BOARD AGENDA MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT:
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Fiscal Year 2020 Schedule Adjustments to Projects in Safe, Clean Water and Natural Flood Protection Program.
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RECOMMENDATION:
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Approve Fiscal Year 2020 Safe, Clean Water Project Schedule Adjustments.
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SUMMARY:
Safe, Clean Water and Natural Flood Protection Program (Safe, Clean Water Program) project schedules change due to various factors, including coordination with long-term operations and maintenance pipeline shutdown schedule, additional time required to work with external stakeholders, the unanticipated and significant economic and practical impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, discovery and recovery of sensitive environmental resources, additional time to redesign elements of a project to minimize construction impacts to adjacent residents, and delays in securing external funding.
Except for the Upper Guadalupe River Flood Protection Project, the schedule adjustments presented (Attachment 1) are to align the Safe, Clean Water project schedules with the Capital Improvement Program that the Board approved on May 26, 2020. For the Upper Guadalupe River Flood Protection and the Coyote Creek Flood Protection projects, staff is recommending the Board approve the revised schedule separately now.
These schedule adjustments will be included in the Safe, Clean Water annual report for Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20). The reasons for the schedule adjustments are detailed below:
Project A3: Pipeline Reliability
The original Pipeline Reliability Project schedule had an estimated start date of FY25 and completion date of FY27. In FY17, the project was incorporated into Valley Water's 10-Year Pipeline Inspection and Rehabilitation Program to ensure coordination with the long-term operations and maintenance pipeline shutdown schedule. This advanced the project, with construction to begin in FY19 and completed in FY25. As a result of the latest updates to the Pipeline Inspection and Rehabilitation Program, develop...
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