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Consider recommending that the Monterey County Water Resources Agency Board of Directors authorize the General Manager to enter into Amendment Number 4 to the Agreement for Services with Maggiora Bros. Drilling, Inc. for the Protection of Domestic Drinking Water Supplies for the Lower Salinas Valley Well Destruction Project (Groups B and E) to extend the term to December 31, 2027. (Staff: Amy Woodrow)
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Finance Committee:
a. Recommend that the Monterey County Water Resources Agency Board of Directors authorize the General Manager to enter into Amendment Number 4 to the Agreement for Services with Maggiora Bros. Drilling, Inc. for the Protection of Domestic Drinking Water Supplies for the Lower Salinas Valley Well Destruction Project (Groups B and E) to extend the term to December 31, 2027.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Since 2020, the Monterey County Water Resources Agency (“Agency”) has been working on the “Protection of Domestic Drinking Water Supplies for the Lower Salinas Valley” project (“Project”), which is partially funded by Proposition 1 - the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014 through Agreement No. D1912532 with the California State Water Resources Control Board (“Grant Agreement”).
The Project purpose is to destroy abandoned or inactive wells to prevent conduits that allow vertical migration of seawater- and nitrate-contaminated groundwater to aquifers with drinking water supply wells in the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin.
In order to implement the Project, the Agency completed a competitive bidding process in 2021 to retain a well drilling contractor or contractors. This process resulted in the award of contracts to Maggiora Bros. Drilling, Inc. and Pacific Coast Well Drilling, Inc. DBA Precision Hydro for provision of well destruction services. The Agency entered into an Agreement for Services with Maggiora Bros. Drilling, Inc. on September 15, 2021 (“Agreement for Se...
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