Amador County – The Sutter Creek City Council and Amador Regional Sanitation Authority released a “Request For Proposals” for a municipal Wastewater Master Plan last month, with proposals due Sept. 29.
City Manager Sean Rabe said the City Council approved the Request For Proposals (RFP) “with some slight modifications. None of them materially affect the RFP” and just add “background information.” The ARSA board approved the RFP and it was released Friday, Aug. 26.
The RFP in part said the city is “seeking Request for Proposals from qualified wastewater engineering and/or planning firms to provide a two-phase review and update of both the city’s draft wastewater plan and ARSA’s draft master plan.” The city seeks a contract directly with the firm, and the proposals are due no later than Sept. 29.
In early August, the Sutter Creek City Council formed a subcommittee of its Sewer Committee to bring back a concise report on the various issues the city is facing for its wastewater plant and disposal system. The city also received a 5-year notice by the city of Ione to terminate city wastewater flow to Ione.
The council directed staff on Aug. 15 to release the Request For Proposals upon approval by the board of directors of the Amador Regional Sanitation Authority. Rabe in a report to the council said the “RFP reflects the framework that the council approved at the Aug. 1 meeting and has been reviewed and approved for release” by City Attorney Derek Cole and the City Sanitary Engineer. It required formal ARSA board approval because several components relate to ARSA.
The extensive RFP project description and scope work includes 11 different tasks in Phase 1 alone. The first is evaluating the “feasibility and cost of new storage required” in the “vicinity of Gold Rush Ranch,” and “in the upper ARSA system … at and above Henderson Reservoir.” Another is evaluating “capital and operational costs” of “maintaining the status quo” of the “current ARSA service level.”
A third is to “evaluate the cost of upgrading the existing ARSA system to increase capacity.” A fourth looks at capital and operation costs of a pumping and transmission system between the existing city wastewater treatment plant and Gold Rush, and evaluating “four different effluent scenarios.” Those scenarios are raw wastewater, primary effluent, secondary effluent, and piping raw sewage from the Martell area to a tertiary plant at Gold Rush, “while maintaining the city’s current plant for the existing city.”
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