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Consider a memorandum/resolution authorizing the award of a Professional Services Agreement with Pipeline Analysis, LLC, for the Phase 5 Sewer Line Sanitary Sewer Evaluation Survey.
SUMMARY
DATE: June 19, 2018
TO: Ronald L. Olson, City Manager
FROM: David Olson, Executive Director of Public Works
SUBJECT: Authorize the Award of a Professional Services Agreement with Pipeline Analysis, LLC, for the Phase 5 Sewer Line Sanitary Sewer Evaluation Survey
BACKGROUND AND FINDINGS:
On November 14, 2011, the City of Killeen was officially accepted into the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) Initiative Program. The agreement with TCEQ requires the City to follow an SSO Initiative Action Plan in which the City’s entire sanitary sewer collection system is evaluated and defects are rehabilitated over a 10-year period.
Pipeline Analysis has completed the Manhole Inspection Phases 1-3 of the City’s SSO Initiative Action Plan. Defects were found in 2,727 manholes and cleanouts. The manhole rehabilitation work for Phases 1-3 is now complete. The surveyed data from manhole inspections has been interfaced with the City’s GIS maps. Pipeline Analysis has also completed Phases 1-4 of the Sewer Line Sanitary Sewer Evaluation Survey (SSES) which included the evaluation of 1,975,428 feet of sewer line. The TCEQ SSO Initiative Action Plan requires the implementation of the Phase 5 Sewer Line SSES in the second quarter of 2018.
THE ALTERNATIVES CONSIDERED:
1. The final phase of the Sewer Line SSES could be delayed or left incomplete, but this would mean the City would not fulfill their 10 year agreement with the TCEQ.
2. City staff could pursue a professional services agreement with a different sewer evaluation company for this final phase of SSES, but City staff feels this alternative will not serve the City’s best interes...
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