Agenda Item
City Council
Item #: 3.6. 12/13/2022 File #: 22-0689
TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THRU: Tom Kisela, Interim City Manager
FROM: Christopher Cash, Public Works Director
1. SUBJECT
Appropriation of $530,000 in Comprehensive Transportation Funding Programs - Project X Tier 1 2022 Environmental Cleanup Program fund and Sanitation and Sewer fund for the Taft Avenue & Lewis Street Water Quality Storm Drain Improvement Project.
2. SUMMARY
The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) approved the allocation of Tier 1 Environmental Cleanup Program funding and has pre-awarded the City of Orange $400,000 for the Taft Avenue & Lewis Street Water Quality Storm Drain Improvement Project. The City intends to use this funding to install a hydrodynamic separator on Taft Avenue and Connector Pipe Screens on Taft Avenue and Lewis Street.
3. RECOMMENDED ACTION
1. Accept into the City’s revenue budget $400,000 in grant funds from the OCTA Tier 1 Environmental Cleanup Program, into revenue account number 550.5011.45460.30215, Reimbursable Capital Projects - Taft Avenue & Lewis Street Water Quality Storm Drain Improvement Project.
2. Authorize the appropriation of $400,000 to expenditure account number 550.5011.56340.30215, Reimbursable Capital Projects - Taft Avenue & Lewis Street Water Quality Storm Drain Improvement Project.
3. Authorize the appropriation of $130,000 to expenditure account number 220.5011.56340.30215, Sanitation and Sewer - Taft Avenue & Lewis Street Water Quality Storm Drain Improvement Project.
4. FISCAL IMPACT
The total expenditure for this project is $530,000 and will be funded in “TaftAvenue & Lewis Street Water Quality Storm Drain Improvement Project” (30215) through:
Sanitation and Sewer (220) $130,000
Reimbursable Capital Projects (550) 400,000
Total: $530,000
5. STRATEGIC PLAN GOALS
Goal 1: Provide for a safe community
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b: Provide and maintain infrastructure necessary to ensure the safety of the public.
Goal 4: Provide outstanding public service
b: Provide facilities and services to meet customer expectations.
6. DISCUSSION AND BACKGROUND
The City of Orange Public Works Department applied for and received funds through Environmental Cleanup Tier 1 Grant Program managed by the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA). This program is a competitive grant program within Orange County that makes funds available to soliciting cities to help protect Orange County beaches and waterways from transportation-generated pollution and improve overall water quality. The City has been awarded $400,000 for installing a hydrodynamic separator on Taft Avenue and Connector Pipe Screens on Taft Avenue and Lewis Street.
The project collects drainage from a total of 354 acres composed of commercial, bus stop locations, light manufacturing, industrial manufacturing, multi-family homes, and single-family home sections of Orange. These areas combine to generate potentially significant amounts of leaves, trash and other debris. The City has looked at various options to control trash and debris. Through the Orange Municipal Code, the City can enforce sections related to littering and nuisances and its weekly street sweeping program picks up a large amount of trash and debris. However, anything not collected by the street sweepers has the potential to enter the storm drain system and impact the downstream water bodies. The proposed Debris Separating Baffle Box (DSBB) is a Continuous Deflection Separator (CDS) unit, and helps address this deficiency by capturing trash and debris and other gross pollutants via its trash screens, sediment chambers, and the use of an oil skimmer and hydrocarbon boom filters. The DSBB will be placed on Taft Avenue just east of the Taft Avenue/O’DonnellWay intersection. The proposed connector pipe screen (CPS) units also help solve this deficiency by capturing trash and debris and other pollutants within each catch basin. The CPS will be installed in seven (7) catch basins on Taft Avenue, and Lewis Street.
The total project cost is estimated at $530,000, including 5% for design, 5% for construction engineering and 10% for contingency.
Construction is scheduled to begin in March 2023 and is expected to be completed by September 2023.
7. ATTACHMENTS
· OCTA ECP Project X Tier 1 2022 Programming Recommendations City of Orange Printed on 12/8/2022Page 2 of 2
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