HomeMy Public PortalAbout20070111WSCommMinutes.pdfWATER SEWER MEETING
5:30pm 1/11/07
Call to Order
Members Present were
Eddie Crone
Wanda Doyle
Paul Wolfe
Jan Fox
George Reese
Bill Mitchell
Jennifer Oetgen
Richard Marlow
Approval of Minutes – 1st Doyle, 2nd Wolfe - Unanimous
Eddie Crone introduced Bill Mitchell – new Water Sewer Manager
Progress report on Hwy 80 – Richard Marlow of IAM Construction
All water mains, sewer lines are all in pressure test soon. 99% complete by next week.
Change orders #5 and #6.
Change order #6 is not being done. That was to pick-up down to 240 feet to the last house
before Breeezy Point.
The original bid is completed for those service connections.
Change Order #5 was to add a manhole and 3 service connections for the homes down
the private drive.
There is an additional quote for change order #6 to reduce by $11,000. It would still be
over $30,000.
890ft from Cason to the closest gravity fed main. This cannot be tied in without the use of
grinder pumps.
Fox- We do not have money in the budget for this project – the main point was to get the
commercial businesses onto the sewer. – we need businesses off of septic. How much are
you willing to raise water and sewage rates to accommodate all these little $30,000 and
$40,000 jobs. We’ve got aerators, Lift Station #9 and #7. Budget is tight. We need to plan
for the extension.
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Marlow only $3000-$4000 to remobilize.
HGBD
1. Fort Screven - the plans to EPD and then we will get budget cost estimate by the
end of May. They will do a take - off from the plans for us.
Fort Screven Phase I
2. Ready to bid this summer. Costs are down. Contractors to hold prices for 30 days.
Only need council approval and he can lock in price.
Crone - Lift Station #9 – progress report
Marlow- Lift Station #9 - on Fort Ave is on bypass now. They have the well dry and will
inspect tomorrow. Southeast Pipe Survey will coat (line-1 inch thick) the well, all
mechanicals installed in 5 days. Marlow will let George know when it is ready for.
Crone – Aerators
Oetgen - Aerators are in production – they will be out for a site visit next week and will
take measurement. Anticipate mid February delivery.
Schleicher – About the aerators. I have been talking to Bill and George and also Joe
Wilson about Master Plan. Buying aerators now is old technology and would like to find
how much additional growth would the Water/Sewer plant (basin) have to grow in order
to not have to use that old design?
Wolff – Focus the design on maximum build-out which is another 1200 total taps.
Another 360,000 gallons.
Oetgen – design goes to 1.5.
Schleicher – Some communities require rain barrels.
Schleicher - When the city upgrades the treatment plant, would that be the time to think
about purple pipes down Bay St and also maybe the wetland area and get permits to cut
down on our flow of discharge from the treatment plant?
Lovett – what will you do with re-use water? If we could get EPD to approve spraying
the reuse water on the sand dunes -that would be wonderful.
Wolff - Former wetland adjacent to the water treatment plant would absorb a lot of it.
Schleicher – Former wetland and condos on Bay St that use city water for landscaping.
Wolff – Racquet Club uses a ton of reuse water.
Schleicher - Get a grant that would be piggyback to the expansion for purple pipe.
Lovett – Great use for the reuse water and it’s the right thing to do. Plan for either storing
the water for when it rains for a week and you can’t spray and then spray it when it is not
raining. The best option is to have the discharge to the ocean and give the people the
opportunity to use that water. Don’t pay sewer fees. More economical than to use city
water.
Wolff – Do some Incentives for people to use the reuse water.
Schleicher – Going in right direction to have these discussions.
Lovett – Talked to EPD this week about your waste load allocation. The first step in
expanding your waste water treatment plant is to request for a waste load allocation
which is they tell you how much poluntants you can discharge into your receiving stream.
They were thinking that we would discharge into the Savannah River. Pushing to have
EPD to say that we are discharging into the ocean with no local impact to Savannah
River. Trying to get permit changed.
Crone – Ask Mark Boswell about change order.
Boswell - what happened is we didn’t get the survey all the way to the marsh. That strip
that we were working on showed one access. It did not show that there four houses down
there.
Boswell- it is because it is a public utility
Doyle – move to approve change order.
Wolff 2nd,
Fox– Special meeting about South Parking lot.
Wolff – Move to adjourn.
Doyle 2nd. Unanimous.
Respectfully Submitted by Beverly Roberts