Agenda for Council Meeting  January 22, 2013

3. Resolution No. R2013-02, a resolution to make adjustments to appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures of the City of Middletown, Counties of Butler and Warren, State of Ohio, for the period ending December 31, 2013 and declaring this an emergency measure. (Wellfield Protection Fund)

Work Book  for Council Meeting  January 22, 2013

RESOLUTION NO. R2013-02
A RESOLUTION TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO APPROPRIATIONS FOR CURRENT EXPENSES AND OTHER EXPENDITURES OF THE CITY OF MIDDLETOWN, COUNTIES OF BUTLER AND WARREN, STATE OF OHIO, FOR THE PERIOD ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2013 AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. (WELLFIELD PROTECTION FUND)

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Middletown, Butler/Warren Counties, Ohio that:
Section 1
The following sums are hereby appropriated from the Wellfield Protection Fund of the City to accounts of the City for the purposes herein described as follows:
FROM: Unappropriated Wellfield Protection Fund (Fund #546) $141,638.00
TOTAL WELLFIELD PROTECTION FUND $141,638.00
TO: Accounts of 990 (546.990.52480) $141,638.00

Section 2
The Director of Finance is hereby authorized to draw his warrants on the City Treasurer for payments from any of the foregoing appropriations upon receiving proper certificates and vouchers therefore, approved by the Board of Officers authorized by law to approve the same, or an ordinance or resolution of the City Council to make expenditures provided that no warrants shall be drawn or paid for salaries or wages except to persons employed by authority of and in accordance with law or ordinance.

Section 3
All legislation inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed.

Section 4
This resolution is declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health, safety and general welfare, to wit: to permit appropriation of the funds so certain contracts can be signed and work begun, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its adoption.

_____________________________

Lawrence P. Mulligan, Jr., Mayor
Adopted: ________________
Attest: ____________________
Clerk of City Council
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S T A F F R E P O R T
For the Business Meeting of January 22, 2013
January 16, 2013
TO: Judith A. Gilleland, City Manager
FROM: Preston M. Combs, Interim Director of Public Works & Utilities
Denise Hamet, Economics Development Director

PURPOSE
The purpose of this staff report is to request a supplemental appropriation for the transition for the environmental management of the former Aeronca site from SRW Environmental Services, Inc., to CH2M Hill.

BACKGROUND and FINDINGS
In December 2012, a contract in the amount of $141,638 was awarded to CH2M Hill for the purpose of providing engineering services related to the remediation of the former Aeronca site. During processing, it was discovered that adequate funds were not appropriated. This supplemental allows the additional expenditure to be appropriated from the Wellfield Protection Fund (#546). There is presently $1,700,000 unappropriated in this fund.

FINANCIAL IMPACT
This project is budgeted for 2013 to be paid from the Wellfield Protection Fund.

ALTERNATIVES
This is a paper trail issue only

CONFORMITY TO CITY POLICY
Conforms.

SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION - THE AERONCA PROJECT
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES CONTRACT

OKI GROUNDWATER COMMITTEE MEETING SUMMARY

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

OKI Board Room – 10:00 a.m.
Local Groundwater Management Updates

Scott Belcher from Middletown explained that the Aeronca site northeast of the city’s wellfield had created some contamination which is being addressed with bio-remediation. Test wells indicate that the injection of live organisms to assist in cleaning the site is working and it will be an ongoing process. Scott also reported that the city is in the process of cleaning two wells in their well field, which is proving to be less costly than previous cleaning, which used blasting with primer cord (RDX detonating cord) to break up sediment to bring the well back. The roof on the water treatment plant is in need of replacement and Middletown will submit a request for stimulus funds to replace it.

OKI GROUNDWATER COMMITTEE MEETING SUMMARY

Wednesday, March 1, 2006

OKI Board Room – 10:00 am

Updates on Local Groundwater Management Efforts

Scott Belcher, City of Middletown, gave an update on wellhead protection efforts to date. A good deal of effort has been concentrated on the bioremediation of the Aeronca site that is located in the wellhead protection area. It is the site of an aircraft manufacturing plant from the 40’s and 50’s that is still located on the land. They no longer make aircraft, but they still manufacture parts. The old part of the building has been torn down. Middletown’s consultant, CH2M Hill, has been monitoring a plume of contamination of TCE, possibly from the underground storage of a degreaser on the site in the past.

To remediate this site, they are using CL-out, which is a live freeze dried organism that occurs naturally in the earth’s ecosystem. CL-out contains a highly-concentrated solution of live, patented strains of lyophilized (freeze-dried) Pseudomonas organisms that occur naturally in the earth’s ecosystem. These cultures are free of pathogens and there is no artificial mutation or genetic engineering involved. Extracted from a oncecontaminated site and isolated under controlled laboratory conditions, these “hungry bacteria®” have only one purpose in life: to seek and destroy contaminated waste at its source, and then quickly convert it into harmless, naturally recyclable by-products.

Pilot injections of CL-Out to determine its effectiveness on the TCE contamination resulted in a 70% decrease in the pilot testing well placed downgradient of the injection wells. Full-scale injections will begin in the spring to remediate the TCE plume. Other recent accomplishments are: 1) Installation of three additional monitoring wells in response to the discovery of the TCE contamination emanating from the former Aeronca facility; 2) Adding the new wells to the City’s annual sampling and analysis plan. 3) Currently evaluating data from the last 9 years of WHP sampling to refine and 3 reduce the frequency outlined in the sampling and analysis plan. Funding for remediation is coming from a $3 million Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund (CORF) grant.