Agmt21 National Plant Services Inc. Agreement signed

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the current commercial rate for a 3" meter, which is $480.85, in addition to the actual water usage. b. The receipt of payment shall be taken to the City's Public Works Department 1400 Broadway, Redwood City, to pick up the water meter. 7. The CONSULTANT shall remove all sludge, dirt, sand, rocks, roots, grease and other solid or semisolid material resulting from the cleaning operation at the downstream manhole of the section being cleaned. Procedure for removing roots may include the use of mechanical equipment such as rodding machines and bucket machines using root cutters and porcupines. Passing material from manhole section to manhole section, which could cause line stoppages, accumulations of sand in wet wells, or damage pumping equipment, shall not be permitted. Chemical root treatment shall not be used by the CONTRACTOR. 8. The CONSULTANT shall dispose all solids or semisolids resulting from the cleaning operations from the site at a suitably sanitary landfill site as defined by the Titles 22 and 23 of the California Administrative Code. Under no circumstances will the CONSULTANT will be allowed to accumulate debris on the site. The CONSULTANT will be allowed to store a debris container in the City Public Works Services Division corporation yard. Cost for removal and disposal of solids shall be included in the proposal. 9. If the CONSULTANT encounters a surcharging manhole (flow exceeds the diameter of the sewer pipe), the CONSULTANT shall clear the blockage and shall immediately notify the City Public Works Services Department at (650-780-7464) and provide information on the cause of the blockage once completed. Cost for handling and cleaning of surcharging manhole shall be included in the proposal. 10. The CONSULTANT shall prevent contract operations from causing a stoppage or overflow. In the event of a stoppage or overflow, the CONSULTANT shall immediately notify the City Public Works Department at (650-780-7464). The CONSULTANT shall remove the stoppage and contain and mitigate the overflow. Overflows shall be mitigated to the City's standards including property damage overflows that shall require cleaning and restoration. All costs for damages occasioned by the overflow are the responsibility of the CONSULTANT. 11. The CONSULTANT shall use a 180 -degree rotating head color camera for pipe sizes 6 inch and larger in diameter. The color camera shall be operative under 100 percent humidity conditions in the sewer. The center of the camera lens shall be at or above the spring line of the sewer being televised. The camera and ancillary equipment shall not block the sewage flow at any time. In cases where it will not be possible to remove a trapped camera by excavation of a sewer line, a tag line shall be attached to each end of the camera to allow the camera to be pulled out from either end. If the camera gets stuck in the sewer pipeline, the CONSULTANT shall be responsible for all costs involved in extracting it, and shall extract the equipment in a timely manner in order to avoid interruption to sewer flow. The CONSULTANT shall call the Community Development Department Engineering and Transportation Division at (650) 780-7380 to notify of the situation. 12. Lighting and camera quality shall be suitable to allow a clear in -focus picture for a minimum of six lineal feet of the entire inside periphery of the sewer pipe. The camera shall have a minimum capability of 350 lines of resolution and should be of the "articulating head" type to allow laterals and defects to be viewed directly. To ensure peak picture quality throughout all conditions encountered during the survey, a variable intensity control of the camera lights and remote control adjustments for focus and iris shall be located at the monitoring station. Focal distance shall be adjustable through a range of from six inches to infinity. Continuously REV: 05-18-2021 VR ATTY/AGR.2021.111/National Plant Services Inc. (Page 12 of 17)