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ORDINANCE NO. 2001- 148 BY.• MAYOR NORMAN T. M(ISIAL AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH BOWKER & ASSOCIATES, ING TO PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AS AN ODOR CONTROL SYSTEMS CONSULTANT FOR EVALUATING THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT ODOR CONTROL GROUPS AND FOR RECOMMENDING NEW OPERATIONS MONITORING EQUIPMENT, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. N'HEREAS, the City of North Olmsted completed the direct purchase of a complete high speed, solids, solid bowl dewatering centrifuge system in February 2001; and WHEREAS, the City of North Olmsted was able to abandon the routine use of the largest source of odors at the Wastewater Treatment Plant a.fter completion of the Yard Piping and Sludge Loadout Building (SLB) Modifications Contract in Apri12001 and the installation of the directly purchased complete high speed, high solids, solid bowl dewatering centrifuge system inside the modified Sludge Loadout Building in late April 2001; and WHEREAS, numerous residual wastewater odor complaints were received by the City of North Olmsted following completion of the Apri12000 work; and WHEREAS, the existing monitoring equipment for both odor groups at the Wastewater Treatment Plant were installed in 1986 and have been demonstrated to be inadequate for controlling wastewater odors during the summer of 2001; and WHEREAS, the City of North Olmsted has purchased and received new media for installation in the first stage scrubber of Odor Group A in January 2002; and WHEREAS, the City of North Olmsted has received a proposal from Bowker & Associates, Inc. for completion of an evaluation of both odor groups at the Wastewater Treatment Plant; and WHEREAS, Bowker & Associates, Inc. has the demonstrated knowledge for completing an evalua.tion of both odor goups at the Wastewater Treatment Plant.