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AMENDMENT NO. THREE TO CONTRACT K-1011-148: BY AND BETWEEN THE NORMAN UTILITIES AUTHORITY AND GARVER, L.L.C., INCREASING THE CONTRACT AMOUNT BY $839,100 FOR A REVISED CONTRACT AMOUNT OF $10,271,800 TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION, CONSTRUCTION OBSERVATION, AND SCADA APPLICATION ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR THE PHASE 2 WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY EXPANSION PROJECT.
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BACKGROUND: The Wastewater Master Plan (WWMP), adopted by the Norman Utilities Authority (NUA) in 2001, recommended that additional facilities treating an average daily design flow (ADF) of 21.5 million gallons per day (MGD) would ultimately be needed to serve the area approved for urban development under the 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan. The WWMP recommended expansion of the South Water Reclamation Facility (WRF) from 12 to 17 MGD and construction of a new North WRF with an ultimate ADF of 4.5 MGD.
In 2001, the voters approved establishment and funding of three new wastewater funds to address existing and future wastewater system needs. The existing Water Reclamation Fund 032 (WRF) was supplemented by the Sewer Maintenance Fund 321 (SMF), the Sewer Excise Tax Fund 322 (SET), and the Sewer Sales Tax Fund 323 (SST). Revenues are generated by usage fees (WRF), by the $5 per month maintenance fee for collection system rehabilitation (SMF), by a temporary 5-year 1/2 percent sales tax (SST; expired in 2006) to fund existing and obligated wastewater system needs and a sewer excise tax (SET) to fund future wastewater system needs resulting from new development.
More recently, staff recommended and the NUA agreed that the South WRF would be rehabilitated and expanded first and the North WRF would be designed and constructed in the future when the capacity of the recently expanded Lift Station D was consumed. Based on this premise, Norman voters approved a rate increase in October 2013, in part for expanded treatment capacity at the South WRF.
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