TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Allison Swisher, Director of Public Utilities
SUBJECT:
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Award of Contract for the 2025 Sanitary Service Lateral Lining Program to Performance Pipelining Inc. in the Amount of $695,522.66 and Award of the 2025 Sanitary Service Lateral Professional Agreement to RJN Group in the Amount of $94,600.00
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BACKGROUND:
The City of Joliet owns and operates a wastewater collection system that consists of approximately 13,484 manholes and 592 miles of sanitary sewers with pipe diameters ranging from 4" to 72". The age of the sewer system ranges from the late 1800s to present day. In 2016 the City completed a Utility Department Efficiency Study which recommended rehabilitating a minimum of 1% of the sewer mains in the system annually. Furthermore, the IEPA has stipulated in the NPDES permits for the City's wastewater treatment plants that a Capacity Management Operations and Maintenance (CMOM) plan be implemented. This plan requires a program for reduction of inflow and infiltration. In order to meet the goals of the City's approved efficiency study implementation plan and NPDES permits, a ten-year sewer rehabilitation program was prepared. The goals of the rehabilitation program are to restore the structural integrity of the system, reduce inflow and infiltration, and reduce the occurrence of basement back-ups.
On December 19, 2023, the Mayor and City Council awarded the 2024 Sanitary Rehabilitation Program for the Year 7 priority area: Bridal Wreath Acres, Stonegate, Black Road Acres, and Bevan Acres. The cured-in-place pipelining, manhole rehabilitation, and chemical grouting for this area was successfully completed in 2024 by National Power Rodding. The only rehabilitation remaining in the Year 7 priority area is the lining of service laterals.
Design drawings and bidding documents were prepared for service lateral lining and the invitation to bid was advertised in the Herald News on Thursday, December 19, 2024. Th...
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