The Department of Environmental Protection registered a $54,430,000 contract with Inter Contracting Corp. to reconstruct the Avenue U pumping station, according to NYC Comptroller's Checkbook NYC. The contract runs from April 7, 2026 to August 21, 2031 — more than five years — under PIN 82625B0039001.
The award went through competitive sealed bidding, the standard route for a job this size, and Checkbook NYC lists it as Non-M/WBE. At $54.4 million, it's more than 15 times the combined value of the other three contracts the city registered in the same batch — Housing Preservation and Development's $3.45 million NYCHA waste yard job at Whitman, a $500,000 emergency demolition on Jefferson Avenue, and a $130,000 asbestos abatement at an FDNY engine house.
Pumping stations like Avenue U move stormwater and sewage through Brooklyn's combined sewer system, and DEP has been steadily working through a backlog of these facilities, many of which date to the mid-20th century. A five-year reconstruction window signals this isn't a patch job — it's likely a full mechanical and structural overhaul, the kind of work that keeps a GC's crews, and its subs, busy through the back half of the decade.
Inter Contracting Corp. now carries one of the larger single DEP construction awards logged this year on the Comptroller's portal. For mechanical, electrical, and sitework subs working the wastewater sector, a six-year contract term means staged subcontracting opportunities will likely follow as the job moves through design, demolition, and rebuild phases rather than hitting the market all at once.