project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSchertz City Council approved a $513,900 construction contract with RL Jones for the construction of the Bell North Drive Sewer Project on <a href=\"https:\/\/public.destinyhosted.com\/agenda_publish.cfm?id=72437&amp;mt=ALL&amp;get_month=2&amp;get_year=2026&amp;dsp=ag&amp;seq=941\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Feb. 17<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The details<\/p>\n<p>Although the construction contract is $513,900, the council authorized an expenditure of up to $575,000 for the project. The contract is being funded through the city\u2019s Capital Improvement Plan, and Sewer Reserves will fund the project, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/public.destinyhosted.com\/agenda_publish.cfm?id=72437&amp;mt=ALL&amp;get_month=2&amp;get_year=2026&amp;dsp=agm&amp;seq=4704&amp;rev=0&amp;ag=941&amp;ln=21555&amp;nseq=4705&amp;nrev=0&amp;pseq=4700&amp;prev=0#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">agenda documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771616113_534_thumbnail.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"chart visualization\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Bell North Drive Sewer Project will eliminate individual grinder pumps at each business in that area and allow for a gravity collection system. This will be more efficient and easier for public works crews to maintain, agenda documents state.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s goal is to complete construction ahead of a proposed street surface improvement project, which supports the council&#8217;s strategic objective of maintaining wastewater and transportation infrastructure, agenda documents state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Schertz City Council approved a $513,900 construction contract with RL Jones for the construction of the Bell North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[70021,70019,362,70020,82,84,83,367,52506],"class_list":{"0":"post-173275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-bell-north-drive-sewer-project","9":"tag-construction-contract","10":"tag-northeast-san-antonio","11":"tag-rl-jones","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","14":"tag-san-antonio-news","15":"tag-schertz","16":"tag-schertz-city-council"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}