BOARD AGENDA MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT:
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Approve Agreement with Kleinfelder, Inc. for the Purified Water Program-Preliminary Geotechnical Pipeline Alignment Project, under the Indirect Potable Water Reuse Project No. 91304001, CAS File No. 5167, for a Not-to-Exceed Fee of $1,107,408 (Cities of Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose and Campbell) (Districts 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7).
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RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Approve the Consultant Services Agreement with Kleinfelder, Inc. for the Purified Water Program - Preliminary Geotechnical Pipeline Alignment Project, for a not-to-exceed fee of $1,107,408.
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SUMMARY:
In June 2020, the Board directed staff to implement the Purified Water Program (Program), also known as the Expedited Purified Water Program, and expedite the procurement process for selecting a Public Private Partnership (P3) to implement the Program, with a release of a Request for Proposal (RFP) scheduled for the fall of 2021. Prior to the RFP advertisement, an Environmental Impact Report will be prepared to evaluate potential impacts associated with the Program, and several preliminary geotechnical investigations will be completed to inform potential P3 proposers of site conditions along the proposed pipeline alignments. Staff recommends Board approval of a consultant agreement for the Preliminary Geotechnical Pipeline Alignment Project.
Background
Santa Clara Valley Water District's (Valley Water) Board of Directors established a goal to increase recycled water use such that reuse supply meets 10 percent of total Countywide demands by 2025 and up to 24,000 acre-feet per year (AFY) by 2040. The first phase of the Program has been targeted to be 10,000 AFY based on recent water supply planning projections to 2040. In order to meet this goal, Valley Water plans to build an Advanced Water Purification Facility (AWPF) that will use advanced treatment processes to treat the tertiary effluent from a wastewater treatment facilit...
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