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CITY OFSOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK So,you will see various projects similar to this year.We will spend some of this money on different street drainage corrections. We have some projects slated for further study and we have some neighborhood drainage issues that are a little more complex. Some retention basins haven't been maintained over the years and the City has inherited that, so we need to do some further investigation. We use this for looking at when we do the annual report for the South Bend Dam and miscellaneous drainage repairs. So, we'll have $500,000 allocated towards this and this (referencing a slide in the presentation)is our list of storm water drainage issues for neighborhoods. And then a portion of that funding in 2020 will be set aside for the St. Joseph River Bank stabilization project. We've been working on this project with the DNR. We received a feasibility study grant last year. So, we started working on that in the spring and we did a local match, but it's an eighty-twenty(80/20)match. We just found out we received the grant for the design phase which will start this fall. So, that is very exciting. We will then go forward and apply in 2020 for the construction phase. This is the Yukon and Riverside area where we have some deep and complex matters. Then there are some associated currents that, the way the water travels in the area,there is even a little bit of work that will need to be done on the opposite side on North Shore. She continued, The Waste Water Treatment Plant upgrades, as we move into 2020, we will begin to address some projects that are complementary to our Consent Decree and our Long-Term Control Plan goals. This upgrade project could almost be called final polishing stuff in the Waste Water Treatment Plant chain. As our water moves through the Plant, this final clarification step, we are going to do some rehabilitation to clarifiers one (1) through five (5). We did some recent improvements over the years if I remember,clarifiers six(6)and seven(7). So,we anticipate some similar benefits by doing the repairs on these clarifiers as well. One(1)of those benefits is it really helps to improve the reduction and the return equity of the sludge. Those return rates get better. and then you're using less power and your pumping operations are more efficient. There will be some structural repairs as well and also some safety improvements.This is estimated to be between $4 and $5 million. This is budgeted out of Sewage Works Capital Fund#642. Preceding, the final clarifiers are actually in the aeration basin. So, before the clarifiers are the aeration process. That is where all the good action happens and where the oxygen and organics are in the system. In this step, we will be doing a little bit of an improvement. $500,000 to $600,000 of work on Aeration Basins one (1) through four (4). These are actually influent channel gate. Some of the repairs are there. Some stop logs will be installed on the implement channel. There are some structural gate repairs at this and are not necessarily process improvements. She went on, Then the disinfection, over at the Disinfection Building, a little bit more spending here, between $1.6 and $2.2 million. Currently our disinfection system into the Waste Water Treatment Plant is rated to accommodate 77 million gallons a day. We anticipate that with all of these improvements,we will be able to push around 100 million gallons per day through the Waste Water Treatment Plant and during those extreme wet weather events. So, as the capacity goes up, and now that we have the ability to treat and handle, hydraulically, 100 million gallons per day, we also need the ability to disinfect. We have some challenges meeting contact time. There will be various improvements, again, some electronics, safety improvements, building improvements and data improvements. The Douglas Road Lift Station relocation project has come to us by way of the County, which widens Douglas Road to a four(4) lane section. Those are improvements to the intersections of Ironwood and Douglas, State Road 23 and Douglas, and so in that section, we have an existing lift station. It was originally constructed in the 1980s and it's going to have to be relocated due to this widening. So, our relocation is high-dollar because it includes right-of-way acquisition. Maybe even easements along Douglas Road. We will then also be upgrading it, too, EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION INCLUSION j EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 I I t)574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 7