TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Lars Ewing, Public Services Director
DATE: January 9, 2018
SUBJECT: Approve Agreement with Ceres Environmental Services, Inc. for Redwood Valley Fire Debris Disposal and Reimbursement of Costs at the Eastlake Sanitary Landfill
DISCUSSION
On November 14, 2017, the Board of Supervisors directed staff to enter into an agreement with Environmental and Chemical Corporation (ECC), the contractor awarded an emergency task order by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for the cleanup operations in Lake and Mendocino County, allowing for the use of the Eastlake Landfill as a final disposal location for debris generated from the public fire debris cleanup operations in Mendocino County. The Board directed that the agreement establish the following terms: a cost reimbursement rate of $67.62 per ton, a disposal limit of 75,000 tons of fire debris from Mendocino County, and a specifically prohibited hauling route. The agreement was executed on November 17th and ECC progressed with their cleanup efforts. Once ECC reached their financial task order limit with the USACE, however, the USACE awarded a separate emergency task order to AshBritt, Inc. for the continuation of the public cleanup efforts. On December 19th the Board approved a similar agreement with AshBritt for the disposal of Mendocino County debris at the Eastlake Landfill. On January 2nd, County staff was notified that the USACE had awarded a new Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to a different company, Ceres Environmental Services, Inc. (Ceres), for the completion of the debris removal program.
Ceres contacted the Public Services Department with a desire to use the Eastlake Landfill as a final disposal location for Mendocino County fire debris. Staff shared with Ceres the Lake County Code which limits the use of the Eastlake Landfill to inhabitants of Lake County or a firm or corporation that has an established place of business in the County of Lake, except as may...
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