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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all necessary contract documents with Kinnetic Laboratories, Inc., and CSC Targhee, Inc. (both firms with Long Beach offices), for conducting municipal stormwater runoff and dry weather water quality monitoring as required by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, with a term beginning October 1, 2010 through September 30, 2013, in an estimated combined contract amount of $500,000 per year, and any amendments thereto, including the ability to authorize up to two one-year extensions that may be required to remain compliant with anticipated changes in Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board stormwater regulations and associated regulatory permits. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Under the terms of Order No. 99-060, the City of Long Beach was required by the State Water Resources Control Board to conduct a water monitoring program for stormwater and dry weather discharges through the City’s municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) beginning in the 1999/2000 wet weather season. The permit was initially issued for a term of five years. At the end of the initial five years, the City was directed by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (LARWQCB) to continue operating under the 1999 permit until further notice. Current guidance from the LARWQCB staff indicates that a new revised permit will be issued within the year that will most likely modify the current required monitoring program, with additional requirements.
When the original stormwater monitoring requirement was imposed, the City issued a request for proposals (RFP) to perform stormwater quality sampling, equipment procurement and installation, field observations, laboratory testing, data analysis, data interpretation and annual report preparation, in accordance with LARWQCB requirements. Several firms responded and, on March 25, 2003, the City awarded a contract with Kinnetic Laboratories, Inc. (Kinnetic), to perfo...
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