Agenda Item: 7(b)
Prepared By: Jeffrey E. Poteet, General Manager
Business: Consent Agenda Item
Department: Water and Sewer
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Authorize the City Manager to Issue a Purchase Order to USSI, LLC in the Amount of $218,400 for the Smoke Testing of the City's Wastewater Collection System by Piggybacking on Clearwater Contract No. 22-0006-UT - Jeffrey E. Poteet, General Manager, Water & Sewer
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BACKGROUND:
Smoke testing is an easy, cost-effective way of locating leaks in the collection system with little disruption to the City's sewer customers. An additional advantage to this method of investigation is that it will not only test the City's maintained gravity main pipes but will also test the integrity of the sewer laterals. This method has been used extensively all over the country for over 40 years to locate defects in sewer systems.
Damaged pipes, improper private sewer construction or illegal connections to the sewer offer an easy route for storm water or other non-wastewater discharges to enter the sanitary sewer collection system. Non-wastewater flows entering the sanitary sewer collection system not only takes up valuable capacity (which could potentially cause raw sewage spills), but costs extra money to treat and convey.
Since the wastewater collection system is underground and is constantly subject to the forces of nature, dynamic changes can occur in relatively short periods of time. Those forces of nature may be heightened because Marco Island is a barrier island whose soil is primarily made of sand. Sandy soils are loosely packed so when it rains these soils shift and compact more easily, causing pipes in the ground to fail. All equipment necessary for the collection/transmission of domestic wastewater, including equipment provided, pursuant to Rule 62-604.400(2), F.A.C., shall be maintained to function as intended.
Pursuant to City of Marco Island Purchasing Ordinance, Section 2-255(c)(3), the purchase of goods and services a...
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