Oxnard-- The city council, Tuesday, April 19, approved amendment agreement A-8332 with SPI (Separation Processes Inc) for the Groundwater Desalter Improvement Project.
THE approval executes a first amendment to the agreement in the amount of $263,702 for a new contract not to exceed $1.064 million for additional design work required for the groundwater desalter improvement project.
The deal also approves a $263,703 budget appropriation transfer from the Water Appropriations to the Capital Water Project.
City Engineer Tatiana Arnout presented the item to the council, and she said the original scope of work with SPI for the groundwater desalting project included solutions to operational issues that included submerging the RO Membranes, hydraulic restrictions, valves and actuators, air release valves, and getting traffic-related grating in key areas.
“We did hold several meetings with operators as part of the development of the preliminary design report,” she said. “This is a pretty typical process that we take with any consultants as we’re working with our utilities, especially. We want to make sure that our operators are involved in key milestones for projects to make sure that whatever it is that both the engineers and consultants of the engineers are working with make sense…
