Tempe City Council recently voted to award a $4.52 million contract to environmental engineering firm Hazen & Sawyer, P.C. to provide professional services for the reactivation of the Kyrene Water Reclamation Facility.
Council voted on the contract during its March 27 meeting, with the motion passing unanimously 7-0. No public comment or council discussion was heard on the item.
Decima Sever, public works administrative manager, explained in a city staff report that the funds for the contract and related expenses have been appropriated for fiscal year 2024/25 and future years.
The city’s Kyrene Water Reclamation Facility was first constructed in 1991, but it has been offline since 2010. Since its closure, all of Tempe’s wastewater has been treated and reused at the 91st Avenue Wastewater Treatment Plant in Phoenix.
Tempe is in the process of reactivating the facility, which will enable the city to treat and utilize an average daily flow of up to 4.5 million gallons of reclaimed water to support its long-term assured water supply.
“When reactivated, reclaimed water from the KWRF will be used to recharge the aquifer in Tempe, provided for cooling water at Salt River Project’s Kyrene Generating Station and can be used as irrigation at the Ken McDonald Golf Course,” Sever stated.
Sever noted that with this contract, reuse and recharge systems are not included in Hazen & Sawyer’s scope of work, and they are being planned and constructed separately.
Hazen & Sawyer will be responsible for construction management services, which includes conducting weekly construction meetings, reviewing shop drawings and requests for information and issue design clarification and requests for proposals.
Other services to be provided include conducting field inspections with daily reports, preparing weekly summary reports, conducting a final inspection, creating a facility operation and maintenance manual, providing training to staff on plant operations, and assisting the city with any warranty-related issues and coordinating with the contractor.
Hazen & Sawyer is the design engineer of the project, according to its website, and will be responsible for restoring the facility and adding a modernized membrane bioreactor system to “meet the facility’s needs in a cost-effective manner.”
The fully restored Kyrene Water Reclamation Facility is expected to open in 2026.
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