City of Columbus - File #: 1312-2017

• File #: 1312-2017
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/9/2017
• In control: Public Utilities Committee
• On agenda: 6/12/2017
• Final action: 6/14/2017
• Title: To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a professional engineering services agreement with Prime AE Group, Inc. for the Lockbourne Intermodal Subtrunk Extension project; to authorize the appropriation and transfer of $2,477,083.44 from the Sanitary Sewer Reserve Fund to the Ohio Water Development (OWDA) Loan Fund; and to authorize the expenditure of up to $2,477,083.44 from the loan fund for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage. ($2,477,083.44)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/14/2017	1	CITY CLERK	Attest
6/13/2017	1	MAYOR	Signed
6/12/2017	1	COUNCIL PRESIDENT	Signed
6/12/2017	1	Columbus City Council	Approved	Pass
6/5/2017	1	Columbus City Council	Read for the First Time

Explanation

1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into an engineering agreement with Prime AE Group, Inc. for the Lockbourne Intermodal Subtrunk Extension project, CIP 650491-100007. The project will start from the planned end of the Lockbourne Intermodal Subtrunk of the 60” sanitary subtrunk near the entrance to the Norfolk Southern Intermodal Facility located at 3329 Thoroughbred Ct, Columbus, OH 43221 and continue easterly along Air Base Rd. to its upstream termination point near the intersection with Walnut Creek Pike for an approximate distance of 12,750 Linear Feet. It is intended to serve the Intermodal and Rickenbacker Southeast service areas as described in the Northern Pickaway Joint Economic Development District (JEDD) Agreement. Due to the high traffic volumes to the intermodal facility and the recently widened Rickenbacker Parkway, it is anticipated that trenchless construction methods will be needed for the first stage of the project in order to clear these items so as not to impact railroad operations or the newly constructed roadway while the remainder would be constructed via traditional open cut methods. The project will also include master planning efforts for the area in order to establish a more comprehensive and defined approach to providing sanitary sewer service to the area. Due to the tributary area for the Intermodal Sanitary Subtrunk Extension already being known, it is expected that the design and master planning efforts will run concurrently.

This project has been approved for below market-rate loan financing through the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s Water Pollution Control Loan Fund (WPCLF) which is administered by the Ohio Water Development Authority (OWDA). Ordinance 2241-2015, passed October 19, 2015, authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a WPCLF Loan for the project. The project’s assigned WPCLF Number is CS390274-0258. Upon the loan award, wh...