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Adoption of Resolution Accepting a Grant of Easement to the City of Alameda from the Casitas Alameda Homeowners Association for a Sewer Pump Station Easement Located within the Common Area in Tract 2936 (Verdemar Drive and Flora Vista Drive) in Exchange for Valuable Consideration and Direct the Recording of the Grant of Easement. (Public Works 602)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Elizabeth D. Warmerdam, Interim City Manager
Re: Adoption of Resolution Accepting a Grant of Easement to the City of Alameda from the Casitas Alameda Homeowners Association for a Sewer Pump Station Easement Located within the Common Area in Tract 2936 (Verdemar Drive and Flora Vista Drive) in Exchange for Valuable Consideration and Direct the Recording of the Grant of Easement
BACKGROUND
In accordance with requirements of the Final Consent Decree arising out of the litigation concerning the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) lawsuit against the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD), the City of Alameda, and other jurisdictions, the Public Works Department is upgrading the City's existing sanitary sewer pump stations to limit public health impacts associated with sanitary sewer overflows and to improve reliability and safety. On February 15, 2011, the City Council awarded Schaaf & Wheeler a contract for engineering design services for the City of Alameda Sewer Pump Station Upgrades. On October 6, 2015, the City Council awarded a construction contract to Mountain Cascade for the Group 2 - Sewer Pump Station Renovations for Reliability and Safety Improvements Project ("Renovations Project").
There are six pump stations to be renovated as part of the renovations project. The Verdemar Pump Station, located in the common area within Tract 2936, requires a new 108 square-foot easement to expand the existing 180 square-foot easement already located on that property. The existing and proposed easements are on a 9.157 acr...
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