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• Treatment • Recycled Water • Customer Retrofits • Civil Engineering Services • Geotechnical Engineering Services • Environmental Services • Mechanical (HVAC and Plumbing) • Structural Engineering • Architectural • Landscape Architectural and Irrigation • Electrical, Instrumentation and Control • Plan Check Services To keep the City aware of the status of the project, we will schedule and administrate design meetings and prepare monthly progress reports as appropriate for the assignment. The following are typical key issues which we believe must be addressed to successfully complete design services: • Meeting schedule • Coordination with City, and reviewing and permitting agencies • Utility coordination and conflict resolution • Potholing of conflicting utilities • Accounting for traffic control during alignment selection • Analyzing alignment alternatives • Providing construction phasing if necessary • Identifying options for pipeline rehabilitation • Hydraulic calculations • Facility layout • Operator safety • Maintenance friendly • Structure aesthetics match surrounding neighborhood Sample Project Approach We have provided a team that can respond to many types of water and wastewater system projects including large diameter steel water mains, PVC small mains, new wells and well retrofits, pump stations, pressure reducing stations, flow control facilities, and more. Each type of project requires its own specific approach. To illustrate our ability to perform, we have provided a detailed approach for a pipeline design that we previously completed. Meeting Project Schedule Tetra Tech has the necessary resources to rapidly deploy and meet aggressive project schedules. In addition, our Project Team has recent pipeline experience that includes many design and construction issues similar to your projects, placing our team high on the issues - resolution learning curve. Based on this experience, we have summarized several ways to expedite the project schedule for the various pipelines: • Perform survey and aerial work immediately by including an area that encompasses the alterative alignments rather than just the assumed alignment. Tetra Tech will not authorize the preparation of the topography until the final alignment has been approved. • Expedite the alignment analysis by using existing street plans, other construction plans, and field investigations for location of existing utilities. • Meet early with regulatory agencies to obtain permit requirements and construction constraints. • Findings related to alignment analysis will be presented to the City in memorandums based on logical segments prior to completion of the Preliminary Design Report. As alignments are approved, base maps will be prepared. • Processing of Caltrans and railroad permits can be a time-consuming and extensive process. To expedite these approvals, Tetra Tech will complete the design of any portion of the pipeline requiring these permits immediately once the alignment has been approved. This approach will provide the City with the maximum contingency in case difficulties arise in the permit process. Resolving Key Issues Agency Coordination: Immediately upon Notice -to -Proceed for each lateral, Tetra Tech will meet with the corresponding regulatory agencies to coordinate and define the agency requirements. Early coordination with Agencies and defining agency requirements in Specifications will result in less chance of Change Order. The following TETRA TECH Page 110