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A Resolution Of The City Commission Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Approving And Authorizing The Appropriate City Officials To Execute An Authorization To Proceed For Work Order Number ARC 22-03 With Arcadis U.S., Inc. To Provide Professional Engineering Services Related To The Design Of The Water Treatment Plant Injection Well No. 1 Mechanical Integrity Test And Development Of A Water System Hurricane And Catastrophic Electrical Failure Response Plan, In The Lump Sum Amount Of $180,796.00.
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Infrastructure & Facilites
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Staff Recommends: Approval of the attached Resolution.
Explanation:
The City of Hollywood's Water Treatment Plant ("WTP") is a 60 million gallons per day plant that not only provides high quality water to the residents of the City but also serves approximately 300 acres in the Town of Davie, 50 acres in the City of Dania Beach, and 100 acres in the Seminole Tribe of Florida reservation. WTP also provides wholesale water to Broward County's Water and Wastewater Services Districts 3A and 3B/C. In addition to retail and wholesale water services, the City has an emergency connection with the City of Dania Beach, which withdraws water from the City's system to maintain its system pressure.
The City's WTP treats raw water from wellfields in the Biscayne and Floridan aquifers using three major treatment processes: lime softening, membrane softening ("MS"), and reverse osmosis ("RO"). The MS and RO processes produce concentrate that is classified as industrial waste and is disposed through a Class I Deep Injection Well No.1 ("IW-1"), located at the WTP. The operating permit for IW-1 requires that a Mechanical Integrity Test ("MIT") be performed before December 20, 2022.
The America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 mandates that water systems serving over 3,300 people conduct an assessment of the risks to, and resilience of, its water system. This Risk and Resilience Assessment ("RRA") is based on an all...
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