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Project Title:	Max Rhoads WWTP Sludge Process Improvements
Project Number:	SX21059055	AWMPC:	GRADD
Funding Status:	Fully Funded	Date Approved by AWMPC:
Project Status:	Pending	Primary County:	Daviess
Project Schedule:	Constructed	Planning Unit:	Daviess
E-ClearingHouse SAI:		ECH Status:
Primary System:	KY0020095 Regional Water Resource Agency - West	ADD WMC Contact:	Dana Garrett
Legal Applicant:	Regional Water Resource Agency
Entity Type:	Joint Sewer Agency

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Project Title:
Max Rhoads WWTP Sludge Process Improvements

Project Description:
Regional Water Resource Agency (RWRA) owns and operates the Max Rhoads WWTP (MRP) in Owensboro, KY. Secondary sludge resulting from the treatment process is currently dewatered and hauled to the local qualified landfill. Dewatering is currently accomplished by (2) belt filter presses and a sludge conveyor belt setup. The sludge piping supplying the press equipment, the press equipment itself and sludge conveyor systems are more than 15 years old and experience frequent systemic failures. These failures temporarily suspend pressing operations, require significant time, resources and expense to repair and dramatically effect plant microbiology conditions. Further, the existing equipment is quickly approaching a point in which critical component overhauls will need to be made at significant cost to keep the equipment functional. RWRA plans to replace the existing belt filter press equipment with a newer, more efficient pressing and conveyance system anticipated to increase dependability, decrease operational costs, reduce volume of sludge carried to the landfill and produce a cleaner, less hazardous/corrosive environment within the facility for employees charged with its operation. Additionally, the system is intended to be automated and incorporated into the MRP SCADA Control system for maximal energy efficiency gains and will utilize recycled process water from WWTP effluent.

Need For Project: Briefly describe how this project promotes public health or achieves and/or maintains compliance with the Clean Water Act or Safe Drinking Water Act:
Sludge age and Wasting are critical components to the effective operation of the MRP WWTP. The existing equipment is experiencing numerous and frequent failures that suspend wasting activities and upset the treatment process and resulting effluent quality. Newer equipment and advances in technology over the last 15 years promise efficiency gains in % dry cake hauled to landfills and will serve more reliably to mitigate potential upset to the treatment process due to equipment failures. It is anticipated that RWRA will experience a decrease in the number of loads hauled to landfills annually additionally saving on fuel consumption and related hauler C02 emissions. Additionally, it is anticipated that RWRA will see reductions in both electrical and water usage through the use of more efficient equipment. Finally, options for replacement that include either Screw Press or Centrifuge type de-watering equipment will markedly limit the amount of H2S released during operation and drastically improve the hazardous atmosphere for WWTP operators and contribute to a longer structural life for the surrounding building.

Project Alternatives:

Alternate A:

Note: If project includes the construction of a new treatment plant or upgrade to existing plant, please explain regionalization options here.

The alternative to a new, more modern system is to continue with the current out-dated belt press system for de-watering the sludge.   This would require substantial cost to overhaul existing equipment and components and would realize no improvement/gain over current operational costs or energy and water use efficiencies.  Notably, parts and components will become increasingly more difficult to procure as the existing units lose support from regional suppliers.  This alternate is not a desirable option give

Alternate B:

Entity Information
Entity Type:	Joint Sewer Agency
Entity Name:	Regional Water Resource Agency
PSC Group ID:
Office EMail:	joe.schepers@rwra.org
Web URL:	www.rwra.org
Office Phone:	270-687-8440	Fax:	270-687-8444

Entity Address Information
	Mail Address	Physical Address
Address Line 1:	1722 Pleasant Valley Rd
Address Line 2:
City, State Zip:	Owensboro , KY 42303

Entity Contact Information
Contact Type	Name	Title	EMail	Phone	Cell
Business Contact:	Joseph G. Schepers	Executive Director	joe.schepers@rwra.org	270-687-8440
Authorized Official:	Joseph G. Schepers	Executive Director	joe.schepers@rwra.org	270-687-8440

