Title
Contract No. 2100239
Water Resource Recovery Facilities Structural Evaluation and Repairs
Vendor: Kokosing Industrial, Inc
Body
Agenda of: August 24, 2022
Item No.: 2022-332
Amount: $12,639,000.00
TO: The Honorable
Board of Directors
Great Lakes Water Authority
FROM: Suzanne R. Coffey, P.E.
Chief Executive Officer
Great Lakes Water Authority
DATE: July 29, 2022
RE: Contract No. 2100239
Water Resource Recovery Facilities Structural Evaluation and Repairs
Vendor: Kokosing Industrial, Inc.
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 Contract No. 2100239, "Water Resource Recovery Facilities Structural Evaluation and Repairs" with Kokosing Industrial, Inc., at a cost not to exceed $12,639,000.00 for a duration of 1,735 days; and authorizes the CEO to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND
The Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF) was built in the 1940s and is the largest single-site wastewater treatment facility in the United States with a primary treatment capacity of 1,700 million gallons per day (MGD). The WRRF includes 18 primary clarifiers, 25 circular secondary clarifiers, six primary sludge thickeners (Complex A), six secondary sludge thickeners (Complex B), six sludge storage tanks (Complex A), four covered aeration decks, a chlorination facility for effluent disinfection, a Dechlorination facility, and an administration building.
In the summer of 2021, GLWA initiated structural inspections of the WRRF Facility by a structural engineering firm which resulted in the identification of various improvements needed for each facility to ensure the resiliency and proper operation of our facilities for the next 30 years.
The inspection identified several items including settling brick/block walls ...
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