Glendale City Council Meeting Preview

Given the cost benefit of returned fees and materials to employing the collection agency over the years, the council will likely approve the contract extension.

WATER TREATMENT

Glendale Water & Power, under a deadline to establish a water treatment plan for three underground wells, will ask the City Council to extend a contract with a private engineering firm that is helping to realize the plan.

About 2,000 acre feet of water pumped from three underground wells each year contain higher-than-allowed levels of nitrate, and so Glendale Water & Power, under county health regulations, must develop a plan to directly treat the water before it enters the service system.

Currently, after the well water is blended with majority imports from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, nitrate levels fall well within safe drinking water standards. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is requiring a more direct nitrate treatment plan under permits issued to the city because less water from Metropolitan is used during the winter months.

The contract extension with a firm facilitating the treatment plan would add an additional $37,135 to the original scope work, bringing the total amount to $56,235.

WHAT TO EXPECT

The council will likely approve the contract extension since the nitrate plan is vital part of operating the three underground wells. The more water that Glendale Water & Power produces from local wells, the less it has to spend on imports from MWD, which currently stands at $508 per acre foot.