STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Mobility Solutions, Infrastructure, and Sustainability
AGENDA DATE: April 14, 2021
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): All, Outside City Limits
DEPARTMENT: Water Utilities Department
EXECUTIVE: Majed Al-Ghafry
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SUBJECT
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Authorize a professional services contract with Freese and Nichols, Inc. for the dam safety consulting services contract - Not to exceed $1,064,384.00 - Financing: Storm Drainage Management Capital Construction Fund ($311,100.00), Water Construction Fund ($390,646.00), Park and Recreation Facilities Fund (2006 General Obligation Bond Funds) ($32,844.00), Park and Recreation (B) Fund (2017 General Obligation Bond Funds) ($191,413.00), High Hazard Potential Dam Hatfield Branch Fund ($23,224.00), High Hazard Potential Dam Lake Simonds Fund ($23,224.00), and High Hazard Potential Dams Lake Cliff Fund ($91,933.00)
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BACKGROUND
This action will authorize a professional services contract with Freese and Nichols, Inc. for engineering services involving eleven significant and high hazard dams owned by the City of Dallas. The City of Dallas (Dallas Water Utilities and Park & Recreation Department) owns numerous dams and levees, which impound water for flood control, water supply, and recreation purposes. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), the National Dam Safety Act, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have requirements and recommendations for dam and levee safety inspections, operations and maintenance programs, and Emergency Action Plans (EAPs). Twenty-four dams owned by the City of Dallas have been identified as subject to at least a part of these requirements. Eleven of those dams are classified as significant and high hazard dams by TCEQ.
This contract will provide safety inspections, tabletop exercises, and emergency dam safety engineering services for the City's significant and high hazard dams. TCEQ requires safety inspections fo...
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