25B - AGMT - CLOSED CIRCUIT TV INSPECTION OF SEWER

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size of the pipe, the name of the street, the time of day and the project or location name as supplied by the City shall be displayed continuously on the monitor and recorded on the video. The color of the overlay information shall be adjusted so that it remains legible throughout the run. The footage relative to the center of the manhole at the start of each run shall be set to accurately reflect a center of manhole starting position of 0.00 feet regardless of where along the pipe and at what footage the run begins. 4. Digitally encoded video shall be compressed with the WMV format with settings specified by the City. Digital video shall be supplied to the City on stand-alone, hard disk drive systems with plug-and-play capable USB connections. Digital video files, Microsoft Access Database files, PDF report files and disk directory naming conventions on Contractor-supplied hard disk systems shall be approved by the City prior to the commencement of work. All disks and related components will become property of the City and shall be included in the unit pricing for producing digital sewer video. 5. Every sewer main assessment shall begin with a view of the open manhole and shall proceed uninterrupted in the downstream direction with the insertion of the camera into the manhole with the subsequent sewer main assessment. Recording of video against the flow or passing through interim manholes will only be allowed with prior approval of the City or when it can be shown that conditions made it unfeasible to lift an interim manhole cover or to record with the flow. 6. CCTV inspection, monitoring and recording shall only be performed by technicians that are NASSCO certified with a minimum of two years prior experience. The contractor shall furnish qualification details and sample video for each technician so that their involvement in the project can be approved by the City prior to the commencement of work. The use of a video technician not approved by the City will be considered sufficient cause for the rejection of any related work and any costs associated with rc- inspecting shall be at the Contractor's expense. 7. During inspection, the operating technician shall, along with an audio record of conditions, log a computerized assessment of the recorded sewer. This assessment shall include the location of all laterals, indicated infiltration, cracks, deflected joints, collapsed sections, ex-filtration, misalignment, roots, deposits, and other conditions or data pertinent to the physical condition of the sewer. 8. The computerized format shall be provided as a separate Microsoft Access database file for each quantity of digital video specified by the City. The contractor shall provide copies of the logs to the City in PDF format. The Microsoft Access database shall include the following: a) An inspection table listing each run number, the name of the operator, the inspection date, weather conditions, City supplied (the next sequential) database number, address or intersection of the starting manhole, direction of the inspection with respect to the flow, sewer number as supplied by the City, material (VCP, PVC, etc.), diameter of the sewer, length of the sewer, starting manhole ID number and the ending manhole ID number. b) An assessment table listing the run number, starting and ending footage of every observation, applicable assessment code, assessment code translation, additional remarks, starting and ending clock positions of observations where applicable. c) Tabular formats (table names, column names and data types, etc.) shall conform to specifications approved by the City. 9. The contractor shall submit the aforementioned video, and electronic reports summarizing all defects and conditions specified above to the City within 15 calendar days of completion of task. In addition, the contractor shall retain copies of both the digital video and logs, for a term no less than that specified for the agreement and shall make additional copies available to the City if the copies originally delivered to the City are found to be either defective or incomplete. Upon acceptance of the agreement, the contractor 10 25B-12