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Introduction of Ordinance Approving a 15-Year Lease with Three Five-Year Extension Options with Teleport Communications of America, LLC for Conduit Space for One Innerduct Containing Fiber from the Intersection of Grand Street and Fortmann Way Across the Oakland Estuary to Coast Guard Island [Requires Four Affirmative Votes] (Alameda Municipal Power)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Jill Keimach, City Manager
Re: Introduction of Ordinance Approving a 15-Year Lease With Three Five-Year Extension Options With Teleport Communications of America, LLC for Conduit Space for One Innerduct Containing Fiber From the Intersection of Grand Street and Fortmann Way Across the Oakland Estuary to Coast Guard Island [Requires Four Votes]
BACKGROUND
Alameda Municipal Power (AMP) is responsible for providing electrical service to the City of Alameda, including Coast Guard Island (CGI). CGI was served by a single radial 12 kilovolt (kV) submarine cable traversing the Estuary between Alameda Island (near the corner of Chestnut Street and Clement Avenue) and CGI (south of Dennison Street). The age of the submarine cable, operational redundancy and desired maintenance capacity for the system had necessitated the construction of a second 12 kV feeder crossing from Grand Street in the Main Island to Spencer Road (near McCulloch Drive) on CGI.
The new electrical crossing, consisting of a bundle of three high density polyethylene (HDPE) conduits, was installed beneath the Estuary using Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) methods. One conduit is for a 12kV trunk feeder, a second conduit is empty for the installation of future electrical feeder lines, and a third conduit is for the installation of communication cables (e.g., fiber optics). The HDD is under the Estuary at a minimum depth of 60 feet below the proposed dredging limits.
On March 19, 2012, the Public Utilities Board (Board) authorized the award of a professional services contract to URS...
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