Finance Committee - 01/15/2020 Page 8
Director Lisa Fauteux
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MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Contract for WWTF - 20 Year Facility Study (Value: $300,000); Department: 169 Wastewater; Fund:
Wastewater
MOTION BY ALDERMAN HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE, AND AWARD THE
CONTRACT TO DEVELOP AND PREPARE A 20 YEAR FACILITY PLANNING STUDY FOR THE
WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY TO WRIGHT PIERCE IN THE AMOUNT OF $300,000. FUNDS
ARE AVAILABLE IN DEPARTMENT 169 WASTEWATER; FUND: WASTEWATER
ON THE QUESTION
Director Lisa Fauteux
So this is something that actually has never been done and is pretty important. The wastewater treatment
facility is undoubtedly one of the city’s most critical and valuable assets. As we’re getting more and more
tough EPA regulations that are coming forth in our permits and our NPDES permit regulations, we thought it
was really important at this time to do this study to see what the financial needs will be down the road for the
wastewater treatment plant and also maybe some other things that we should be thinking about down the road
to be able to maintain compliance with our permits. We are recommending Wright Pierce. Wright Pierce
actually is the consultant that’s probably most familiar with our plant. They definitely would be the best fit to do
this comprehensive 20 year study.
Alderman Klee
So this study will this include looking in the possible expansion which | know we’ve talked about before and just
to follow up on that, | know that we’ve had to do a lot of replacements and so on because you’ve been doing a
great job within the maintenance and trying to bring everything up. Will they be looking at that or will just be
looking at our compliance issues?
Director Lisa Fauteux
No they'll be looking at that. So it will include looking at our current and projected future flows. We'll be
looking at plant hydraulics and our treatment capacity which you just referred to. Nashua is pretty well built
out. I’m not sure that we actually will need the capacity. We have a little bit of capacity but we really need to
nail that down to figure out exactly how much capacity that we have left. Yes we will be looking at all of that,
and our future capital needs, and all of that.
Alderman Klee
Just to follow up, | Know you said that we’re at capacity and we may only need a little bit more. It might
behoove us to do that expansion in case we had a fail or anything and we’d have that other tank. | remember
them talking about possibly needed to grow that was part of the Burke Street project and buying that extra land
so we had he space.
Director Lisa Fauteux
So while that wouldn’t necessarily only be for an expansion, that would be for instance one of the things that
we'll be doing in the next five years will be building a facility to treat for phosphorus. That will need land. As
regulations tighten and increase, we'll need to think about doing some different treatments. I’m not sure that
we'll need to expand at this point but this study will tell us that.
