Dixon council accepts $2.3M bid to construct wastewater department storage building

The Dixon City Council has accepted a Freeport company’s bid of about $2.3 million to construct a new storage building for the city’s wastewater treatment plant.Dixon Wastewater Department Manager Josh McNitt said city officials have discussed the need for this project since around 2024 because the wastewater plant’s “expensive equipment” is currently stored outside due to a lack of indoor storage space. McNitt said construction would likely start in early spring 2027, but could begin as early as December. The bid from NICAM Construction, LLC, of Freeport, which the council voted to accept on Oct. 19, was the lowest of four received by the city, but was still $295,000 over the $2 million that the city set aside in the wastewater capital fund for the project in its fiscal 2027 budget, city records show. McNitt said the budgeted amount was based on $1.7 million that it cost to construct a similar storage building in 2024 at Dixon’s Oakwood Cemetery. It was increased slightly to account f