Title
Water Quality Enhancement and Stream Restoration Services
Action
Action:
A. Approve unit price contracts with the following companies for water quality enhancement services for a five-year term:
- Gavel & Dorn Engineering, PLLC
- HDR Engineering, Inc. of the Carolinas
B. Approve unit price contracts with the following companies for stream restoration professional services for a five-year term:
- Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.
- Wildlands Engineering, Inc.
Body
Staff Resource(s):
Mike Davis, Engineering and Property Management
Jennifer Smith, Engineering and Property Management
Kyle Hall, Engineering and Property Management
Explanation
* Storm Water Services evaluates the feasibility of new surface water quality improvement projects.
* Surface water quality enhancements, ponds, and stream restoration projects drain to creeks identified as impaired by Clean Water Act standards.
* Improvements to existing ponds and newly identified water quality enhancement and stream restoration projects will remove pollutants from storm water runoff before the water is discharged into the creeks.
* Improving existing ponds is a cost-effective means of improving water quality and newly identified water quality enhancement projects are needed to improve water quality in areas where ponds do not exist.
* Stream restoration projects generate mitigation credits that can be used to offset stream and wetland impacts on public projects.
* In 2004, the City of Charlotte established a stream and wetland mitigation bank to hold mitigation credits that can be used by the City and County public projects.
* On August 10, 2016, the City issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ); 26 proposals were received from interested professional service providers.
* Firms were selected in September 2016. Staff needed additional time to develop the scope of services and secure appropriate funding.
* These are the best qualified firms to meet the City's needs on the basis of demonstrated c...
Click here for full text