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Lafayette Renew board approves $51.07 million final CSO treatment contract, OKs solar completion and several contract adjustments
Summary
The Lafayette City board approved a $51,074,521 guaranteed maximum price for the final construction phase of the long-term control plan, issued a notice to proceed, accepted completion certificates for two solar arrays and approved scope and design amendments for Service Area 11B.
Brad Talley, a representative of Lafayette Renew, told the Lafayette City board on Tuesday that the utility’s long-term control plan has reached its final major construction phase and recommended award of a guaranteed maximum price for the high-rate treatment facility.
Talley said the final facility was resized after earlier phases to reduce capacity from an originally planned 119 million gallons per day to 73 million gallons per day. He identified major components as the high-rate treatment unit, internal piping, electrical and chemical treatment upgrades, a 30 million gallon-per-day wet-weather expansion at the Pearl River Lift Station, a new 36-inch force main and SCADA monitoring. Talley recommended approval of a guaranteed maximum price of $51,074,521 for what he called the CSO long-term control plan phase 2D project.
The board moved, seconded and approved the GMP by voice vote; no roll-call tally was read into the record.
Talley also presented a notice to proceed for the same project that begins on the day the board met. He said the project’s substantial completion date is set for April 30, 2027, with final completion on June 30, 2027. The board approved the notice to proceed by voice vote.
Separately, the board accepted a certificate of substantial completion for the solar arrays at the Lafayette wastewater treatment plant and the Ross Road Lift Station. Talley said the arrays were commissioned and put into service on Dec. 19, 2024. The board approved both the certificate of substantial completion and the final completion certificate and was told staff will apply for tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act.
On the Service Area 11B utility extension project, Talley described a scope reduction with Bowen Engineering that removes road restoration from Lafayette Renew’s scope. Talley said the county will perform road restoration later, and the scope reduction is $606,240, which Talley said brings the contract to approximately $42,000,006.64. The board approved the scope modification by voice vote.
Talley also presented amendment No. 2 with HWC Engineering to increase design compensation by $116,965, bringing the HWC contract to $1,824,375. The board approved that amendment by voice vote.
Talley closed by recognizing a longtime employee, Pete Corbin, who was retiring after 50 years of service to the city and Lafayette Renew.
Mayor (unnamed in transcript) addressed the board after the Lafayette Renew presentation and said the collection of ongoing infrastructure projects — including the rapid treatment facility, Service Areas 11A/11B work, and well-field improvements — represents more than $100 million in active projects. The mayor said the long-term control plan was a lengthy process tied to a judicial agreement involving the EPA, and that the city expects to complete construction and then conduct two years of post-construction monitoring to confirm performance.
Notes on attribution: direct quotations and attributions in this article are from speakers listed in the meeting transcript (Brad Talley; the Mayor; the board Chair as recorded). Where a specific motion mover or seconder was not named in the transcript, the article reports the outcome and that votes were taken by voice.
