(KNZA)--The Hiawatha City Commission has rejected the bids received for phase II of the city’s sanitary sewer improvement project.

That came during this week’s meeting after the two bids came in well above the engineer’s estimate.  The lowest bid was about $580,000 over the estimate. 

Galen Lay with TREKK Design Group was directed to re-bid the project with a couple of alternatives in hopes of obtaining lower bids, with an award date of no later than May 16th.