City seeks transfer station bids

The city is accepting bids for repair work to the city’s Solid Waste Transfer Station.

The call for bids was issued last week, with the closing date listed for May 9. A bid meeting will take place Thursday.

The transfer station has remained vacant since a fire in the building in September. The building’s closure has been linked to a decision made by Wyoming Waste Services to take recyclable materials collected through the recycling program offered in Green River to the landfill outside Rock Springs.

According to Chris Meats, the city’s finance director, the process is still far from over. He said he isn’t sure when the building will ultimately reopen, but said an estimate he initially had after the fire occurred was the city would be lucky to reopen it by September 2019.

“It’s a long, drawn-out process,” Meats said.

That long process was lengthened by the subsequent investigation following the fire.

The bid package is the largest the city has issued Meats said, totaling more than 1,000 pages. Much of that is due to the insurance company only willing to pay for the building to be returned to its original state, which caused the city to include building specs and closing documents in the packet.

Meats said the building’s roof will have to be removed and the electrical work inside must be completely redone.

“It’s almost a rebid of the building,” Meats said.