Title
Resolution to Adopt the 14 Mile Road Transmission Main Loop - FY 2020 Drinking Water Revolving Fund Project Plan
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Agenda of: April 24, 2019
Item No.: 2019-165
Amount:
TO: The Honorable
Board of Directors
Great Lakes Water Authority
FROM: Sue F. McCormick
Chief Executive Officer
Great Lakes Water Authority
DATE: April 24, 2019
RE: Resolution to Adopt the 14 Mile Road Transmission Main Loop - FY 2020 Drinking Water Revolving Fund (DWRF) Project Plan
MOTION
Upon recommendation of Nicolette Bateson, Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer, Financial Services and Cheryl Porter, Chief Operating Officer - Water & Field Services, the Board of Directors (Board) of the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), approves the attached Resolution to adopt the 14 Mile Road Transmission Main Loop - FY 2020 Drinking Water Revolving Fund (DWRF) Project Plan; and authorizes the CEO to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND
The "14 Mile Water Transmission Main Loop Project - (CIP# 122013)" includes the 14 Mile Transmission Main that currently serves West Bloomfield Township, Farmington Hills, Commerce Township, Novi, Walled Lake, and Wixom. It is a single feed transmission system. If a disruption to service were to occur on this transmission main, many of those serviced along this main would experience a complete loss of pressure and flow. This project would provide a transmission main loop to the 14 Mile system to increase redundancy on this branch of the system.
The project is comprised of design and construction of 6-7 Miles of transmission main from 8 Mile Road to 14 Mile Road along the Halsted/Haggerty Road corridor in order to back-feed the 14 Mile Transmission system during a break in the transmission system along 14 Mile. The work will also include connections to the yard piping and reservoir fill line at the Haggerty Booster Station as well as a control valve to regulate flows along the transmi...
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