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JAN 18 1984 9Wx 55 PAA 8 6 of The Moorings be utilized. He was then engaged to prepare drawings and specifications for the proposed plant. Mr. Mendez displayed a chart of a basic plant and explained that a standard plant cannot always be dewatered. You could get a cheaper plant, but if you have to dewater one of the units, you have to put the whole plant out of service. He then displayed a chart of the site plan and described tertiary filters which,provide a highly polished effluent. He explained that when there is a plant upset and the conventional filters cannot handle it, it goes to these backup filters and the plant can still deliver a highly polished effluent. Mr. Mendez next described the chlorination process and noted that the sludge will be removed from the plant by truck. Chairman Scurlock requested that the technicalities be limited and that Mr. Mendez just tell us whether this is the most cost efficient operation. Mr. Mendez further explained the operation and stated that his opinion is that it is impossible to bring the existing plant into compliance to meet the DER regulations and still comply with the strict requirements of the planning and zoning requirements at the old site. He described what they are doing on the proposed site which he did not believe could be done on the existing site. He then explained.in detail how he arrived at his figures for the proposed plant, noting that the low bid for the 250,000 gpd plant as designed was a lump sum of $698,000. This was based on actual working drawings. In order to comply with zoning requirements, Mr. Mendez reported that he has made some changes and eliminated some items which reduced the bid $33,800, down to $652,070. Sixty percent, which is the figure in the Greeley & Hansen Report for the portion of the new plant that would apply to the new customers, would be $391,240, which is very close to the estimate of $400,000 to 61