Title
Requisition No. REQ-0009485
CEMS Replacement for Incinerators 7 & 8
O&M
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Agenda of: June 24, 2026
Item No.: 2026-221
Amount: $2,299,000.00
TO: The Honorable
Board of Directors
Great Lakes Water Authority
FROM: Suzanne R. Coffey, P.E.
Chief Executive Officer
Great Lakes Water Authority
DATE: June 5, 2026
RE: Requisition No. REQ-0009485
CEMS Replacement for Incinerators 7 & 8
Vendor: Commercial Contracting Corporation
Status: New Contract/PO
MOTION
Upon recommendation of Navid Mehram, Chief Operating Officer - Wastewater Operating Services, the Board of Directors (Board) of the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), authorizes the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to enter into Requisition No. REQ-0009485, "CEMS Replacement for Incinerators 7 & 8" with Commercial Contracting Corporation, at a cost not to exceed $2,299,000.00 for a duration of 549 days; and authorizes the CEO to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND
In 1990, the Clean Air Act of 1970 was substantially amended to require the continuous monitoring of air pollutant emissions from sewage sludge incinerators (SSIs). In anticipation of the 1990 amendments, Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) were installed for the Complex I and Complex II Incinerators in the late 1980s to continuously monitor oxygen, total hydrocarbons, and moisture. Due to equipment obsolescence and unreliability, the CEMS units were replaced in 2002 with units that are still in operation today.
JUSTIFICATION
The current CEMS at the Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF) are more than two decades old and require frequent maintenance, leading to a large amount of downtime. For example, between August 2020 to August 2024, the accumulated downtime due to CEMS failure was more than 5,000 hours, which significantly impacted the incinerators firm capacity. In the same period, CEMS Nos. 7 and 8 were found to be the most failure prone. Since the CEMS con...
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