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REPORT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the City Manager January 28,20Q2 Subject Water Recycling Feasibility Study Recommendation By motion, approve Task Order No. 1 to the professional consulting engineering services agreement with Kennedy/Jenks Consultants Background Since the Dec. 3, 2001 study session Kennedy/Jenks has completed the final tasks in the scope of their current contract with the City for performing the Water Recycling Feasibility Study for the Redwood Shores Area. The final draft report has been circulated and project team / staff comments have been incorporated. Staff expects to forward the final report to the Council for review not later than Feb. 4, 2002. The consultant's recommendations to the Council will include moving rapidly to the next stages of financial feasibility, environmental review and to ultimately approve the construction of a new recycled water distribution system in Redwood Shores, with additional capacity for future delivery of recycled water south and west of the Shores. Council will recall that it is feasible to reduce demand on the Hetch Hetchy system by 1,000 to 1,200 AF/yr by implementing the Redwood Shores phase of this project. This could be accomplished as early as 2005. In the interim, a very promising opportunity has come to light that will require rapid City action in order to preserve future Council choices. CalTrans has requested that the City enter into an agreement to maintain a new bicycle path that will be included in the Highway 101 widening project from the frontage road adjacent to the San Carlos Airport south to the eastern end of Whipple Ave. (see companion staff report, "Maintenance Agreement with CalTrans for new Highway 101 Bicycle Path"). Staff has confirmed with CalTrans that we will be allowed to add design specifications for a large-diameter recycled water line to be installed under the bike path as it is constructed in 2003 to 2004. The Council's decision whether to budget for and award this element or not will not come until next year, but the opportunity to insert the necessary design into the CalTrans bid documents will close by early March 2002. The potential benefit of this addition to the "distribution puzzle" is enormous, in that it would provide a direct transmission line to the northern edge of the Bair Island / Bayfront / Seaport area, where several large developments are contemplated, and where a sizable market already exists for the use of recycled water. Therefore, staff recommends that the Council immediately authorize staff and Kennedy/Jenks via this task order to begin working directly with CalTrans, the San Mateo County Transportation Authority and their design consultants to conduct a pre-design study of the transmission line and develop a checklist of all technical requirements, permits, constraints and potential costs associated with the 1 of 2