Finance Committee

CONTRACT FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

CONSULTING SERVICES FOR MINE FALLS HYDROELECTRIC FACILITY LICENSING
AND COMPLIANCE SERVICES

A CONTRACT BETWEEN

THE CITY OF NASHUA, 229 MAIN STREET, NASHUA, NH 03061-2019
AND

NORMANDEAU ASSOCIATES, INC. 25 NASHUA ROAD, BEDFORD, NH 03110

and its successors, transferees and assignees (together “Consultant”)

WHEREAS, the City of Nashua, a political subdivision of the State of New Hampshire, from time to
time requires the services of independent Consultants; and

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and Revised
. Kickoff Meeti
. Develop Preliminary S Plan
. Prelim S Plan Meeti
re Revised S Plan

of Plan’
1. Instream Habitat
2. RTE Mussel
3. Water S
4. Telemetry Study Upstream/Downstream Migrating Shad
and Herri
Full
Reduced S
Minimum
5. Juvenile Alosine T
Radio T
PIT Tag S

Defer
6. Entrainment Assessment
7. Submit S

Draft
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Table 4. 2019-2021 H.L. Turner Group rate table for the City of Nashua Mine Falls Relicensing.

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STANDARD FEE SCHEDULE AND PAYMENT TERMS

FEE SCHEDULE
Hourly Bidling Rate”

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Table 3. 2019-2021 Normandeau rate table for the City of Nashua Mine Falls Relicensing.

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Table 2. Estimated process cost by task for the Mine Falls relicensing.

Task

Estimated
Hours

Estimated Cost

Proposed and Revised Study Plan

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date of August 1, 2019 and a set date for filing the Final License Application with FERC no later than two years
before the existing license expires (i.e., August 4, 2021).

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e The assessment of impingement, entrainment, and survival of diadromous species will be conducted
as a desktop analysis.

e The potential for impingement or entrainment will be characterized based on the relationship of site-
specific intake characteristics along with swim speed and life history characteristics of target fish
species.

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e Determine the flow field conditions which exist in and around the fishway entrances and create a
series of color contour maps of velocity magnitude at a range of discharges for comparison with known

fish swim capabilities.

Agency Recommended Approach:
e Collect necessary data (bed topography, water velocities, water depth) under a range of discharges

and assemble a 3-D computational fluid dynamics model.

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© Collect an adequate number of appropriately sized juvenile herring from a location within the
Merrimack River watershed — we have assumed this can be completed in a period of four
evenings.

o PIT-tag a total of 200 juvenile herring and release directly into the power canal at Mine Falls to
evaluate downstream passage.

o Assumes installation and maintenance of a single PIT receiver during the period September-
November.

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