BY ADAM ATKINSONNorth Country This Week

POTSDAM — Bids have been approved for lab testing services and treatment chemicals for the village’s water and waste water treatment plant.

The village board of trustees at their March 23rd meeting approved several bids for the plan and seconded a resolution awarding the bid for annual laboratory testing requirements at the Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants for the fiscal year June 1, 2026 to May 31, 2027 to:

Converse Laboratories Inc. of Watertown, with a bid of $35,503, was awarded the bid for the annual  laboratory testing requirements at the Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants for the fiscal year June 1, 2026 to May 31, 2027.

Also at the meeting, a resolution awarding the following bids for the Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant’s chemicals for the Fiscal Year June 1, 2026 to May 31, 2027, was approved. The bids are:

• Shrieve Chemical Company – Sodium Hydroxide at $1.77/gallon for 3600 gallon minimum.
• Holland Company Inc. – Alum at $2.20/gallon for 3300 gallon minimum.
• Slack Chemical Company – Sodium Hypochlorite Na at $3.72/gallon for 1500 gallon minimum, and $4.33/gallon for 400 gallon minimum.
• Brenntag Northeast LLC – Sodium Hypochlorite Na at $265.30/drum for 8 drum minimum.
• Univar Solutions USA LLC – Sodium Fluoride at $1.62/dry pounds delivered for 2,600 dry pounds, 1 pallet (40 bags) per order.
• Holland Company Inc. – Poly Aluminum Chloride or Equal at $3.25/gallon, 3300 gallon minimum, and $5.03/gallon, 1000 gallon minimum.
• Holland Company Inc. – Poly Aluminum Chloride or Equal at $5.97/gallon, 275 gallon tote.
• Slack Chemical Company – Phosphate at $17.92/gallon for 4-30 gallons.
• Applied Specialties Innovations – Liquid Polymer at $2.29/pound, $1,030.50/drum for a 450 pound drum.

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