KC Water constructed important improvements to the water and wastewater system in your neighborhood. This project rehabilitated sewer mains, service lateral connections, and manholes in your area to like-new conditions. Now complete, the project has improved the capacity of the wastewater collection system and reduced the volume of sewer overflows into local waterways and the potential for basement backups.

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What work was done?

KC Water's improvements to the wastewater system included: 

• Restoring approximately 900 service lateral connections and 286 manholes
• Completing 57 open cut point repairs on
  sewer mains
• Replacing 3,093 linear feet of sewer mains
• Lining 60,894 linear feet of sewer main with cured-in-place-pipe
• Restoring approximately 58,000 linear feet of aging sewer mains 67 open cut lateral connections

What was the timeline?

Construction began in February 2024 and was completed in June 2025. 

Who did the work?

KC Water was assisted by its program manager, Burns & McDonnell, and its design professional, George Butler Associates (GBA). The selected contractor was Havens Construction Company, Inc.

What was the contract amount?

The total budget for the design portion of this project was approximately $10,282,000. 

Why are we doing the work?

In 2010, the City of Kansas City, Missouri entered into a federal Consent Decree with the United States Environmental Protection Agency to reduce the volume of overflows from the City’s sewer system. KC Water’s Smart Sewer program is a 30-year effort to address this challenge. The Birmingham/Shoal Creek Area 2 Inflow & Infiltration Reduction Project is one of more than 100 projects being implemented by the Smart Sewer program and is required by the Consent Decree to be completed by December 2029. 

Questions? To learn more please contact:

Drew Taylor
Field Operations Manager
Burns & McDonell
(785)845-5588
agtaylor@burnsmcd.com

JIM CHERNEY
Project Manager
SE3
(816) 839-5736
jcherney@se3.us

NADER SHEHATA
Resident Project Representative
Olsson
(913) 271-8182
nshehata@olsson.com

SPENCER MOORE
Construction Contractor
Kissick Construction
(816) 363-5530
smoore@kissickco.com