Title
GLWA-CS-299
GLWA-CSO Facilities Needs Assessment
CIP# 260600 /BCE Score: 90.6
Body
Agenda of: May 22, 2019
Item No.: 2019-178
Amount: $5,415,953.00
TO: The Honorable
Board of Directors
Great Lakes Water Authority
FROM: Sue F. McCormick
Chief Executive Officer
Great Lakes Water Authority
DATE: April 23, 2019
RE: Contract No. GLWA-CS-299
GLWA-CSO Facilities Needs Assessment
Vendor: Jacobs Consultants, Inc.
MOTION
Upon recommendation of Navid Mehram, Chief Operating Officer - Wastewater Operations, the Board of Directors (Board) of the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), authorizes the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to enter into Contract No. GLWA-CS-299, "GLWA-CSO Facilities Needs Assessment" with Jacobs Consultants, Inc., at a cost not to exceed $5,415,953.00 for a duration of twenty four (24) Months; and authorizes the CEO to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND
The Great Lakes Water Authority operates and maintains nine (9) Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Facilities. GLWA leases, operates, and maintains eight of the nine CSO facilities from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department as identified in a "Water and Sewer System Lease Document" which is not included as a reference document because it is publicly available on GLWA's website. The one CSO Facility which is not leased but is operated and maintained by GLWA through the Shared Service Agreement is the Belle Isle CSO Facility.
The average age of the CSO Facilities is over 16 years old. These facilities were all essentially demonstration facilities as a part of the Long Term CSO Control Plan. Therefore, each facility has slightly different equipment and technology for which it utilizes to treat combined sewer overflow. This creates more difficult maintenance and operations because each facility is different. Additionally, the facilities have not had a detail needs assessment performed against them since the...
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