TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Allison Swisher, Director of Public Utilities
SUBJECT:
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Award of Contract for the 2026 Sanitary Service Lateral Lining Program to Performance Pipelining Inc. in the Amount of $719,939.64 and Award of the 2026 Sanitary Service Lateral Professional Services Agreement to RJN Group in the Amount of $71,700.00
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BACKGROUND:
The City of Joliet provides wastewater services to residential customers, commercial customers, industrial customers, private utilities, and other sanitary districts, covering over 40 square miles across Will and Kendall Counties. The wastewater collection system consists of 52 sanitary sewer pumping stations, 601 miles of sanitary sewers with pipe diameters ranging from 3" to 72", and approximately 13,823 manholes. The age of the system ranges from the late 1800s to present day. The IEPA has stipulated in the City's wastewater treatment plant NPDES permits that a Capacity, Management, Operations, and Maintenance (CMOM) plan be implemented. This plan requires a program for identification and reduction of inflow and infiltration (I&I). In order to meet the requirements of the CMOM plan, 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 February 4, 2025, the Mayor and City Council awarded the 2025 Sanitary Rehabilitation Program for the Garnsey Park area which is Year 8 of the ten-year plan. The cured-in-place pipelining, manhole rehabilitation, and chemical grouting for this area was successfully completed in 2025. The only rehabilitation work remaining in the Year 8 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. The contract was advertised as ...
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