CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has selected Speegle Construction II, Inc. of Cocoa, Fla., for the revitalization of Kennedy Space Center’s Water and Wastewater Systems Project.

The total value of the firm-fixed price contract is $6.97 million. The performance period, which begins in August 2011, is 540 days. Speegle’s scope of work will include, but is not limited to, replacement of existing asbestos cement water mains, water main valves and connections. Additional work to be performed consists of the installation of a 500,000 gallon pre-stressed concrete ground storage reservoir and a new water pump station.

The company will install and replace water quality analyzers, gravity sewer systems, sewer manhole linings and associated electrical and communications equipment. The project is scheduled to begin in fall 2011.

Speegle will have work spanning across Kennedy. It will include the industrial area near the center’s headquarters building, the Vehicle Assembly Building and Launch Pads 39A and 39B.

For more information about NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/kennedy