Professional Services Agreement - American Structurepoint Inc - Wellhead Protection Plan

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Ms. Smith May 9, 2019 Page 2 There is a need to outline approved or disallowed activities in wellhead protection areas and make suggestions for city or county ordinances that would improve the protection areas meaningfulness. • Create a desktop exercise or emergency response training activity or outline that can be used by the City of South Bend. Our proposal is based on these assumptions. To prepare the 5-year update to the South Bend Water Works Wellhead Protection Plan, we propose the following scope of work. PROJECT SCOPE 1. Project Research and Coordination As an initial step in this project, American Structurepoint will review the approved wellhead protection plan, including the wellhead protection area delineations to obtain a thorough understanding of the planning and management objectives of the program. We will also meet with representatives from the South Bend Water Works and other stakeholders to understand the goals and status of the implementation activities over the past five years. Key coordination efforts will include: a. Outlining with the appropriate City of South Bend personnel to discuss the wellhead protection planning objectives, requirements and achievable goals. b. The utilization of previous knowledge and information that can be made available to update the plan. c. Local knowledge of high capacity water users, potential contaminant sources (PCS), and other ongoing inquiries or concerns for the wellhead protection areas. 2. Wellhead Protection Area Delineation/Capture Zone Modeling The 5-year update requirements indicate a review of recent well pumping needs to be performed, including an analysis of the production data for the previous five years. This task will include two components — evaluation of production data for the past five years for all wellfields, and re - delineation of the North Wellfield due to development of new wells in this wellfield and the installation of nearby high capacity wells at the hospital. At this time it is assumed the north well field is the only well field that will need to be re -delineated. If additional well fields are to be re - delineated a new scope of work will be determined and submitted for revision to the original agreement at that time. a. Well Production Data Evaluation We will assess the available pumping data for the full annual periods from 2013-2018 to evaluate actual pumping versus estimated pumping as modeled in the wellhead protection area (WHPA) delineation. We will coordinate this analysis with the IDEM Drinking Water Branch to obtain concurrence of which well fields might need a new delineation. b. North Wellfield Re -Delineation 2019.00828