Following receipt of the Texas Water Development Board’s concurrence, the Port O’Connor Improvement District has issued to Lester Contracting, Inc. of Port Lavaca, a Notice to Proceed with the Water Distribution Improvements Project being funded in part by a 2.815 million dollar TWDB loan.

A Pre-Construction conference was held this morning (8/4) at the District offices. The purpose of the Pre-Construction conference is to establish a working understanding among all the parties involved as to the scheduled Work and to discuss project schedules, milestones, procedures, etc. for the project.

Pictured above are key participants in the project: L to R: Joe Goodman, USW District Manager, Leo Madera, Trent Tagliabue, and Daniel Serrata of Lester Contracting, Jody Weaver of G&W Engineers (POCID District Engineer), Sara Sopczynski from the Texas Water Development Board, and Darron Gann of G&W Engineers, Inc. (construction inspector). Lester Contracting plans on starting within the next 2 weeks.

The District will use Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/POCIDofficial/) to post upcoming areas of construction and progress photos.