12/14/1983 - Minutes (2) M 14-2--
LEROY W. HOOTON, JR.
DIRECTOR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES
JOSEPH S. FENTON WATER SUPPLY & WATERWORKS TED L. WILSON
SUPERINTENDENT, WATER RECLAMATION WATER RECLAMATION MAYOR
WENDEL E. EVENSEN, P.E. 1530 SOUTH WEST TEMPLE
SUPERINTENDENT SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84115
WATER SUPPLY & WATERWORKS
January 24, 1984
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Mayor Ted L. Wilson
300 City and County Building
Salt Lake City, UT 84111 C'D'pFCQJ
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Dear Mayor Wilson:
RE: Public Utilities Advisory Committee
Attached are the minutes of the Public Utilities Advisory
Committee meeting of December 14, 1983, which were approved
in the committee meeting of January 19, 1984.
I request that the minutes be approved at the mayor' s
executive meeting and filed in the city recorder' s office .
Sincerely,
LE OY W HOOTO , JR. 6
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Minutes FEB 11'1F'
Meeting of December 14, 1983 cityFcoRoER
Arizona Room, Little America Motel
For the lunch which began at 12 noon, the following committee members were in
attendance: Ralph Steenblik, Howard Dunn, Emanuel Floor, Ray Arnold, Jack
Bonnett, Roger Boyer and Steven Featherstone. Also present were Ray Montgomery
of the city attorney's office; Cheryl Cook and Lance Bateman of the finance
office; Kiran Bhayani of the State Department of Water Pollution Control ;
Sheldon Barker, Dave Evans and Tom Krumsick of CH2M Hill ; Marlon Barrett and
Craig Bott of Arthur Young Company; Nick Sefakis of the Metropolitan Water
District and Leigh von der Esch, Alice Shearer, Ione Davis, Ron Whitehead and
Earl Hardwick of the City Council .
The following people joined the group at 1 p.m. for the meeting: Brian Wilkinson
of The Tribune; Dave Schneider of the Deseret News and Bill Bruce of Black &
Veatch.
Chairman Steenblik brought the meeting to order at 1 :15 p.m.
I. Review and approve minutes of November 17, 1983, meeting
Mr. Featherstone motioned that the minutes be approved as written and Mr. Arnold
seconded the motion with all voting aye.
II . Summary report on past year and issues for the coming year
Mr. Hooton said that we had a poor year overall because of the flooding, damage
to facilities and the cash flow. We had a difficult time, but have handled our
problems successfully. We are still trying to recover from the damages to the
facilities and will have to continue through the rest of this year to get ready
for next year' s runoff.
We did, however, get the Big Cottonwood Conduit in place just in time. The old
conduit would not have been able to have handled the flows this year, and in
fact, was undermined. This along with the loss of the Metropolitan Water
District Terminal Reservoir could have caused the loss of 70 percent of our
water supply last summer.
Also the Victory Road Reservoir, Perry' s Hollow Reservoir and the Redwood Road
trunk line were all completed this year. The Big Cottonwood extension is under
construction.
We encountered problems in financing due to the poor water sales because of the
weather, and the delinquent accounts placed a burden on the department this
year.
He said that the snowpack on the watersheds is much higher than last year, and
because of this snow surveys are taken every 15 days. Parley' s is 232 percent
of normal compared with 148 percent last year and Big Cottonwood is 246 percent
of normal , compared with 197 percent last year.
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He said that Utah Lake has risen from 1 .30 last year at this date to 3.05 this
year. The Jordan River is flowing at 1425 cfs this year compared to 878 cfs
last year at this time. The Great Salt Lake last year was at 4201 .1 and now it
is at 4205.3.
In the future we need to improve:
1 . Water maintenance program. We have a backlog of fire hydrants, leaking
services, etc.
2. Customer service area. We are being overwhelmed with calls and problems in
our customer service division.
3. Finances. The delinquent accounts are a big problem and we will have to
look at bond programs.
III. Preliminary design report and itemized list and estimated costs
for improvements at the City' s water reclamation plant
Mr. Tom Krumsick said that CH2M Hill made recommendations as follows:
1 . That the existing treatment plant be rehabilitated to have a 20-year life to
provide treatment at the facility
2. Meet a 15/10 standard. To be implemented in 1985. Since that time the
State has granted an extension of time for the 15/10 standard until 1989.
3. Sludge disposal .
4. Design a new plant site and proceed on an as-needed basis with a new
facility in the Northwest Quadrant.
He said that CH2M Hill was selected for the predesign phase to address the
rehabilitation of the existing facility, energy recovery and future elimination
of the odor control to minimize any future odor problems and pilot test at the
Redwood Road facility to find the most cost-effective way to meet the 15/10
standards.
He distributed four handouts and described each. One illustrated the proposed
cash flow for the existing wastewater plant; one showed the proposed modifications
to existing water reclamation facilities; one showed the proposed treatment
facilities improvements' cost allocation and the last one showed the estimated
delivery schedule for the sewer improvements. one_
showed
said that remaining tasks are: that predesign needs to be reviewed by the
State and City staff. Recommendations need to be approved by the council .
Then value engineering needs to be conducted on areas of predesign to make sure
items have not been overlooked and the design ( phase 2) needs to be started.
Based on the current estimated costs and cash flow plan, it appears that the
planned 1987 rate incrase will not be needed.
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IV. Privatization report by Arthur Young
Mr. Marlon Barrett briefly described the three volumes of the privatization
report which were distributed to council and committee members.
He said Arthur Young's general conclusions of the projects are that the pay-as-
we-go basis is a good way to go because it provides flexibility. They would
recommend that we continue this approach. They would also recommend, however,
that when projects are needed the City consider privatization.
Mr. Hooton added that we decided on the cash flow plan because it would provide
us with many options and this is one of those options that we need to look at.
V. Interlocal agreement with City/County Board of Health and Salt Lake
City for joint laboratory facilities
Mr. Fenton said that Salt Lake City adopted the pretreatment program to monitor
wastes from industry into the plant. This required extensive testing. The
staff looked at options and concluded that the City could save money by going
with other governmental agencies to combine more sophisticated laboratory
analysis and nave state-qualified personnel perform the work.
South Valley is going to join with us and we will be saving costs for the
special lab facilities, equipment and personnel . Through this agreement we
would put $30,000 upfront for our share of the equipment. This would cost us
one-fifth of what we are paying for each test now. It would save us $16,000
per year in fees alone. We approached the City/County Board of Health and told
them what our needs were and gave them an idea of what it was costing us for
private laboratories. They came back with their version of an agreement. Next
month we will bring the agreement before the board for discussion.
Mr. Hooton said that we are not competing with private industry for these tests
which are performed.
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Mr. Floor said that he wanted the council members to know that we appreciate
their support of recommendations made by the Public Utilities Advisory Committee.
The meeting was adjourned at 2:05 p.m.