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Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract with AECOM Technical Services, Inc., of Long Beach, CA, to provide groundwater monitoring and reporting at former City Fuel Sites 7, 10, 11, and 17, and provide services that will result in the accelerated removal of the contaminants at these sites, for a total contract amount of $1,474,890, plus a 10 percent contingency in the amount of $147,490, for a total amount not to exceed $1,622,380, for a period of five years, with the option to renew for two additional one-year periods, including any necessary amendments thereto, provided that the total contract amount is not exceeded. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to enter into a contract with AECOM Technical Services, Inc. (AECOM), to provide groundwater monitoring and reporting at former Fuel Sites 7, 10, 11, and 17, to provide services that will result in the accelerated removal of the contaminants at these sites, and to prepare reimbursement documentation for these actions as needed by the City.
The City has pursued cleanup and remediation at these inactive sites since 1994, when it was reported to the Certified Unified Program Agency within the Long Beach Health and Human Services Department that five fuel sites located in the City may be contaminating the groundwater. The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (LARWQCB) opened cases against those facilities, requiring that groundwater monitoring, testing and reporting be conducted. Subsequently, fuel tanks at these five sites were removed. Furthermore, to ensure compliance with the LARWQCB’s requirements, and to avoid civil liability penalties of up to $1,000 per day, the City engaged contractors since then to monitor, test and report on these facilities at an average annual cost of $100,000. One of the five original cases has been remediated and closed (Tree Farm - 7600 E. Spring Street), no longer requiring groundwater...
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