TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager to add Appendix K to Service Agreement #27723 with the Southern California Gas Company for the construction, project management, project engineering, and field inspections of the Huntington Beach Pipeline in the vicinity of Bolsa Chica Street. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
On February 13, 1996 , the City Council authorized the City Manager to execute a five-year greement with Southern California Gas Company (SoCaIGas) to provide utility-related services to the Long Beach Gas and Oil Department (LBGO). Under the agreement, LBGO can avail itself of numerous specialized services to augment those services provided by its own personnel including gas utility-related personnel training, meter repair, and field inspection.
LBGO found the services provided under the initial five-year agreement cost-effective and supportive of LBGO operations and on March 19, 2002 , obtained approval from the City Council to continue the program for up to five years thereafter.
LBGO is requesting that Appendix K be added to the Agreement to provide the construction , project management, project engineering, and field inspections required to mitigate the impact of the realignment of the pipeline located in the vicinity of Bolsa Chica Street in the City of Huntington
Beach.
The City of Long Beach owns the pipeline and leases the pipeline to SoCalGas , which operates and maintains the pipeline. Hearthside Homes, a home development company, is developing tracts of land near Bolsa Chica Street. This development will affect the depth of soil required over the pipeline when the re-grading of Bolsa Chica Street begins. The project, currently in the engineering phase will require trench work and protection of the pipelines during the road construction.
LBGO anticipates SoCalGas to perform work under Appendix K including, but not limited to , the
following:
Removal of the pipe , pipe supports, and appurtenances, including above ground and buried Pipes...
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