ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from City Manager and Director of Public Works with a Request to Approve AMENDMENT #6 to AGREEMENT #07-040 (the 2007 Professional Services Agreement with AMEC ENVIRONMENT & INFRASTRUCTURE, INC. [Formerly MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc.]) with an Effective Date of June 6, 2014, and a Completion Date of December 31, 2014, for a Total Additional Compensation Amount Not to Exceed $370,000.00, to Assist the City in the Development and Negotiation of a Long-Term Control Plan to Meet the Requirements of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit for the City's COMBINED SEWER OUTFALLS.
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BACKGROUND: The City of Peoria's combined sewer overflows (CSO's) have been regulated by USEPA and IEPA for over 25 years. This regulation is through a permit in the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES). The permit is renewable every five years. When the City of Peoria's permit was issued in June, 2006, the City was required to develop a Long Term Control Plan (LTCP) to address the impact of CSO's.
Since 2006, the City has continued the negotiations with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and Department of Justice (DOJ) including review of technical documents submitted by the USEPA for a proposed LTCP. The reviews as well as responses of these technical documents have required the expertise of skilled experts in the field, consultants comprising of the AMEC team.
In 2010, the City was presented with a LTCP with a "gray" (tanks and tunnels) solution that posed potential liability risk, undue financial burden, and unreasonable disruption to the City and its infrastructure. Recently, the City was successful in investigating a solution that incorporates green infrastructure.
During the remainder of 2014 and during early 2015, LTCP project focus will be on further refining the green infrastructure solution and financial analyses and renewing the public involv...
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