Agenda Item Wording:
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Authorize the City Manager to award an emergency contract to Carollo of Fresno, CA in the amount of $515,400 for the Condition Assessment, Facility Plan, and Master Plan Update at the City's Water Reclamation Facility. Also, authorize the appropriation of $550,000 from the Wastewater Enterprise Fund (431).
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Deadline for Action: 4/3/2023
Submitting Department: Public Works
Contact Name and Phone Number: Nick Bartsch, Public Works Director, nick.bartsch@visalia.city, 713-4052
Department Recommendation:
Staff recommends that Council authorize the City Manager to award an emergency contract to Carollo of Fresno, CA in the amount of $515,400 for the Condition Assessment, Facility Plan, and Master Plan Update at the City's Water Reclamation Facility. Also, authorize the appropriation of $550,000 from the Wastewater Enterprise Fund (431) to cover potential full costs of the project.
Background Discussion:
In 2018, the City completed a $150 million upgrade to the City's Water Reclamation Facility (WRF). This project made various improvements throughout the plant utilizing a tertiary treatment process, thus creating the ability to produce California Title 22 compliant recycled water using membrane bioreactor (MBR) treatment, and ultraviolet (UV) disinfection technologies. This upgrade was necessary as a result of the Central Valley Water Board's adoption of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit (NPDES No. CA0079189) under Waste Discharge Requirements (WDR) Order R5-2014-0076, which increased regulation on processed wastewater discharge into Mill Creek in 2014. Therefore, these improvements to the facility allowed for treatment and disinfection for up to 22.0 million gallons of wastewater per day (mgd) and the rerouting of the plant's effluent to alternative destinations and uses. The treatment processes remove greater ...
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