Information Source:	Kentucky Infrastructure Authority
Date Last Modified:	02.14.2024

Project Administrator (PA) Information

Name:	Skyler Stewart
Title:	Infrastructure Planner
Organization:	Green River Area Development District
EMail:	skylerstewart@gradd.com
Phone:	270-926-4433 Fax: 270-684-0714
Address Line 1:	300 GRADD Way
Address Line 2:
City, State Zip:	Owensboro , KY 42301

Applicant Contact (AC) Information

Name:	Victor J Cernius
Title:	Director of Operations
Organization:	Regional Water Resource Agency
EMail:	cerniusvj@rwra.org
Phone:	270-687-8450 Fax: 270-687-8444
Address Line 1:	2101 Grimes Ave
Address Line 2:
City, State Zip:	Owensboro , KY 42303

Project Engineer (PE) Information

This project requires a licensed Professional Engineer.

A Professional Engineer has been procured for this project.

Licensed Engineer Information

License Number:	PE 29119
PE Name:	Sean Michael O'Bryan
Firm Name:	Sean O'Bryan Engineering, LLC
Address Type:	Work
Address Line 1:	Regional Water Resource Agency
Address Line 2:	2101 Grimes Ave
Address Line 3:
City, State Zip:	Owensboro , KY 42303
License Status:	Current	Disciplinary Actions:	No
Issue Date:	12.18.2012	Expiration Date:	06.30.2024

Phone:	270∙297∙9211 Fax:
EMail:	obryansm@rwra.org

Engineering Firm Information
Permit Number:	5343
Firm Name:	Sean O'Bryan Engineering, LLC
Phone:	270∙929∙1619 Fax:
Web URL:
E-Mail:	sobryan@obryancontracting.com
Address Line 1:	1030 Cedar Street
Address Line 2:
City, State Zip:	Owensboro , KY 42301
Issue Date:	03.15.2022	Expir. Date:	12.31.2024
Permit Status	Current	Disciplinary Actions	No

Estimated Budget As-Bid Budget

Project Cost Categories
Cost Category	Cost
Administrative Expenses:	$11,685
Legal Expenses:
Land, Appraisals, Easements:
Relocation Expense & Payments:
Planning:
Engineering Fees - Design:	$58,401
Engineering Fees - Construction:	$38,934
Engineering Fees - Inspection:	$27,356
Engineering Fees - Other:
Construction:	$1,094,225
Equipment:
Miscellaneous:	$800
Contingencies:	$218,845
Total Project Cost:	$1,450,246

Construction Cost Categories
Cost Category	Cost
WWTP Secondary Portion:	$1,094,225
WWTP Advanced Portion:
Inflow & Infiltration Correction:
Major Sewer Rehabilitation:
Collector Sewers:
Interceptor Sewers, including Pump Stations:
Combined Sewer Overflow Correction:
NPS Urban:
Non-Categorized Cost:
Total Construction Cost:	$1,094,225

Total Sustainability Costs:	$1,094,000

Note:

Sustainability costs are included within other costs
reported in this tab. This breakout, when provided,
is for SRF review purposes.

Project Funding Sources

Total Project Cost:	$1,450,246
Total Committed Funding:	$1,450,246
Funding Gap:	Fully Funded

Funding Source	Loan or Grant ID	Fiscal Year	Amount	Status	Applicable Date
Local			$1,450,246	Committed	03-01-2020
KIA SRF Fund A Loan (CW)	A19-082	2019	$1,450,246	Expired	06-18-2018
KIA SRF Fund A Loan (CW)	A20-051	2020	$1,450,246	Expired	05-07-2019
KIA SRF Fund A Loan (CW)	A21-046	2021	$1,450,246	Expired	05-04-2020
Total Committed			$1,450,246

Funding Source Notes

RWRA paid cash for project.

