Flower Mound Farms' Sewer Rebid Is Happening Now — Here's Why the First Round Failed

If you live along Red Oak Lane in the Flower Mound Farms subdivision, the wait is not over — but it has moved.

The town is going back out to bid this month on a sewer rehabilitation project covering 6,700 feet of 8-inch sewer line and 800 feet of 15-inch sewer line running through your neighborhood, south of FM 3040. Approximately 2,600 feet of 6-inch sewer will also be upsized to 8-inch to meet current town standards. This is not a patch job. It is a wholesale upgrade using cured-in-place-pipe lining, which rehabilitates the pipe from the inside out without tearing up every street.

So why are we only getting to this now? Bids were received and staff reviewed the responses — but due to higher-than-anticipated bid amounts and a lack of bidders, the project is being rebid in July 2026. Too expensive. Not enough contractors interested. Both at once.

Those two words — "lack of bidders" — deserve a moment. The design has been in the works for years. A professional services agreement for design-phase services with Plummer, Inc., in the amount of $48,700 was approved back on January 4, 2021. That is over five years from contract to second bid attempt. Meanwhile, a BuyBoard contract for sanitary sewer CCTV and cleaning services was approved on May 5, 2025, by Town Council, and that sewer line cleaning and video work is now complete. The pipes have been scoped. The design is done. The only thing standing between Red Oak Lane and new sewer infrastructure is finding a contractor willing to do it at a price the town can accept.

That is not a small thing. Construction costs in North Texas have stayed stubbornly high, and the rebid landing in the same place — too few bidders, too much money — would force a harder conversation about scope, budget, or both. Every additional year the old 6-inch lines sit in the ground is another year the neighborhood cannot fully build out to current standards.

Watch for the contract award after the July bid closes. A bid posting means the process restarted. A contract award means it is actually happening. And a notice to proceed means someone will finally be on the ground on Red Oak Lane.

Questions about the project can go to the town's Capital Engineering team at 972-874-6310 or engineering-cip@flower-mound.com.