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Resolution to Approve a Professional Services Agreement with Tetra Tech of Michigan, P.C. to Complete a Comprehensive Stormwater Management Plan and SWMM Stormwater Model Migration, RFP No. 23-63 ($538,054.00)
Memorandum
Your approval is requested for a Professional Services Agreement with Tetra Tech of Michigan, P.C. in the amount of $538,054.00 for professional engineering services to complete a Comprehensive Stormwater Management Plan.
Ann Arbor's municipal stormwater management program utilizes science, recognized standards and best practices, and system data to evaluate, analyze and inform planning for system operations, maintenance, improvements, rehabilitation and eventual replacement. This approach has resulted in achieving the level and methods of stormwater management that property owners and other stakeholders in the community have expressed as being desirable in prior studies conducted in 2008 and 2018. However, more recently, property owners, residents, and businesses are experiencing storm events that are more frequent and of significantly greater magnitude due to climate change. This trend is expected to continue in the future and potentially worsen. As a result, there is a need to plan for and create resiliency in the utility system infrastructure that manages stormwater for properties in the City that use the system. The City's existing approach to managing stormwater is made up of several studies and various creekshed plans.
Staff will be creating the City's first Comprehensive Stormwater Management Plan, the first of its kind in the Great Lakes Region. This hallmark Plan will incorporate and align all existing plans and studies into a single plan that not only provides a cohesive philosophy to guide staff and inform decisions, but that also incorporates resiliency and climate adaptation strategies as key elements of decision-making and design.
This project will validate and document the City of Ann Arbor's approach for how stormwat...
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