Estimated Project Schedule

Facility Plan Approval Date:

04.01.2019

Estimated Environmental Review Submittal Date:	10.01.2019
Estimated Bid Date:	01.01.2020
Estimated Construction Start Date:	03.01.2020
Estimated Construction Completion Date:	06.30.2021

The following systems are beneficiaries of this project:

KY0020095

Regional Water Resource Agency - West

Checked box indicates primary system for this project.

Project Ranking by AWMPC:

Regional Ranking(s):
Planning Unit Ranking:
Total Points:

Plans and Specifications:

Plans and specs have been sent to DOW.

Plans and specs have been reviewed by DOW.

Plans and specs have been sent to PSC.

Plans and specs have been reviewed by PSC.

Economic Impacts
Jobs Created:
Jobs Retained:

MHI Basis:

Demographic Impacts (GIS Census Overlay)
Serviceable Demographic	Project Area	Included Systems	Included Utilities
Population:		43,157	79,747
Households:		19,240	34,559
MHI:		$54,505	*$58,819
MHI MOE:		$3,681	$5,086
MOE as Percent:		7%	9%
**NSRL:		1	1

Population and household counts are based on the 2020 Census DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) dataset.

Median Household Income (MHI) Source: American Community Survey 2018-2022 5 Yr Estimates (Table B19013 *(for the primary system operated by the above listed beneficiary utilities).

MHI MOE = Med HH Income Margin of Error.

** NSRL (Non-Standard Rate Levels):
  0 = Greater than or equal to Kentucky MHI (KMHI).
  1 = Between 80% KMHI and KMHI (exclusive).
  2 = Less than or equal to 80% KMHI.
  - KMHI = $60,183
  - 80% KMHI = $48,146

New Customers
New Residential Customers:
New Commercial Customers:
New Institutional Customers:
New Industrial Customers:

New or Improved Service
Service Demographic	Survey Based	Census Overlay*
To Unserved Households:	1
To Underserved Households:
To Total Households:	1
**Cost Per Household:	$1,450,246

*	GIS Census block overlay figures are estimates of population and households potentially served by systems and projects based on a proximity analysis of relevant service lines to census block boundaries published for the 2010 SF1 dataset.
**	Cost per household is based on surveyed household counts, not GIS overlay values.

CW Specific Impacts:

Wastewater Volumes (MGD):

For this project:	35.000
For included system(s):	15.000
Reduced by this project:

Other CW Specific Impacts:

This project provides regionalization and/or consolidation of wastewater treatment systems.

This project will eliminate a package treatment plant that is more than 25 years old.

This project will eliminate a package treatment plant that has received notices of violations within the last two state fiscal years (July through June).

This project includes an on-site mound, and/or decentralized WW treatment system.

This project is necessary to achieve full or partial compliance with a court order, agreed order, or a judicial or administrative consent decree.

Primary system has not received any CWA Notices of Violation within the previous state fiscal year (July through June).

This project is consistent with the approved facility plan.

This project will have a positive impact on drinking water sources within a 5 mile radius.

Planning Needs:

Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Correction.

Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) Correction.

Replacement or Rehabilitation of Aging Infrastructure.

New Treatment Plant.

New Collector Sewers and Appurtenances.

Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems.

Upgrade to Advanced Treatment.

This project addresses PFAS or other emerging contaminants.

Rehab/Upgrade/Expansion of Existing Treatment Plant.

New Interceptor Sewers and Appurtenances.

Stormwater Control.

Non-Point Source (NPS) Pollution Control.

Recycled Water Distribution.

Planning

Other (specify):

Project Inventory (Mapped Features):

There are no mapped features for this project.

Administrative Components:

The following administrative components are included in this project:

Planning

Sewer System Evaluation Survey Report

Design

Construction

Management

Audits on Record
Associated With Applicant

Audit Year	Entity Name	Entity Relationship
2022	Regional Water Resource Agency	Parent
2021	Regional Water Resource Agency	Parent
2020	Regional Water Resource Agency	Parent

Water Treatment Plants Eliminated:

This project includes the elimination of water treatment plant(s).

Sanitary Sewer Components:

This project includes a new wastewater treatment plant.

This project includes an expansion of an existing wastewater treatment plant.

