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Consent Item Agenda INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF UTILITY SERVICES Date: December 29, 2014 To: Joseph A. Baird, County Administrator From: Vincent Burke, P.E., Director of Utility Services Prepared By: Arjuna Weragoda, P.E., Capital Projects Manager Aw Terry Southard, Utility Operations Manager Subject: First Amendment to Agreement for Annual Operations of the Biosolids Dewatering Facility, Sludge Dewatering, and Hauling With Synagro South, LLC. DESCRIPTIONS AND CONDITIONS: On February 16th, 2010, the Indian River County Board of County Commissioners (BCC) approved entering into an agreement with Synagro South, LLC., (Synagro) as the lowest, responsive, responsible bidder to operate the County Biosolids Dewatering Facility located at the County Landfill at 1350 74th Ave. SW, Vero Beach. This facility currently receives domestic residuals, septage and grease from Indian River County wastewater treatment facilities, local septic tank haulers, and recreational vehicles from residents. Synagro will operate the Biosolids Dewatering Facility and haul sludge from the three (3) County owned wastewater treatment facilities to the Biosolids Dewatering Facility. Synagro will also be responsible for dewatering the sludge and disposing of it in the County Landfill. The estimated annual quantity of sludge and septage is 30.0 million gallons. ANALYSIS: The original agreement entered into with Synagro stipulated for an initial term of twelve months, with the County retaining the option to extend the Agreement for up to four additional twelve month terms. Due to Synagro's competitive pricing the County opted to exercise all four (4) twelve month extensions. Now that all extensions have been exhausted and in order to provide the County with sufficient time to evaluate the existing operations and potential future operations in Advanced Sludge Treatment (AST) and procurement options for these services and the facility, it is necessary for the County to extend the Agreement for an additional twelve months. The additional time is required for the County to evaluate AST processes in order to improve sludge dewatering and to facilitate handling and ultimate disposal. Currently, the dewatered bio-solids are sent to the landfill for disposal. As part of Indian River County's effort to achieve the State regulated goal of 75% for re-cycling by year 2020, other mixed waste processing technologies are to be evaluated. Depending on the evaluation, which the County will be doing in conjunction with Kessler Consulting, Inc. (Work authorized in Work Order No.2 for Kessler Consulting, Inc. by the board at its regular meeting January 6, 2015) there may be an opportunity to use the bio-solids for composting or other aerobic digestion processes rather than landfilling the bio-solids. The twelve (12) month 52