TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port Commission
FROM: Peter D. Lear, CPA, CGMA, City Manager
TITLE: Utilization of Mote Marine Laboratory for sampling, monitoring and analysis for the Myakkahatchee Creek Water Treatment Plant's Hydrobiological Monitoring Program in an estimated annual budgeted amount of $134,914.
Recommended Action
Approve utilization of Mote Marine Laboratory services in accordance with City Procurement Approve utilization of Mote Marine Laboratory for sampling, monitoring and analysis for the Myakkahatchee Creek Water Treatment Plant's Hydrobiological Monitoring Program in an estimated annual budgeted amount of $134,914.
Background Information
The City of North Port's Water Use Permit No. 20 002923.012, as regulated by the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD), requires that the City must maintain a compliant Hydrobiological Monitoring Program (HBMP). This HBMP contains two parts. The first is the continuous monitoring of temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, specific conductivity and pH of samples obtained by permanently fixed equipment in one location in the Myakkahatchee Creek. The other part of the program consists of the monthly analysis of water samples taken twice each month from ten independent sampling stations throughout the Cocoplum Waterway, Myakkahatchee Creek and the Myakka River.
This program was established to report the effects of the City's water withdrawals on the marine ecosystem in the surrounding water bodies. In efforts to save the City money, Utilities staff performs the sampling duties for all ten stations once a month, however the department does not have the capabilities to perform certain portions of the testing and analysis required from eight of those stations on the second sampling. The sampling and testing for those eight stations has been performed by Mote Marine Laboratory.
Mote Marine Laboratory assisted in the development of this program with SWFWMD and has...
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