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WATER AND WASTEWATER
AGENDA
WATER & WASTEWATER COMMITTEE MEETING
THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2005
A meeting of the Fayetteville Water & Sewer Committee will be held on June 9, 2005 at
5:00 p.m. in Room 326 of the City Administration Building located at 113 West
Mountain Street, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
1. WSIP UPDATE
PowerPoint handout.
2. UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS-Identification, assessment, removal.
2. SPRINGDALE EASEMENT
Springdale Water Utilities, Springdale, Arkansas requests purchase of a utility
easement across a triangular tract of land to extend a gravity sewer and two
forcemains from the Enclave Subdivision lift station to Clear Creek Drive.
Springdale Water Utilities expects to pay the appraised fee simple value for the
easement.
3. RJN CONSTRUCTION PHASE SERVICES AMENDMENT - This amendment
to the Design and Bidding Phase Services Contract, presently in place, is for
construction phase inspection, engineering, and consulting services for the west side
sewer line construction, Hamestring Lift Station Construction, and the Gregg Street
Lift Station rehabilitation, (WL-1, WL-2, WL-3, WL-4, WL-5, WL-6, WL-7) in the
amount of $1,659,090.00. Review spreadsheet, discuss, and vote.
4. SANITARY SEWER REHABILITATION
a) Farmington Sewer Rehabilitation. We intend to award a construction contract to
T-G Excavating, in the amount of $144,444.00, for the sanitary sewer manhole
rehabilitation in the Farmington Area. RJN, the Engineer, has reviewed the bids,
checked references, and recommends award of this contract. The contract cost is
95% of the Engineer’s Estimate of $151,512.50. I plan to bring the contract to the
City Council for approval on 19 July.
b) Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Presentation to Water/Sewer Committee. I will
present a 30 minute presentation defining what sewer rehabilitation does, why it is
necessary, and how it relates to sewer overflow elimination and the overall
wastewater business.
5. 24” WATER LINE REPLACEMENT. On 1 June we experienced another large
water main break on the 24” water line located in the north-south easement west of
and parallel to West Custer. This main has experienced numerous leaks over the years
due to external corrosion, both in this area and in the area along Lewis Lane west of
Morningside Drive. The project to replace these sections of pipe has been in the CIP
for years; it was the highest priority unfunded project in the 2004 CIP. The severity
of the leaks has increased significantly in the last two years. Prior to that time, the
leaks were (relatively) small, due to holes in the pipe generally less than 2" diameter.
We have had three leaks in the last two years that are significantly larger, with linear
splits up to 8' long or large chunks (2' x 3') of pipe wall being blown out. These
larger leaks significantly increase the risk of property damage to the homes behind
which the pipe is installed. Due to this, we are moving forward on this project at this
time. On 7 June, an engineer selection committee selected McGoodwin, Williams
and Yates to perform design work on this project. A draft scope of work is attached.
The City Engineer’s office will execute project management on this project. We
expect to bring this contract to the City Council for approval on 19 July.
6. WATER AND SEWER OPERATIONS STUDY AND RATE AUDIT. Thursday,
2 June, Tom Gould of HDR presented HDR's audit report of the 2003 Water & Sewer
Rate Study performed by Black & Veatch to the Operations and Rate Study Audit
working group. HDR conclusions:
1) the rate setting techniques used in the 2003 water and sewer rate study conformed
to "generally accepted" rate making methods;
2) while the rate study documented the approach and general assumptions used in the
Study it did not provide adequate discussion or documentation to fully understand
important assumptions within the study;
3) the use of sales tax proceeds and their relationship to the final rates was not clearly
discussed or documented within the report; and
4) the rate of return (6%) used for the water ands sewer analysis for the outside city
and wholesale customers was reasonable.
NEXT MEETING: June 14, 2005 At 6:30 p.m. CDT
END OF AGENDA