Chandler Council OKs more than $3M in Tumbleweed Park water projects
Courtesy of City of Chandler
This map shows where a well is located within a city maintenance area at Tumbleweed Park in Chandler. Bonds will pay for more than $3 million needed to redrill a water well that has started pumping sand, as well as for a nearby lift station’s rehabilitation design.
Chandler’s proposed utility rate increase earned a lot of attention at and after meetings held the week of Aug. 13.
Its four public works contracts, paid for with bond dollars, were discussed by a department director at a study session that week.
The Chandler City Council approved three contracts for redrilling of a water well and one for rehabilitation of a lift station Aug. 13. The four contracts total more than $3 million.
Public Works Director Jeremy Abbott discussed the aquifer storage and recovery well No. 8, which he told Council “has failed.”
The well and the lift station both happen to be in the Tumbleweed Park area.
“We intend to redrill and replace ASR-8 within 100 feet of its current location,” Abbott told the council. “Fortunately, it’s going to be close enough to some of our electrical equipment that we can re-use that without moving it.”
The well is within the City of Chandler Parks and Facilities Services Center and Aquatic Administration facility. It’s been taken out of service due to excessive sand pumping, rendering it unusable, Abbott said.
A staff report states ASR wells are equipped with specialized pumping systems that are capable of recovering stored effluent water from an aquifer when irrigation demands are high, and can deliver water to reclaimed water customers.
The main contract for drilling and installing the new well is Weber Water Resources for about $2.355 million. The construction management contract is for about $643,000 and is with Wilson Engineers.
Matrix New World Engineering will handle the construction management services for $232,000.
The rehabilitation for the lift station, on the southeast corner of Germann Road and Hamilton Street, is still in the design stage. CDM Smith Inc. will design the project for about $293,000, according to a staff report.
Staff reports do not explain the function of a lift station, but state the Germann/Hamilton station was built in 2007 and has experienced notable degradation over nearly two decades of operation, needing new piping, pumps and appurtenances. It also needs a “condition assessment of the existing wet well coatings,” reports state.
Jason W. Brooks News Editor | Chandler Independent
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