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Consider and take appropriate action with respect to City Council Resolution No. 2025-____, approving the resolution of the Lawton Water Authority authorizing the application of two (2) grant applications and authorize the Mayor and City Clerk to sign the applications for the Environmental Protection Agency Federal Communities Grants in the amounts of $4,000,000 and $1,125,000 for the construction of Southeast Water Treatment Plant Sludge Handling Facility.
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INITIATOR: Rusty Whisenhunt, Director of Public Utilities
STAFF INFORMATION SOURCE: Rusty Whisenhunt, Director of Public Utilities
BACKGROUND: On December 4, 2020, the City of Lawton received Consent Order 20-214 from the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ) On June 22, 2021, Council awarded a contract to Garver, LLC in the amount of $6,296,700.00 for the design of PU2103 WWTP Improvements Phase 1 Project. The Engineering and Design contract provides full Engineering and Design services for items identified as Phase 1 Improvements in the Final Engineering report approved by City Council on June 8th, 2021. The Final Engineering Report outlined three distinct phases of improvement. Amendment No. 1 to the contract with Garver, LLC incorporates the additional professional services necessary to include the design of a new influent screening structure in the Phase 1 Improvements A new contract with Garver, LLC for design services for the WWTP Improvements Phase II project identified in the approved Engineering report and include the sludge removal designs for the Southeast Water Treatment Plant (SEWTP) that currently cause overloading of the WWTP solids will be authorized. The SEWTP Sludge handling design will stop the sludge being transferred to the WWTP that causes overloading of WWTP. The WWTP Improvements Phase II design will take approximately 15 months to complete. The design is being funded through the CWSRF loan obtained in fall of 2022. The design was awarded t...
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