2000 NS Purchasing - Trigon Engineering Consultants Inc for Geotechnical/Environmental Investigation at Fairview Park

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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: January 18, 2000 Action Agenda Item No. 'I-Q SUBJECT: Award of Professional Services Contract for Geotech n ical/E nviron mental Investigation at Fairview Park DEPARTMENT: County Manager/Purchasing PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Professional Services Contract Paul Thames, ext 2303 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To approve the award of a professional services/engineering consulting contract to Trigon Engineering Consultants, Inc., for the geotechnical investigation and a Phase I and preliminary Phase 11 environmental investigation at the Fairview Park Landfill and the adjacent Town of Hillsborough tract BACKGROUND: Orange County currently owns a 40 acre tract, known as Fairview Park, which contains approximately twenty acres of abandoned landfill area once owned and operated by the Town of Hillsborough. Within the last year, some residents of the Fairview Park community constructed a "sand-lot" type baseball field in the northwestern end of the park, in an area thought to have been used for landfill activities. Adjacent to Fairview Park on the east side, the Town of Hillsborough currently owns a 26 acre tract. This tract is and has been primarily undeveloped and unused with the exception of approximately 6 acres which has been used for a yard waste storage, grinding and mulching operation. The Town of Hillsborough and Orange County have agreed in principle to evaluate the joint use of the Town and County properties for development of athletic fields and other associated public purposes. However, much of the land in question has been historically used for landfilling activities and little is known about the structural bearing capacity of the landfilled areas or the presence of environmental contaminants. Accordingly, the Town and the County have agreed that it is desirable and necessary to investigate the geotechnical and environmental characteristics of the property to determine if it is has reasonable utility for recreational development and if it represents a potential threat to public health and the environment. Together the Town and the County have budgeted a total of$30,000 ($ 11,400 from the Town and $18,600 from the County) to cover the cost of a geotechnical investigation and an initial environmental analysis of the property.