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City seeks $288,000 engineering contract to retrofit plate settlers at Ouachita treatment plant
Summary
The Board will consider a resolution to award CHRIST Engineers Inc. $288,000 for engineering and bid-phase services to design stainless steel plate settlers for basins at the Ouachita (Watch Tal) water treatment plant; construction cost estimates will follow after design.
City of Hot Springs staff presented a resolution to award professional engineering and bidding services for plate-settler work at the Ouachita water treatment plant.
Todd Piller, project manager, said the work is engineering-only for replacing older tube settlers in basins 1 through 5; basins 6 and 7 already have newer stainless steel plate settlers. "Our existing, Ouachita water plant has 8 basins. 6 and 7 have the new stainless steel plate settlers... The old 1 through 5 have old tube settlers," Piller said.
The resolution on the agenda would award CHRIST Engineers Inc. $288,000 for structural engineering and design for the Watch Tal treatment plant plate settler project; Piller said the engineering contract will come from the city's 2023 water bond fund.
Piller told directors that the engineering contract is for design and bidding only and that a construction cost estimate will be available after design is completed. He said the design team must address structural issues where basins 2 and 3 share a common wall, and that basins 2 and 3 will likely be done together. The 288,000 figure given at the meeting referred to the engineering services portion only.
When asked about construction cost, Piller said no construction estimate is yet available; he said once design is complete the firm will provide a construction estimate and that the bond fund will be the anticipated source for construction, with water CIP funds as a possible supplement.
The contract contains a 180-day allowance for the design phase; Piller said the firm has that period in the contract but the actual schedule may finish sooner. Planning staff said there were no immediate questions beyond timing and cost estimates; the item was set for the board's regular agenda for formal consideration.
