CADIZ — The village of Cadiz is one step closer to seeing necessary upgrades to its water treatment facility after receiving multiple bids for the impending project.

Cadiz Village Council received three bids from potential contractors during Thursday’s regularly scheduled meeting that was held via teleconference. Village Administrator Ted Andrzejewski said two of the three bids came in under the village’s initial estimate of $2.4 million. CT Consultants, an engineering and architecture firm retained by the village to aid in the plant’s upgrades, provided the original estimate to village officials.

“We’re OK, we’re within the guidelines,” he said.

The bids include:

n Stanley Miller Construction of Sparta, Ohio — $2,788,000;

n Kirk Brothers of Monroeville, Pennylvania — $2,337,000;

n Border Patrol of Hopedale — $2,327,519.

Andrzejewski said the consultant firm will consider all three bids and hopefully provide council members with a recommendation at the next council meeting.

“They’ll (CT Consultants will) evaluate the three (construction companies) to make sure they each cover everything in the spec,” he said.

A date for the upgrades has not yet been set.

“We’ll evaluate the bids then make a recommendation to council. Council will then award the bid and we’ll go from there and work with the contractor to figure out the timetable,” he said.

The project is crucial to provide an increase in water production capacity in order to supply the new 1,085-megawatt power plant that is set to be constructed sometime this year. Once the rehabilitation is complete, production capacity will reach 1 million gallons per day.

The Harrison Energy Center project was announced earlier this year and will be constructed in the Harrison County Industrial Park in Cadiz. The $1 billion plant will be a natural gas-fired power plant and will provide up to 750 construction jobs during the approximately three-year construction period. A construction date for the plant has not yet been set.

The village has secured multiple funding sources for the water facility upgrades including a principal forgiveness loan of up to $1 million through the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. Additionally, residents saw an increase in water rates that began in February in an effort to aid in funding the project.

Cadiz Village Council will next meet at 7 p.m. May 1 via teleconference.