This project includes rehabilitation of an existing wastewater treatment plant.

This project includes upgrades to an existing wastewater treatment plant.

This project includes rehabilitation or replacement of aging infrastructure.

This project includes new collector sewers.

This project includes new interceptor sewers.

This project includes elimination of existing sewer system components.

Security Components:

This project includes cyber-security components.

Green
InfrastructureWater
EfficiencyEnergy
EfficiencyEnvironmentally
InnovativeAsset
Management

Green Infrastructure:

Green stormwater infrastructure includes a wide array of practices at multiple scales that manage wet weather and that maintains and restores natural hydrology by infiltrating, evapotranspiring and harvesting and using stormwater. On a regional scale, green infrastructure is the preservation and restoration of natural landscape features, such as forests, floodplains, and wetlands, coupled with policies such as infill and redevelopment that reduce overall imperviousness in a watershed. On the local scale, green infrastructure consists of site and neighborhood-specific practices, such as:

Component		Cost
Item 1:	Implementation of green streets.
Item 2:	Wet Weather management systems for parking areas.
Item 3:	Implementation of comprehensive urban forestry programs.
Item 4:	Stormwater harvesting and reuse.
Item 5:	Downspout disconnection.
Item 6:	Comprehensive retrofit programs designed to keep wet weather discharges out of sewer systems.
Item 7:	Establishment or restoration of riparian buffers, floodplains, wetlands or other natural features.
Item 8:	Management of wetlands.
Item 9:	Purchase of land or easements on land that has a direct benefit to water quality.
Total Cost:

* Indicates a business case may be required for this item.

If any box(es) above are checked, please describe each below.

Water Efficiency:

The use of improved technologies and practices to deliver equal or better services with less water. Water efficiency encompasses conservation and reuse efforts, as well as water loss reduction and prevention, to protect water resources for the future. Examples include:

Component		Cost
Item 1:	Installing or retrofitting water efficient devices such as plumbing fixtures and appliances (toilets, showerheads, urinals).
Item 2:	Installing any type of water meter in previously unmetered areas (can include backflow prevention if in conjunction with meter replacement).
Item 3:	Replacing existing broken/malfunctioning water meters with AMR or smart meters, meters with leak detection, backflow prevention
Item 4:	Retrofitting/Adding AMR capabilities or leak equipment to existing meters.
Item 5:	Developing water audit and conservation plans, which are reasonably expected to result in a capital project.
Item 6:	Recycling and water reuse projects that replace potable sources with non-potable sources (Gray water, condensate, and wastewater effluent reuse systems, extra treatment or distribution costs associated with water reuse).
Item 7:	Retrofit or replacement of existing landscape irrigation/agricultural systems to more efficient landscape/agricultural irrigation systems (rain and moisture sensing equipment)
Item 8:	Water meter replacement with traditional water meters.*
Item 9:	Projects that result from a water audit or water conservation plan.*
Item 10:	Storage tank replacement/rehabilitation to reduce water loss.*
Item 11:	New water efficient landscape/agricultural irrigation system, where there currently is not one.*
Total Cost:

* Indicates a business case may be required for this item.

If any box(es) above are checked, please describe each below.

Energy Efficiency:

Energy efficiency is the use of improved technologies and practices to reduce the energy consumption of water projects, use energy in a more efficient way, and/or produce/utilize renewable energy. Examples include:

Component		Cost
Item 1:	Renewable energy projects such as wind, solar, geothermal, and micro-hydroelectric, and biogas combined heat and power systems that provide power to a POTW.
Item 2:	POTW-owned renewable energy projects.
Item 3:	Collection system infiltration/inflow (I/I) detection equipment.
Item 4:	POTW energy management planning, including energy assessments, energy audits, optimization studies, and sub-metering of individual processes to determine high energy use areas
Item 5:	Projects that achieve a reduction in energy consumption (pumps, motors).*
Item 6:	Projects that cost effectively eliminate pumps or pumping stations.*
Item 7:	I/I correction projects that save energy from pumping and reduced treatment costs.*
Item 8:	I/I correction where excessive groundwater infiltration is contaminating the influent requiring otherwise unnecessary treatment processes.*
Item 9:	Replacing old motors with premium energy efficiency motors.*
Item 10:	Upgrade of POTW lighting to energy efficient sources.*
Item 11:	SCADA systems where substantial energy savings can be demonstrated.*
Item 12:	Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) controllers where substantial energy savings can be demonstrated.*
Total Cost:

* Indicates a business case may be required for this item.

