05/01/1978
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Bids - Purchase of 1,400 Cart/Containers for Automated I-man
Collection System and Lease Financing to Purchase.
The recommendation is to award a contract for the pur-
chase of 1,400 cart/containers to Automated Refuse Collection
System, Hollywood, Florida, for $98,700. The same company was
awarded a contract for two automated side-loading garbage trucks
and these carts are especially made to be used with the trucks.
John Selover reported the new system could probably be
implemented on August 1, 1978, for one year and would be on
a demonstration or trial basis for that period of time.
Commissioner Martin requested selections of a typical
family area with trees, parked cars, and narrow streets, and
a retiree neighborhood, for trial demonstrations; and requested
the Commission be advised of the areas to be designated.
Treatment Plant status - Report by John Dennis of Briley, wild
& Associates, City consulting Engineers.
Mr. Dennis reported, in 1972 the state Legislature mandated
future treatment facilities supply advanced wastewater treatment
for the removal of phosphorus and nitrogen, in the entire Tampa
Bay Region (including pinellas County, St. Joseph Sound and
Tampa Bay).
The City currently has four treatment plants: the Marina,
which will be phased out by the end of May; the Marshall Street
Plant, which is currently under expansion; the East Plant; and
the Northeast Interim Plant.
In 1972 the City submitted an application for an E.P.A.
Grant for assistance in construction of a 4,000,000 gallon a
day secondary plant in the northeast section of Clearwater.
Late in 1972 subsequent legislation precipitated a revision
to the project in order to comply with advanced wastewater
treatment. The Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council confirmed
a regional facility should be locat~d in northeast Clearwater
and that it should treat to A.W.T. standards rather than to
dispose of secondary effluent by either spray irrigation or
deep well injection. The City constructed and put into opera-
tion a 1,000,000 gallon per day interim plant and operates a
spray irrigation field as a temporary solution to wastewater
processing needs in the northeast area.
In 1975 the Environmental Protection Agency reversed
itself on the subject of injection wells and the City was ad-
vised to reevaluate the cost of this method of disposal and
to also consider an outfall discharge point into the Gulf of
Mexico. Analysis indicated lower costs for alternatives in-
volving secondary treatment and deep well disposal in compari-
son with advanced wastewater treatment and surface water disposal.
The City proceeded with the plan involving secondary
treatment and deep well injection. If injection wells fail
to prove feasible it will be necessary to revert to the A.W.T.
plan. A test well has been drilled ,near the East Plant and it
will be monitored and evaluated to be sure deep well injection
will work. Depending on the results of the test, E.P.A. would
then fund the disposal method it desires--either A.W.T. or deep
well injection.
The Northeast Wastewater Treatment Plant will cost approxi-
mately $8,000,000. The grant offer was for $5,775,000 and
Clearwater's cost was estimated to be $1,925,000. This plant
is under construction and on schedule for September, 1978,
completion. The Federal government is doing a study on outfall
to the Gulf but it will take about two years to complete.
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