BOARD AGENDA MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT:
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Consultant Agreement with TODD Groundwater to Provide Planning Services for the Safe Clean Water Project (D4) Ogier Ponds Feasibility Study - Project No. 26042002 (District 1).
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RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Approve the Consultant Agreement with TODD Groundwater for planning services for the Ogier Ponds Feasibility Study, for a not-to-exceed amount of $257,445.
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SUMMARY:
The Watershed Stewardship Planning Division has entered into Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Santa Clara County Parks Department (SCC Parks) to evaluate the feasibility for removal of Ogier Pond Quarry Complex from the main stem of Coyote Creek. The final MOA was executed March 1, 2016. The District's Safe Clean Water and Natural Flood Protection (SCW) special parcel tax, Priority D, project D4 Fish Habitat and Passage Improvement Project (Project), will fund the feasibility of separating the artificial instream impoundment from the creek utilizing a stepwise, integrated planning approach.
The approximately 368 acre site is owned in fee by SCC Parks. Due to lack of funding to evaluate the feasibility of creek restoration, SCC Parks is agreeable to the evaluation of the site for use as a water supply/flood attenuation facility as long as SCC Parks' primary objective for recreational use is maintained (if the site is deemed feasible for pond separation and creek restoration). With that premise in mind, staff began an investigation into the feasibility of a "joint use facility" for environmental enhancement, recreation, groundwater recharge, and/or flood attenuation benefits that could be attained from separation of the ponds and realignment of the creek channel.
The Consultant Agreement being presented here for Board approval is one element of the larger feasibility study. The information obtained through execution of this that agreement, a recharge analysis and development of a water budget, will be integrated into the larger ana...
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