Y--Picayune Strand Restoration Project, Miller Pumping Station, Collier County, Florida

The Miller Pumping Station is part of the Picayune Strand Restoration Project (PSRP). The Picayune Strand Restoration Project will restore more than 55,000 acres of land located in southwestern Collier County, Florida to a healthy and functional wetland system. The plan for the Project is to remove the infrastructure of a subdivision and restore its pre-drainage hydrology and ecology, generating positive effects on the hydrology, vegetation, and wildlife of the project area and surrounding public lands. In addition, the existing road network within PSRP will be taken down to grade with a limited portion of the roads remaining above grade. The work for the Miller Pumping Station includes the construction of a pumping station, tie-back levees, spreader cells, and canal plugs to slow water flowing through existing canals and distribute it across the landscape. The Miller Pumping Station will have six 235-cfs engine-driven pumps and two 75-cfs electric motor-driven pumps. a. Base work includes construction of the 1,250-cfs Miller Pump Station, tie-back levee, spreader berm, and weirs, backfilling of an existing drainage canal, and excavation of a new drainage canal. The construction of the Miller Pump Station and related site features shall include, but not be limited to, dewatering, excavation, station substructure, backfill, clearing, grubbing, placing riprap, seeding, sodding, access bridges, fuel storage areas with containment and associated equipment, sanitary sewer system, fully enclosed buildings for the equipment, approach and discharge canals, access roads, retaining walls, trash racks and rakes, and related civil works. Mechanical work will include, but not be limited to, two 75-cfs electric motor driven pumps and six 235-cfs diesel engine driven pumps (one of each type are redundant), traveling trash rakes, bridge crane, diesel and LP generators, HVAC equipment, cooling water pumps, well pumps, dewatering pumps, water treatment equipment, lubricating water equipment, and other miscellaneous mechanical equipment. Electrical and Instrumentation work will include, but not be limited to, station power distribution systems, station switchgear, motor control centers, programmable logic controllers to control and monitor all ancillary mechanical equipment, grounding and lightning protection systems, lighting, control room workstations, uninterrupted power service equipment, remote terminal units, 80-foot radio antenna tower, and microwave communication links. b. Option A work includes a plug at the spreader berm, standard canal plugs in Miller Canal and along the Faka Union Canal, demolition of the existing bridges on 128th Ave SE/Lynch Blvd and 100th Ave SE/Stewart Blvd, demolition of the existing Miller-1 and Miller-2 Weirs, and incidental related work. c. Option B work includes removing existing tram roads, along with clearing, disposal, burning, and incidental related work. d. Option C work includes degrading roads, backfilling swales, clearing, grubbing, and incidental related work. e. Option D work includes extension of the operational, testing, and monitoring period (OTMP), for a period up to, but not exceeding, six months. f. Option E work includes restoring I-75 access road to pre-project conditions. Option includes demolition of asphalt, relocating fencing, repaving, seeding, and incidental related work. The Miller Pump Station Project is located within the land owned by the State of Florida Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund and controlled by the Florida Forest Service. The Picayune Strand Restoration Project is located south of I-75, west of Prairie Canal/Basil Road, north of Tamiami Trail, and east of Belle Meade. The Miller Pump Station shall be constructed adjacent to the Miller Canal near 64th Avenue SE. Other earthwork shall be performed west of Miller Canal. The period of performance for the entire project is 1163 calendar days after issuance of the Notice to Proceed.