April 19, 2022
Public Works
DATE: April 19, 2022
TO: Mayor Butt and Members of the City Council
FROM:
Joe Leach, Director of Public Works
Subject: Contract with COWI North America regarding the Terminal Four Wharf Removal Project
FINANCIAL IMPACT: There will be no impact to the General Fund to this contract. The cost of this contract will be funded using grant funds awarded for the Terminal Four Wharf
Removal project by the State Coastal Conservancy
account #15436431-400652-23021.
PREVIOUS COUNCIL
ACTION:
March 16, 2021, and November 16, 2021
STATEMENT OF THE
ISSUE:
In March 2021, the City Council adopted a Final Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and
Reporting Program and accepted and appropriated two
State Coastal Conservancy (SCC) grants totaling
$4,150,000 to fund the Terminal Four Wharf Removal
Project. In addition, in November 2021, the City Council further accepted funds from permittees required to pay
mitigation funds related to their approved permits from the Bay Conservation and Development Commission
(BCDC).
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
APPROVE a sole-source contract with COWI North
America, in an amount not to exceed $279,140, to
prepare the final construction and technical specifications for bid documents for the Terminal 4 Wharf Removal
Project, to be funded by various grants awarded to the
City for this project – Public Works (Joe Leach 620-
5478).
AGENDA
REPORT
April 19, 2022
DISCUSSION:
The City has been planning the removal of the creosote-treated piles and deteriorated wharf decking and structures at the Terminal Four site for a number of years. The State Coastal Conservancy (SCC) has been supporting this project since 2017, primarily through facilitating funding and taking the lead on early design and environmental review. In June 2019, COWI North American (COWI) completed the 60% design and specifications for the project under contract with the SCC. The City will be carrying out the final project as the property owners and is seeking City Council approval to execute a sole source contract with COWI to complete the final construction and technical specifications for the bid documents for this project, with the goal of starting demolition work this Summer.
Terminal Four Wharf Removal Project
The Terminal Four Wharf Removal project consists of completing construction documents, demolishing derelict pilings, decking, and two buildings, and constructing enhanced rock slope protection, and monitoring at Terminal Four located at Point San Pablo, north of Point Molate.
The project is needed because the deteriorating warehouse, piles, decking, and debris of the Terminal Four Wharf currently pose a marine debris problem and a navigation hazard, and also continue to degrade and impair water and habitat quality. The existing debris and pile field inhibit the expansion of nearby eelgrass beds. When Pacific herring and other fish and marine invertebrates spawn on creosote-treated piles, exposure to polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are part of the creosote compound, results in adverse effects. In Pacific herring, these effects include developmental delays, degeneration, changes in movement, alterations to cardiac function in embryos, lower rate of hatching success, and skeletal defects in larvae.
This project will remove toxic creosote pilings from San Francisco Bay. The Terminal Four site is owned by the City of Richmond and is managed by the City’s Port. The site is located on the western shore of Richmond, California, about 2.5 miles northwest of the eastern end of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, and just south of the tip of Point San Pablo.
Public Works is seeking City Council approval to execute a sole source contract with COWI North America to c omplete the final construction and bid specification s for this project (Attachment 1). While a sole source was completed (Attachment 2), it should be noted that a Request for Services was issued by the State Coastal Conservancy in August 2017 in which COWI was retained as the engineer of record for the project, as part of the ESA team. Five proposals (Ducks Unlimited, Dudek, Terraphase, TRC, and ESA) were received, reviewed, and ranked based on their experience and skills related to the project.
SCC staff interviewed the three top ranked proposal teams- Ducks Unlimited, Terraphase, and ESA.
The ESA team was ranked as the top candidate for selection after the interviews. ESA and their subconsultant COWI had all the required experience, including past similar work April 19, 2022
on creating design plans and specs for creosote wharf demolition, developing habitat protection and enhancement plans for intertidal and subtidal habitats, and preparing California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and permit application materials. The required CEQA document for the project was adopted by the SCC in November 2020 and by the City in March 2021. Under ESA’s contract, COWI completed the 60 percent design and specs in June 2019, and City staff is seeking to execute a contract with COWI to complete the final construction and bid specification s for this project, with the goal of starting demolition work this Summer.
DOCUMENTS ATTACHED:
Attachment 1 – Contract
Attachment 2 – Sole Source Justification