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COUMCIL MEETING JUN 2 s 1999 REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION DATE: June 28, 1999 Cl I Y uriU/\c ITEM NO Department Approval: Name Gregory A. Gappa Title Director of Public Services Administrator Reviewed:Agenda Section: Engineer’s Report Item Description: Purchase of Water from Spring Park for Navarre Water Plant Rehabilitation During the Navarre Water Plant Rehabilitation, water for the Navarre system was supplied by the City of Spring Park. Because all of the pumps, piping, wiring and control systems in the plant were removed and replaced, it would have been ver}’ difficult to supply water through the treatment plant. With temporary piping configurations, we could have only supplied unfiltered water. This would have increased the project construction costs and time for completion. Also, the plant is small for the amount of filtering and softening equipment inplace, and working around a temporary piping system would have been extra difficult. Spring Park provides Iron and Manganese removal filtration for their water, so our users were provided with filtered water. Our temporary water would have been unfiltered and the high concentrations of Iron and Manganese in the water would have resulted in water quality problems and complaints. Even though the Spring Park water was filtered, we still received numerous complaints about the unsoitened water. The water sharing agreement between Orono and Spring Park contains a provision that any water sold between the Cities will be billed at the average of the two City s' rates. The average of the two Citys' rates is $1.93/1,000 Gallons. We used 38,599,892 gallons of water from October 1998 to May 1999 for a total cost of $74,523.07. Part of this cost is offset by the savings in operating costs such as electricity and chemicals from not pumping and treating the water. We are recommending payment of this bill to the City of Spring Park for purchase of water during the Navarre Water Treatment Plant Rehabilitation project. COUNCIL ACTION REQUESTED: Motion to approve payment of invoice from the City of Spring Park in the amount $74,523.07 for purchase of water during the Navarre Water Treatment Plant Rehabilitation project with payment to be made from the Water Operating Fund, Line Item 601-49400-387 (Intergovernmental Services) with a budget adjustment completed to reflect this expendimre. 1