Finance Committee - 09/04/2019 Page 6
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
Still waiting for mine.
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Monica Drive Drainage Improvements
MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO
RWC ENTERPRISE IN THE AMOUNT OF $129,900. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN DEPARTMENT 169,
WASTEWATER
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
Do you want to give an explanation?
Mr. Kohalmi
The Monica Drive area has been suffering from drainage issues for years. We have had a lot of complaints
from the residents. The Streets Department did try and go in there and kind of patch things up a year or two
ago but it needs more extensive, deeper work than that. So this project is going to install some drainage pipe
under the road and we are going to reconstruct part of the road that was pretty badly beaten up from
groundwater and storm water not having a place to go.
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Consent Decree — 2019 Updated Long Term Control Plan
MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO
HAZEN IN AN AMOUNT NOT-TO-EXCEED $487,760. SOURCE OF FUNDING IS DEPARTMENT 169,
WASTEWATER
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
This is a control plan that the EPA has requested that we do in order to further reduce CSO or Combined
Sewer Overflow Discharge to the rivers.
Alderman Klee
Yes thank you. | think as far as our overflow into the river, | think we’ve been pretty good as to not having to
dump. | know this is a double-edged sword: when you separate the sewage from the overflow in this particular
thing. | Know that that means that runoff water can go into the river and the runoff water isn’t always all that
clean; sometimes not any cleaner than our sewage water is. When things like that happen, because | have
been getting a lot of phone calls and so on from people; about 3 or 4 weeks ago we had a severe Thursday
night storm that created a lot of this overflow into people’s basement and into their yards and so on. Do we
know when any of this regular rainwater overflow would go into the river outside of the wastewater plant? Do
we have any knowledge of that particular thing?
