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AGENDA TITLE: Adopt Resolution Authorizing Purchase of Ultraviolet (UV) Light
Disinfection Lamps for White Slough Water Pollution Control Facilityfrom
Coombs-Hopkins/DC Frost, of Walnut Creek ($115,000)
MEETING DATE: December 17,2008
PREPARED BY: Public Works Director
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Adopt a resolution authorizing the purchase of ultraviolet (UV) light
disinfection lamps for the White Slough Water Pollution Control
Facility (WSWPCF) from Coombs-Hopkins/DC Frost, of
Walnut Creek, in the amount of $115,000.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: UV lamps are major components used in the disinfection system at
WSWPCF. The City no longer uses chlorine compounds to treat
wastewater.
To remain in compliance with its discharge permit, the City needs to install 725 new UV lamps in four
banks of the UV disinfection facility. The bulbs being replaced have reached the end of their useful life
The lampswill be supplied by Coombs-Hopkins/DC Frost, the representative for Trojan Technologies, Inc.,
the sole supplier of replacement parts for the system. The lamps will be installed by City staff.
FISCAL IMPACT: $115,000. Failing to install the lamps would subject the City to state fines.
FUNDING AVAILABLE: White SloAh ]Vater Pollution Control Facility Operating fund (170403).
Budget Manager
Prepared by Dei Kerlin. Wastewater Treatment Superintendent
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cc: D. Stephen Schwabauer. City Attorney
Del Kerlin, Wastewater Treatment Superintendent
Charles E. Swimley. Jr.. Water Services Manager
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F. Wally ndelin
Public Works Director
B I g, City Manager
12/72/2008
RESOLUTION NO. 2008-240
A RESOLUTION OF THE LODI CITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZING
PURCHASE OF ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT DISINFECTION LAMPS FOR
THE WHITE SLOUGH WATER POLLUTION CONTROL FACILITY
WHEREAS, ultraviolet (UV) light disinfection lamps are major components used in the
disinfection system at the White Slough Water Pollution Control Facility (WSWPCF). The City
no longer uses chlorine compounds to treat wastewater; and
WHEREAS, to remain in compliance with its discharge permit, the City needs to install
725 new UV lamps in four banks of the UV disinfection facility. The lamps being replaced have
reached the end of their useful life; and
WHEREAS, the lamps will be supplied by Coombs-Hopkins/DC Frost, the representative
for Trojan Technologies, Inc., the sole supplier of replacement parts for the UV system. City
staff will install the lamps; and
WHEREAS, failure to install the lamps would subject the City to state fines.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Lodi City Council does hereby
authorize the purchase of UV light disinfection lamps for the White Slough Water Pollution
Control Facility from Coombs-Hopkins/DC Frost, of Walnut Creek, California, in the amount of
$115,000.
Dated: December 17,2008
I hereby certify that Resolution No. 2008-240 was passed and adopted by the City
Council of the City of Lodi in a regular meeting held December 17, 2008, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — Hitchcock, Johnson, Katzakian, Mounce, and
Mayor Hansen
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS— None
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS— None
NQ HL
Jerk
2008-240