City of Tyler issued the following announcement.
The City Council received an update on the Consent Decree including the status of completed and ongoing projects and the planned work that will be happening to the City’s sanitary sewer system in the coming year.
In 2017, the City of Tyler entered into a Consent Decree with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address the City’s aging wastewater collection system and resulting discharges. The Consent Decree became effective on April 10, 2017.
In addition to the update, the City Council voted unanimously to authorize the City Manager to execute two engineering services contracts with Adams Engineers and Development Consultants for Consent Decree work on the sanitary sewer system.
The Consent Decree force main and air release valve inspection and design project contact in the amount of $141,840 includes visual on-site inspections of about 94,360 linear feet of force main, or pressurized sewer pipe routes, about 27 air relief valves or vaults, and one check valve. Another goal of the contract is to replace portions of lines where defects are found during the inspection.
“Annual inspections of the force mains and air relief valves are required as part of the Consent Decree,” said Utilities Engineer Tiffany Currie. “Additionally, deficiencies that are observed in the system during these inspections are required to be remediated.”
The sanitary sewer line relocation design contract in the amount of $99,680 includes the design and description of work needed to relocate about 1,210 linear feet of 10-inch sanitary sewer line. The line is in disrepair and located in the 2800 block of Southwest Loop 323.
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