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METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO
2009 BUDGET
MAINTENANCE & OPERATIONS - NORTH SERVICE AREA
2009 BUDGET NARRATIVE
The 2009 appropriation request for the North Service Area is $49,665,300, an increase of $2,465,900 or 5.2 percent from 2008.
The 2009 staffing level of 279 is an increase of six positions from 2008, one Senior Mechanical Engineer at the Hanover Park
WRP, one Management Analyst II, one Management Analyst I and one Senior Office Support Specialist at the North Side
WRP, transferred from the General Division, one Fireman-Oiler at the Hanover Park WRP, and one Operating Engineer II at
the Egan WRP, returning to work. There are three positions under the direction of M&O funded by the Stormwater
Management Fund.
The budget reflects an effort to address our main objectives:
• 100 percent compliance with NPDES Permit requirements. In 2007, percent permit compliance by plant was as follows:
North Side WRP (NSWRP), 100.00 percent; Egan WRP, 99.99 percent; Kirie WRP, 100.00 percent; and Hanover Park
WRP, 99.96 percent;
• Continued infrastructure improvements, rehabilitation, and replacement by a combination of Engineering and M&O
contracts;
• Continued implementation of the Engineering program consistent with the Master Plan.
NORTH SIDE WRP
• Continue the design phase of projects recommended under the Master Plan, which began in 2008. The most important is
the design and construction of a new secondary treatment battery under Contract 06-020-3P, Battery E. Battery E will be
the plant's fifth treatment battery, which includes primary settling tanks, aerations tanks, and final settling tanks. The
design based-loaded flow will be 105 MGD. Battery E will provide much needed redundancy to the NSWRP treatment
capacity and allow for future rehabilitation and upgrades of existing Batteries A, B, C and D, also recommended under the
Master Plan. The rehabilitation of the existing batteries cannot be started before redundant capacity is installed;
• Install an additional ammonia analyzer to compliment the two ammonia analyzers planned for installation in 2008 to
monitor ammonia levels in the raw sewage and Battery A mixed liquor. Online ammonia analyzers will help operating
staff to monitor treatment performance and prevent plant upsets;
• Continue with the ABB distributed control system upgrade and hardwiring project under a five-year sole source
agreement. In 2009, the work will cover Batteries C and D at the NSWRP. The upgrade will include controllers and
hardware replacement as well as software upgrades that will ensure system availability and reliability for at least twenty
years;
• Replace the Bristol communication equipment used for monitoring and control of the remote pumping stations, along
with the excitation system for six raw sewage pumps at the NSWRP;
• Rehabilitate the operating gallery buildings, including tuck pointing and masonry repairs. These repairs will ensure these
buildings will continue to provide service into the future;
• Continue to maintain the 4.2 acres of Native Prairie Landscape (NPL) and six rain gardens;
• Clean the Golf Glenview Sewer-Morton Grove Extension. This will reduce odors and restore the original flow capacity.
HANOVER PARK WRP
• Continue to aid in the design development of the Hanover Park WRP Master Plan, which began in 2008;
• Reroute existing raw sewage discharge to the retention ponds, and provide better control of primary waste to the digesters
without the use of airlifts, under Tertiary Filter Rehabilitation, New Pump Variable Frequency Drives and Other Plant
Improvements Contract 04-824-2P, in progress;
• Complete the repair and cleaning of the plant’s eight rapid sand filters. Two filters will be cleaned and repaired in 2009.
Six were cleaned and repaired in 2007;
• Procure and install a generator for the Bartlett Pump Station so that the station has an on-site second source of electric
power in the event of a power outage. Modify the Hanover Park WRP’s on-site generator so that emergency power will be
provided automatically;
• Drain, clean, and repair Digesters 1 and 2 in late 2008, under Cleaning of Anaerobic Digesters and Other Improvements
Contract 02-818-2P, which will improve digester gas containment and utilization. The option of dedicating one of these
digesters for processing food waste will be evaluated in 2009;
• Continue to develop and maintain "green initiatives", including seven acres of installed NPL, and investigate future rain
gardens.
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