Explanation
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to execute contract modification No. 19 to the Organic Waste Processing Agreement between the City of Columbus (City) and Kurtz Brothers Central Ohio, LLC (Kurtz).
Fixed Rate Sewerage Sludge Processing Term:
The contract continues a fixed rate fee of $33.50 per wet ton of sewerage sludge processing for the duration of this contract (10 years + 5 year extension). This contract authorizes the transfer to the organic waste recovery and reuse system of up to 25,000 wet tons of sewerage sludge per year at this rate. This contract provides DOSD with an additional beneficial alternative use option for sewerage sludge.
Log Grinding:
The contract adds a provision to fund log grinding services utilizing funds originally intended for hauling incinerator ash as part of a beneficial reuse program at the City’s two wastewater treatment plants. Incinerator ash had been historically stored at the treatment plants in lagoons and land filled at considerable expense to DOSD. This program allowed for up to 5,000 tons of wastewater treatment incinerator ash a year to be removed and adapted for beneficial reuse at a rate of $30.97 per ton, which was less than the land filing cost to the City. However, in 2015, the City ceased incineration of sewerage sludge, and thus incinerator ash generation, prior to the end of the contract.
Ash Hauling:
This modification increases the contracted amount for ash hauling per terms of the City and Kurtz’s negotiation over the remaining one-year of that provision of the contract. The City ceased incorporation of incinerator ash into its compost product ahead of that provision of the contract’s end date, and these funds, in addition to the aforementioned log grinding, are the negotiated alternative.
1. Amount of additional funds: The amount of additional funds needed for this contract is $500,000.00. The total City cost of the original contrac...
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