The Board of Public Works of Trenton Municipal Utilities held its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday evening at city hall, hearing updates on several projects and approving two contracts.
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The Board of Public Works of Trenton Municipal Utilities held its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday evening at city hall, hearing updates on several projects and approving two contracts.
Patty Adams of Larkin Group met with the board to discuss her company?s qualifications for completing a long-term plan of action for the water treatment plant.
TMU Director Chad Davis said although TMU is currently meeting all water quality requirements, the utility wants to be proactive in being able to meet future Environmental Protection Agency and Missouri Department of Natural Resources requirements. Davis said some new requirements such as disinfection by-products standards are already on the horizon and the utility needs to be ready to meet them when they are enacted.
The engineering firm proposes to do the study of the water plant in four different phases with the first two phases to be completed in fiscal year 2004-05 and the last two phases to be completed in fiscal year 2005-06.
Phase I would include preparatory work and immediate technical support services at a cost not to exceed $38,000. It contains replacement of filter media at the plant, which is a high priority for the utility and would be done this fall and winter.
Phase II would involve a review of the treatment plant, treatment alternatives and regulatory compliance needs. It would look at disinfection and by-product limits and be completed at a cost not to exceed $44,000.
Review of treatment plant residuals production, handling and disposal needs would take place in Phase III. The cost is not to exceed $28,000.
Phase IV would involve a review of raw water storage needs. TMU currently uses lagoons to store water pumped from the Thompson River and this phase would evaluate their capacity as well as determining if sediment needs to be removed from them or if additional storage capacity is needed. The cost for Phase IV is not to exceed $43,000.
Board members approved the contract with Larkin to have the engineering work done for the project. A division of Larkin did the engineering work on the recently completed Trenton Aquatic Center.
Board members also approved a contract with Alltel for the company to lease antenna space on the Princeton Road water tower.
The contract is for a 25-year period, renewable in five-year increments. TMU will be paid $700 per month in the first five-year period with 10 percent increases at each ensuing five-year renewal of the contract.
TMU Comptroller Theresa Price told the board the pickup truck for the sanitation department approved for purchase at last month?s board meeting will have to be rebid. The truck was to be purchased through the State of Missouri?s cooperative purchase program, but was not available when TMU officials placed the order.
Davis said pressure testing was to take place today on the water main replacement project in north Trenton along Pleasant Plain and Mable Streets. The project will provide additional water capacity to Barnes Greenhouses as well as other businesses and residences in the area.
The board set a workshop for 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 17 o hear the long-term plan of action study for the wastewater treatment plant which will be presented by Burns and McDonnell.
The next regular meeting of the board is scheduled for Aug. 24.