Board of Estimate & Contract:
RESOLVED, that an ordinance adopted by the City Council on February 26, 2025, and signed by the Mayor on February 27, 2025, authorizing the Award of a Contract of the Edison Avenue Pump Station Upgrade Project - Equipment Procurement (Contract 122232024) - (awarded to Mace Contracting for $475,000, eligible for funding through the NYS Environmental Facilities Corporation Grant H8120.203 C957 EQUIP and H3990 C957 State Aid Sewer); be, and the same is hereby approved.
City Council:
AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE AWARD
OF A CONTRACT FOR THE EDISON AVENUE
PUMP STATION UPGRADE PROJECT - EQUIPMENT
PROCUREMENT (CONTRACT 12232024)
Whereas, by letter dated February 4, 2025, the Commissioner of the Department of Public Works has requested legislation authorizing the award of Contract 12232024 for the Edison Avenue Pump Station Upgrade Project - Equipment Procurement to Mace Contracting, for $475,000; and
Whereas, the City of Mount Vernon (the "City") operates the Edison Avenue Pump Station, which collects wastewater from five properties, primarily industrial businesses; and
Whereas, the City is required to upgrade the Edison Avenue Pump Station pursuant to a Consent Decree entered into by the City, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), and the Department of Justice, addressing illicit discharges to the Bronx and Hutchinson Rivers (Case 7:18-cv-05845-CS); and
Whereas, these upgrades are necessary to mitigate historic sanitary sewer overflows that discharged into the storm sewer system and ultimately into the Hutchinson River, to raise pump station controls and emergency generators above the 100-year flood plain; and
Whereas, the Consent Decree mandates that the required upgrades must be completed by June 30, 2025, and failure to meet this deadline may subject the City to civil and stipulated penalties; and
Whereas, the City ...
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