Board OKs up-to-$50,000 CDM Smith general services agreement for water monitoring
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The Board of Public Works and Capital Assets authorized a general services agreement with CDM Smith not to exceed $50,000 to expand hydraulic modeling and deploy portable water-quality monitoring stations; vote was unanimous among named voters.
The Board of Public Works and Capital Assets on April 8 authorized the utility engineer to enter into a general services agreement with CDM Smith not to exceed $50,000, with the contract term expiring Dec. 31, 2030.
The move, introduced under agenda item 5, covers hydraulic modeling on the water side and will fund work to evaluate and implement new portable water-quality monitoring stations that the utility can deploy across the system, including at schools and other accessible sites, the utility engineer said. "We have a couple of, general services contracts, coming up this time. All our hydraulic modeling on the water side for us, they're also working on water quality monitoring stations that we'll implement throughout the community, try and get a gauge on... it just gives us a broader collection of that data throughout the system, right across the system," the utility engineer said.
The engineer said the city already collects water-quality data at pump stations and storage facilities but lacks sampling that represents the entire distribution system. The monitoring effort will include portable units that can be deployed to capture multiple parameters and will be placed at metering stations on the boundary with neighboring systems to document the water the city provides to those customers. "We will deploy those at the border though, at the metering station, so we know the water that we're providing in Franklin, and we can document that," the utility engineer said.
The engineer also described existing regulatory requirements for sampling disinfection byproducts produced when chlorine is added to drinking water, saying the utility must sample at specified locations and that missed sampling within a required week can constitute a violation. The engineer recounted a past monitoring location at Seventh and Ryan where a long building lateral produced high disinfection-byproduct readings that did not reflect the broader system; the city moved that sample point to a location across the street to better represent distribution conditions.
Board member Marshall moved to authorize the agreement; the roll call recorded Marshall and Guzikowski voting yes. The motion passed.
The board did not specify additional funding sources or a deployment schedule in the discussion. The utility engineer said staff are evaluating several monitoring brands and that the work would expand the city’s sampling footprint.
