2026-10-29 - Sewer Authority
Summary
Built from the posted agenda; no minutes or video. Outcomes are unknown.
- Board meeting at 5:30 p.m.; the agenda was posted 10/27/2026.
- Seven equipment and repair items come with a Finance Committee report for discussion and action, including Cedar Swamp pump removal and re-installation, the FY 2027 SmartCover license renewal, and replacement pumps for the Gorton Lake Pump Station. See Sewer Authority Pump and Equipment Purchases.
- Contract #107 SCADA upgrade, Change Order #2: new remote terminal unit at the Oakland Beach Pump Station (discussion/action).
- Administrative actions: transfers from the sewer fund balance for prior-year encumbrances and from the FY 2026 infrastructure replacement account to the reserve fund; a sewer use abatement for a property on Hewett Street; the 2027 meeting schedule.
- Discussion items include the B&E Consulting five-year rate study for FY27-FY31 (Sewer Authority Five-Year Rate Study), staffing and vacancies, and construction updates (Three Ponds Interceptor, Oakland Beach Pump Station design, Northwest Gorton Pond sewer project).
Agenda
I. Call to order
II. Pledge of Allegiance
III. Approval of minutes of the 2026-09-17 Board meeting (2026-09-17 - Sewer Authority) - discussion/action
IV. Industrial Pretreatment Program: monthly activity report
V. Collection Systems: monthly activities; construction updates (Three Ponds Interceptor under engineer review; Oakland Beach Pump Station in design; Northwest Gorton Pond sewer project design complete; contracts awarded for ejector stations preconstruction and Oakland Beach Force Main rehabilitation)
VI. Operation and Maintenance
- a. Superintendent's monthly facility performance report (flow and discharge, Bioxide, solids removal contractors and the Woonsocket-Narragansett Bay Commission negotiations update, solids handling, SCADA, gravity thickener and odor control rehabilitation, inlet building, levee)
- b. Cedar Swamp Pump Station failed pump #3 removal and re-installation (action)
- c. FY 2027 SmartCover license and warranty renewal (action)
- d. Replacement mini split for solids handling building (action)
- e. Replacement pumps for Gorton Lake Pump Station (action)
- f. Replacement of Center WAS pump (action)
- g. HVAC mini split for SCADA server room (action)
- h. Removal and reinstallation of third pump at Cedar Swamp (action)
- i. SCADA upgrade, Contract #107, Change Order #2, new RTU at Oakland Beach Pump Station (action)
VII. Billing Services: monthly activity report; sewer use abatement for 30 Hewett Street (action)
VIII. Administrative: monthly financial reports; transfer from sewer fund balance for prior-year encumbrances (action); transfer from FY 2026 sewer infrastructure replacement to the reserve fund (action); 2027 meeting schedule; B&E five-year rate study FY27-FY31; staffing and vacancies; future meeting schedule (action)
IX. Consent correspondence: September 2026 financial report; September 2026 notices of violation (review only)
X. New business
XI. Public comment
XII. Adjournment