Amador County – The Amador Water Agency board of directors Thursday will consider $228,000 in analyses for the Ione water treatment plant and the Tanner water treatment plant. Staff in a memo recommends board approval of $134,000 through the end of the current fiscal year to study the plant in Ione, and another $94,000 to study Tanner in Sutter Creek, to be spent in 2010-2011. Staff recommends approving a contract with Stantec Consulting. The AWA Engineering Committee – President Bill Condrashoff and Director Terence Moore – could not reach an agreement on a recommendation for the full board, after the agency issued Request For Proposal packets to 6 companies in August 2009, and only 2 companies responded. Operations and Engineering departments were authorized by the AWA board to analyze the 2 companies, Stantec and RBF, with Stantec leading the rankings. AWA Engineer John R. Griffin in a report to the board said the “agency retained a design consultant for the design of the Regional Tanner” water treatment plant, “planned to be built to approximately 8 million gallons a day in Phase 1 with an ultimate capacity of 20 million gallons a day.” It would “replace both the existing Tanner and Ione water treatment plants.” Griffin said the goal of the interim study “will be to evaluate the water treatment supply and storage needs of the Tanner and Ione service regions.” It will also “ascertain if improvements to the agency’s existing Ione and Tanner water treatment plants may provide a practical means to increase treatment supply capabilities in these service regions until the Regional Tanner water treatment plant project is constructed.” Griffin said the study would “also review the remaining useful life of the existing Tanner and Ione (plants) and analyze the optimum time” to bring the new regional plant on-line. The 2 companies’ RFPs had only a $1,500 difference in price, Griffin said. One of the companies was already under contract, he said, as the design consultant for the regional Tanner water treatment plant. AWA Interim General Manger Gene Mancebo said the agency originally hired Stantec to design the regional plant at Tanner. The company began design and specification work for the regional plant, and AWA halted their work “at least a year ago, maybe longer,” because of the economic downturn. Mancebo said now the approach is to see if the agency can expand the existing facilities and try to stretch their capacity. Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Wednesday, 10 February 2010 01:06
AWA to Consider $228,000 Ione, Tanner Analyses
Amador County – The Amador Water Agency board of directors Thursday will consider $228,000 in analyses for the Ione water treatment plant and the Tanner water treatment plant. Staff in a memo recommends board approval of $134,000 through the end of the current fiscal year to study the plant in Ione, and another $94,000 to study Tanner in Sutter Creek, to be spent in 2010-2011. Staff recommends approving a contract with Stantec Consulting. The AWA Engineering Committee – President Bill Condrashoff and Director Terence Moore – could not reach an agreement on a recommendation for the full board, after the agency issued Request For Proposal packets to 6 companies in August 2009, and only 2 companies responded. Operations and Engineering departments were authorized by the AWA board to analyze the 2 companies, Stantec and RBF, with Stantec leading the rankings. AWA Engineer John R. Griffin in a report to the board said the “agency retained a design consultant for the design of the Regional Tanner” water treatment plant, “planned to be built to approximately 8 million gallons a day in Phase 1 with an ultimate capacity of 20 million gallons a day.” It would “replace both the existing Tanner and Ione water treatment plants.” Griffin said the goal of the interim study “will be to evaluate the water treatment supply and storage needs of the Tanner and Ione service regions.” It will also “ascertain if improvements to the agency’s existing Ione and Tanner water treatment plants may provide a practical means to increase treatment supply capabilities in these service regions until the Regional Tanner water treatment plant project is constructed.” Griffin said the study would “also review the remaining useful life of the existing Tanner and Ione (plants) and analyze the optimum time” to bring the new regional plant on-line. The 2 companies’ RFPs had only a $1,500 difference in price, Griffin said. One of the companies was already under contract, he said, as the design consultant for the regional Tanner water treatment plant. AWA Interim General Manger Gene Mancebo said the agency originally hired Stantec to design the regional plant at Tanner. The company began design and specification work for the regional plant, and AWA halted their work “at least a year ago, maybe longer,” because of the economic downturn. Mancebo said now the approach is to see if the agency can expand the existing facilities and try to stretch their capacity. Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Latest from
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