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Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. RFP CM16-028 for Professional Engineering Design Services for the Colorado Lagoon Open Channel Restoration Phase 2A Project (Project); award a contract to Anchor QEA, LLC, of Huntington Beach, CA, in the amount of $300,000, for preliminary design services, for a period of three years, with the option to renew for three additional one-year periods; authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary amendments thereto;
Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a Memorandum of Understanding with the Harbor Department and grant first rights of refusal to compensatory mitigation credits generated by the Project to the Harbor Department, in exchange for the Harbor Department’s continued contribution to the Project;
Accept a Harbor Department contribution of $350,000 for preliminary engineering design services for the Project; and
Increase appropriations in the Tidelands Operations Fund (TF 401) by $350,000 in the City Manager Department (CM) by $350,000, offset by the Harbor Department transfer. (District 3)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to enter into a contract with Anchor QEA, LLC, to develop preliminary engineering plans for the Project.
Background
The Colorado Lagoon (Lagoon) is an 18-acre saltwater tidal lagoon located at 5119 East Colorado Street. It is hydraulically connected to Alamitos Bay and the Pacific Ocean through a 900-foot long underground box culvert located under Marina Vista Park at 5355 East Eliot Way (see Exhibit A-Location Map). The Lagoon serves three primary functions: it hosts estuarine habitat, provides public recreation (including swimming), and it retains and conveys storm water. The Lagoon site was formerly part of the vast Los Cerritos Wetlands complex and was naturally connected to what is now Marine Stadium. Over the course of several decades, an accumulation of contaminants resulting fr...
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