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Council approves design amendment for two pump stations; staff to check manganese complaints
Summary
Councilmember Richardson questioned a design-phase cost increase tied to adding a carbon-dioxide removal process at two pump stations; Public Utilities staff said the CO2 element adds about $158,000 to an original design of roughly $309,000 and will verify whether residents reported manganese in service areas.
The Fresno City Council on Sept. 25 approved a contested-consent amendment to the design-phase work on two water pump stations (identified in staff materials as pump station 177 and pump station 185) to add a carbon-dioxide removal process to the project design.
Council Member Richard Richardson pulled the consent item to ask why the staff report showed a revised total of about $4.67 million while the city’s earlier appraisal and estimate listed roughly $309,000 for the original design. Public Utilities staff clarified the portion before the council was a design-phase amendment: the original design cost noted in the staff presentation was approximately $309,000 and the additional carbon-dioxide removal equipment and associated design work is about $158,000.
Richardson also asked whether there had been any resident complaints about manganese in water for the pump-stations’ service areas. Public Utilities staff said they were not certain off the top of their heads and would follow up with the water-division staff; staff said manganese complaints more commonly arise in the far northern parts of the city but that they would verify whether the two pump stations in question had related complaints.
The council approved the amendment as part of the contested consent items; staff recorded details in the meeting and the Public Utilities Department was asked to report back with complaint-history findings.
Ending: The department will return a memo or staff report with the review of complaint records and any additional technical clarifications requested by the council.
