REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
December 18, 2014
FROM: THOMAS C. ESQUEDA, Director
Department of Public Utilities
THROUGH: MARTIN A. QUERIN, PE, Assistant Director
Department of Public Utilities - Water Division
BY: MICHAEL CARBAJAL, Chief Engineering Technician
Department of Public Utilities - Water Division
SUBJECT
Title
Approve Amendment No. 2 with Live Oak Associates to provide professional services for the environmental investigative studies and permitting support services for the Friant-Kern Raw Water Pipeline Project for an amount not to exceed $48,000
Body
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends Council authorize the Director of Public Utilities to execute Amendment No. 2 with Live Oak Associates for additional environmental investigative studies and permitting support services for the Friant-Kern Raw Water Pipeline Project.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Department of Public Utilities, Water Division, is finalizing the design of the Friant-Kern Raw Water Pipeline to deliver raw water from the Friant-Kern Canal to the Northeast Surface Water Treatment Facility (NESWTF). With bidding scheduled to begin in late 2015, acquisition of permits for this pipeline project is necessary. Live Oak Associates has been very instrumental in working with the permitting agencies to provide the information and studies to obtain the necessary long lead time permits.
BACKGROUND
Presently, the City's contract with the United States Bureau of Reclamation for Central Valley Project (CVP) surface water, travels nearly 55 miles in open canals from Friant Dam (Millerton Lake) to the NESWTF. The proposed Project consists of the construction and operation of a 5.6-mile raw water pipeline. The new pipeline reroutes the CVP water directly to the NESWTF and will eliminate nearly 47 miles from the conveyance distance. The Project will convey water in an enclosed system and greatly reduce the threat to water quality, in otherwise open canals which are...
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