A contractor’s guaranteed maximum price for Ouray’s new water treatment plant is within the city’s budget, which should allow construction to begin in early May.

City Administrator Silas Clarke told the Plaindealer that Aslan Construction, the construction manager atrisk for the design of the plant, provided him a price of a little more than $12.6 million on Monday. That figure doesn’t include $250,000 for construction oversight by Element Engineering, the project engineer, and another $2...