10.02 - Engineering Proposal for West Lake St Improve

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December 23, 2009 The Honorable Mayor and City Council City of Pequot Lakes 4368 County Road 11 Pequot Lakes, MN 56472 RE: Engineering Services Proposal West Lake Street Improvements Dear Mayor and Members of the Council: Brainerd I Baxter 7804 Industrial Park Road PO Box 2720 Baxter, MN 56425 -2720 Tel: 218.829.5117 Fax: 218.829.2517 www.wsn.us.com In discussions with Mike Loven, Public Works Supervisor, we understand that the City is considering reconstructing West Lake Street in 2010. At this point, improvements under consideration for the West Lake Street project area include: • Reconstruction of the roadway with provisions for on- street parallel parking in both directions and sidewalk on at least one side • Facilities to handle storm water runoff from the street `-- • Replacement or at least insulation of an older, shallow sanitary sewer line • Replacement or at least insulation of an older, undersized, dead end water distribution line A preliminary investigation of the existing conditions within the project area reveals the following challenges in accomplishing the improvements considered for the area: Other than a parcel that covers roughly 20% of its west end, it appears that no City Right- of-Way exists for West Lake Street. The remainder would seem to be available for use by the City strictly through prescriptive easement. There is no readily apparent and convenient area to store, treat, and infiltrate storm water runoff from the street. There are indications that frequent pedestrian crossing of State TH 371 occur at its intersection with West Lake Street despite a lack of pedestrian crossing facilities in this area. Our understanding is that there may have been past requests by the City of MnDOT for a crossing in this area which have not been acted upon. We feel it will be prudent to address these challenges and find solutions for them prior to undertaking the design and subsequent construction of the project. With this in mind, we propose the following scope of services for the project: engineering I architecture 71 land surveying environmental sen