If any box(es) above are checked, please describe each below.

Environmentally Innovative Projects:

Environmentally innovative projects include those that demonstrate new and/or innovative approaches to delivering services or managing water resources in a more sustainable way. Examples include:

Component		Cost
Item 1:	Total integrated water resources management planning likely to result in a capital project.
Item 2:	Utility sustainability plan consistent with EPA’s sustainability policy.
Item 3:	Greenhouse gas inventory or mitigation plan and submission of a GHG inventory to a registry as long as it is being done for an SRF eligible facility.
Item 4:	Planning activities by a POTW to prepare for adaptation to the long-term effects of climate change and/or extreme weather.
Item 5:	Construction of US Building Council LEED certified buildings, or renovation of an existing building on POTW facilities.
Item 6:	Decentralized wastewater treatment solutions to existing deficient or failing onsite wastewater systems.
Item 7:	Constructed wetlands projects used for municipal wastewater treatment, polishing, and/or effluent disposal.*
Item 8:	Projects that result from total/integrated water resource management planning consistent with the decision criteria for environmentally innovative projects and that are CWSRF eligible.*
Item 9:	Projects that facilitate adaptation of POTWs to climate change identified by a carbon footprint assessment or climate adaption study.*
Item 10:	POTW upgrades or retrofits that remove phosphorus for beneficial use, such as biofuel production with algae.*
Item 11:	Projects that significantly reduce or eliminate the use of chemicals in wastewater treatment.*
Item 12:	Treatment technologies that significantly reduce the volume of residuals, generation of residuals, or lower the amount of chemicals in the residuals.*	$1,094,000
Item 13:	Educational activities and demonstration projects for water or energy efficiency.*
Item 14:	Projects that achieve the goals/objectives of utility asset management plans.*
Item 15:	Sub-surface land application of effluent and other means for groundwater recharge, such as spray irrigation and overland flow.*
Total Cost:		$1,094,000

* Indicates a business case may be required for this item.

If any box(es) above are checked, please describe each below.

the system is intended to be automated and incorporated into the MRP SCADA Control system for maximal energy efficiency gains and will utilize recycled process water from WWTP effluent.

Asset Management:

If a category is selected, the applicant must provide supporting documentation in PDF format to substantiate claims.

Asset Management Components

Last Rate Adjustment Date:	07.01.2023 Download Fee Schedule
Rate Adjustment Age (months):	6

System’s monthly water bill, based on 4,000 gallons, as a percentage of MHI:

1.24%

The system has an Asset Management Plan (AMP).

Note: AMP scoring credit requires at least one of the following components:
	The AMP includes an Asset Inventory.
	The AMP includes a Strategic Plan.
	The AMP includes a Capital Improvement Plan.
Download Supporting Document

The system(s) involved in this project have specifically allocated funds for the rehabilitation and replacement of aging and deteriorating infrastructure.

Download Supporting Document

If any box(es) above are checked, please describe each below.

This project has been on the Agency's 5 Year Capital Improvement Plan as approved by the Board of Directors since FY 2012-2013 and is currently scheduled for completion in FY 18-19.

Activity	Date
Profile Created:	11.20.2017
Profile Last Modified:	11.09.2023
General Info Last Modified:	11.09.2023
Narrative Last Modified:	01.25.2018
Admin Info Last Modified:	03.30.2022
Budget Info Last Modified:	11.20.2017
Impacts Info Last Modified:	03.30.2022
Plans & Specs Info Last Modified:
Components Info Last Modified:	12.05.2017
GIS Last Modified:

This project has no mapped components.