Title
Contract No. 2304319
Drinking Water Monitoring Network Equipment Maintenance & Data Management
O&M
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Agenda of: January 24, 2024
Item No.: 2023-493
Amount: $53,934.00
TO: The Honorable
Board of Directors
Great Lakes Water Authority
FROM: Suzanne R. Coffey, P.E.
Chief Executive Officer
Great Lakes Water Authority
DATE: December 29, 2023
RE: Contract No. 2304319
Drinking Water Monitoring Network Equipment Maintenance & Data
Management
Vendor: Environmental Consulting & Technology, Inc.
MOTION
Upon recommendation of Cheryl Porter, Chief Operating Officer - Water and Field Services, the Board of Directors (Board) of the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), authorizes the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to enter into Contract No. 2304319, "Drinking Water Monitoring Network Equipment Maintenance & Data Management" with Environmental Consulting & Technology Inc., at a cost not to exceed $53,934.00 for a duration of five (5) years; and authorizes the CEO to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND
The Huron to Erie Corridor includes the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, and the Detroit River. The municipal water treatment plants serving portions of Macomb, Oakland, St. Clair, and Wayne counties have successfully instituted a one-of-a-kind real-time monitoring network aimed at source water protection. The network, which is comprised of instruments detecting hydrocarbons, organic carbon, as well as traditional physical parameters (Turbidity, pH, Temperature, Chlorophyll, Dissolved Oxygen, Conductivity and Blue Green Algae) provides an early warning system to water plant operators on raw water quality issues that may impact water treatment plant operations.
As the system is operational, the focus is to sustain the system.
GLWA is participating in the Huron to Erie Corridor Drinking Water Monitoring Network. This network includes a partnership of the drinking water plants along this corrido...
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