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Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract with Purifics Water, Inc., of London, Ontario (CAN), for the purchase of stormwater filtration equipment for the Long Beach Municipal Urban Stormwater Treatment Project, in an amount of $4,882,480, authorize a 10 percent contingency in the amount of $488,248, for a total contract amount not to exceed $5,370,728. (District 1)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to enter into a contract with Purifics Water, Inc. (Purifics) to furnish and deliver stormwater filtration equipment for the Long Beach Municipal Urban Stormwater Treatment (LB-MUST) Project.
The LB-MUST Project (Project) Masterplan is projected to cost between $150 to $200 million and will extend approximately eight miles along the Los Angeles River (LAR), from State Route 91 to Ocean Boulevard. The Project consists of a stormwater treatment facility near the Shoemaker Bridge and will improve Long Beach’s water quality and create a wetlands area, which benefits aquatic life and recreational beach activities. By capturing and cleaning stormwater, the Project will reduce pollution that enters the LAR and City beaches. The recycled water will irrigate City parks and sustain a wetlands habitat that has been proposed as a part of this Project. These activities ensure compliance with the City’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit.
In April 2016, the City Council authorized a cooperative agreement with the California Department of Transportation to receive $28 million to build the Project. In January 2017, the City also received $2 million in Proposition 1 (Water Bond) Tier 1 grant funds from the San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy to build five acres of wetlands as part of the Project. The first phase of the Project will use both of these funds to build the treatment facility and nearby wetlands.
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