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TUESDAY JULY 8, 1980 Revised Estimated Cost: Alternate No. I-A 1,000,000 gallon tank on Site 1 $464,000 Alternate No. l-B 2,000,000 gallon tank on Site 1 $767,000 Alternate No. 2-A 1,000,000 gallon tank on Site 2 $475,000 Alternate No. 2-B 2,000,000 gallon tank on Site 2 $ 779 , 000 Alternate No. 3-A 1,000,000 gallon tank on Site 3 $521,000 Alternate No. 3-B 2,000,000 gallon tank on Site 3 $825,000 RECOMMENDATIONS 1. As to Element A, it is recommended that this improvement be entirely deleted. The principal advantage was to enhance the recreational features of the reservoir, and its omission will not be detrimental to the overall feasibility of the water supply project. Efforts to secure formal DHUD concurrence will be initiated immediately. 2. As to Element C, it is recommended that we be authorized to proceed with the renovation and reactivation of the old pump station. Regardless of the actual yield, this reactivated source will increase the reliability of the overall system. With regard to the Health Department's question, we propose to take the position that this pump station is still under valid permit and that no cause exists for revocation. 3. As to Element E, it is recommended that the contract be awarded to include the proposed additional flocculation and sedimentation basins, thereby increasing the design capacity of the entire water treatment plant to ten MGD. Although this capacity is in excess of immediate needs, new projections of industrial demand seem to justify this additional improvement. Our consultants feel that the City will need the ten MGD capacity in the foreseeable future and that these additional basins are a good buy at $215,000, as bid. If bid and constructed separately in the future, these basins could double in cost, depending on a variety of factors. Concerning the Health Department and their proposed limitations on a future operating permit, we need your authority to immediately initiate an appeal through administrative channels, to be followed, if necessary, with a judicial appeal. Our purpose, in either event, will be to get the Health Department to alter its fundamental view of its permit constraints, thereby allowing us to operate the expanded plant more logically and efficiently. 4. As to Element F, it is recommended that we be authorized to proceed with design of a 1,000,000 gallon storage tank, to be located on proposed Site #3 (the rear of Lester property, abutting Fairy Street). The orginal proposed