BOARD AGENDA MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT:
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Public Hearing on the Engineer's Report and Resolution Approving the Engineer's Report on the John D. Morgan Park Monitoring Well Project, Project No. 91304001 (Campbell) (District 4).
*PREVIOUSLY LISTED AS ITEM 2.7.
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RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
A. Conduct Public Hearing on the Engineer’s Report;
B. Adopt the Resolution APPROVING THE ENGINEER’S REPORT FOR THE JOHN D. MORGAN PARK MONITORING WELL PROJECT; and
C. Approve the Project.
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SUMMARY:
The objective of the John D. Morgan Park Monitoring Well Project is to construct up to five monitoring wells to support the District’s Expedited Purified Water Program, which includes potential indirect potable reuse (IPR) using purified water for recharge in the District’s Los Gatos ponds. The proposed Project will facilitate groundwater monitoring needed to satisfy state permitting requirements for IPR projects.
The Project is located in the southern parking lot of the City of Campbell’s John D. Morgan Park. It entails drilling two borings to a maximum depth of 400 feet, retrieving soil cores for analysis, and constructing up to five monitoring wells at various depths in the two borings. To comply with the City of Campbell’s noise ordinance, a temporary sound wall will be constructed, which will require temporary restriping to allow continued use of the parking lot during drilling. The Project also includes parking lot restriping and resurfacing following completion of drilling per the City’s requirements.
Engineer’s Report
Section 12 of the District Act requires the Board to conduct a public hearing to hear testimony on a project when: 1) the project is new construction, and 2) the project is funded by a single or joint zone of benefit. As the proposed Project meets both conditions, staff prepared an Engineer’s Report (Attachment 2) for the purpose of public disclosure. The Notice of Public Hearing for the Engineer’s Report is provided in Attachment 3.
Prior Board Actions
On April 28, 2015, the Board authorized the CEO to negotiate and execute several professional consulting agreements to support the Expedited Purified Water Program. This included an agreement with Todd Groundwater for IPR Groundwater Studies for groundwater modeling, monitoring well construction, dissolution studies, and other related work. It has been determined that monitoring well construction and related site preparation/restoration work constitutes a public works project, which requires competitive bidding. The monitoring well construction and related site preparation/restoration work will therefore be removed from the contract with Todd Groundwater, and the John D. Morgan Park Monitoring Well Project is now a separate project within the Expedited Purified Water Program.
On July 12, 2016, the Board set a date and time for a Public Hearing on the Engineer’s Report.
Next Steps
If the Board approves the Project, the upcoming Project milestones are:
A. Staff recommendation to the Board to adopt plans and specifications and authorize construction bidding: August 2016
B. Board award of construction contract: October 2016
C. Construction initiation: November 2016
D. Construction completion: March 2017
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
The estimated cost to design and construct the proposed Project is $740,000 (in 2016 dollars). Related funds are included in the FY 17 budget for 91304001, which is funded by the Water Enterprise Fund (100%).
CEQA:
The proposed project is exempt from CEQA Guidelines Section 15306, Class 6, which exempts basic data collection. A Notice of Exemption has been prepared and recorded.
ATTACHMENTS:
Attachment 1: Resolution
Attachment 2: Engineer’s Report
Attachment 3: Notice of Public Hearing
Attachment 4: PowerPoint
UNCLASSIFIED MANAGER:
Manager
Garth Hall, 408-630-2750