HomeMy Public PortalAbout1984_12_12_R236The Town of Leesburg in Virginia
RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION:
PRESENTFD December 12, 1984
84-236 ADOPTED December 12, 1984
AUTHORIZING A DESIGN CONTRACT WITH CAMP, DRESSER & MCKEE FOR DE-
SIGN MODIFICATIONS TO THE TOWN'S WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT EX-
PANSION AND UPGRADING PROJECT
WHEREAS, the Environmental Protection Agency and the State Water Control
Board reviewed and approved the town's design of the town's sewage treatment plant
upgrade and expansion project and approved a Step III construction grant in the
amount of $6,096,260; and
WHEREAS, the bids received for the construction of the improvements on
October 31, 1984 exceeded the design engineers estimate by $2,361,500; and
WHEREAS, this Council has determined the construction of the sewage treatment
plant upgrade and expansion project is necessary for the town to meet Environ-
mental Protection Agency and the State Water Control Board sewage treatment
plant permit requirements and provide the needed capacity to complement the town's
existing water supply; and
WHEREAS, this Council continues to explore and analyze both funding alterna-
tives and potential plant construction cost savings which will improve the town's
capability to finance the needed improvements; and
WHEREAS, the town's construction engineers, Camp, Dresser & McKee, at the
Council's request, has submitted a proposal to design plant modifications in-
cluding the substitution of a shallow bed filter for the current deep bed filter
design and to substitute ultra violet disinfection for chlorination/dechlorina-
tion; and
WHEREAS, these design alternatives should result in significant cost savings
to the cost of the expansion and upgrading project without impairing the plant's
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AUTHORIZING A DESIGN CONTRACT WITH CAMP, DRESSER & MCKEE FOR DESIGN MODIFICATIONS
TO THE TOWN'S WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT EXPANSION AND UPGRADING PROJECT
capability to achieve the federal and state effluent requirements and without
the necessity for future non-grant funded modifications; and
WHEREAS, the State Water Control Board has encouraged a dialogue between
the town and the State Health Department to identify deletions and modifications
to the expansion and upgrading project which could lead to significant con-
struction cost savings; and
WHEREAS, the State Health Department has advised the town by letter that the
design modifications and process deletions identified in correspondence from the
town's construction engineers to the State Health Department should receive favor-
able review by that agency.
THEREFORE, RESOLVED by the Council of the Town of Leesburg in Virginia as
follows:
SECTION I. The manager shall enter into a contract with Camp, Dresser &
McKee for the design and construction engineering of a shallow bed filter and
ultra violet disinfection facility, reduction in the size of emergency generator
and equalization basin blowers and the coordination of the elimination of other
facilities as outlined in a proposal from Camp, Dresser & McKee dated November
30, 1984.
SECTION II. An appropriation is made from the unappropriated balance of
the Utility Fund to Account No. 8400.260.1, Filter/UV Design, in the amount of
$83,800 which shall remain in effect until the project is complete.
PASSED this 12th day of December
ATTE S T:
Clerk of Cfuncil
, 1984.
Robert E Sev~.l~a, Mayor
Town of l'.eesburg