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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA REQUEST
DATE: December 2, 2014
TO: Honorable Chairman and Members of the Board
FROM: Jason Autrey
SUBJECT: Baker Landfill - 2015 Semiannual Sampling and Reporting
DEPARTMENT: Public Works
BCC DISTRICT:
STATEMENT OF ISSUE: Professional services are required for compliance with Florida
Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) Permit/Certification #0075982-006-SF which
addresses long term care of the Baker Landfill. Professional services are also required to comply
with the FDEP Remedial Action Approval Order dated September 2, 2008.
BACKGROUND: Baker Landfill has two FDEP regulated environmental interests - Long Term
Care (LTC) and Corrective/Remedial Action. LTC is an FDEP permitted activity that requires
monitoring of groundwater from a designated network of sampling locations. The County has
been performing this compliance monitoring since the landfill was closed to land filling activities
in 1998 and was permitted for LTC status in 2003. Since that time, the County has complied
with the permit through sampling of the monitoring network.
The FDEP directed the County to initiate Corrective Actions in 1989 due to the detection of
chemical constituents in the groundwater exceeding FDEP water quality standards. The FDEP
approved the County’s Contamination Assessment Report in 1993 and the County began the
design of a Remedial Action Plan in (RAP) 1994. Several iterations of the RAP were produced
over the next few years and FDEP approved the County’s remediation plans in 2002. The
remedial action system became operational in 2004. Based on operational observations, the
remediation system has been slightly modified since becoming operational. After two years of
operation, the remediation system was shut down in September 2006 to address a compromise of
the liner system in one of the treatment ponds. The remediation system was not reactivated until
August 2008. Due to lack of maintenance and down-time, the remediation system was not
operating fully until May 2009. Current assessments of the operational characteristics of the
system indicate that the system is not performing to design specifications for a variety of reasons.
The most recent RAP Modification was approved by the FDEP in 2011 paving the way for
substantial infrastructure changes completed in 2013 which will ultimately result in substantial
reductions in the cost of restoration activities.
Both Long Term Care Semi-Annual Compliance and Remedial Action Assessment monitoring
are budgeted activities. The activities in this Task Order address services to be performed in
FY2015. In order to meet LTC Permit and Remedial Action requirements, the LTC and RAP
Mod requires professional services to execute two sampling/reporting events at a proposed price
not to exceed $75,600.
OPTIONS: Approve/Disapprove the Preble-Rish Task Order proposal (attached) for sampling
and reporting associated with Baker Landfill not to exceed $75,600. Preble-Rish is a Board
approved Engineering Services provider to the Public Works Department under contract C14-
2081-PW through September 30, 2016.
RECOMMENDATIONS: Approve the Preble-Rish Task Order proposal.
RECOMMENDED BY:
APPROVED BY:
John Hofstad, Interim County Administrator