This agreement provides funding to the town of clarkdale to implement its project for the groundwater well and treatment plan design project as directed in the 2024 consolidated appropriations act

This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202) provides funding to the Town of Clarkdale, Arizona for the Groundwater Well and Treatment Plant Design Project. The project's key activities include environmental compliance tasks, site surveys, well drilling coordination, preliminary and final design plans for a new well, storage tank, and arsenic treatment plant. The anticipated deliverables are 60%, 90%, and 100% design plans, bid documents, and an engineer's cost estimate to enhance the town's drinking water system reliability and safety. The project aims to provide redundancies in Clarkdale's existing infrastructure and ensure reliable, safe drinking water for all residents. Preaward costs back to August 2022 are approved, and the project is expected to be completed by May 2027.

This assistance agreement provides full federal funding in the amount of $1,000,000. Preaward costs are approved back to 08/22/2024. A cost share waiver was signed on 06/10/2024. See terms and conditions.activities:the activities to be performed are: task 1 - nepa compliance: nepa cultural/biological surveys; nepa research; nepa categorical exclusion; class III cultural resources inventory task 2 - survey: topographic survey; boundary survey; lot split; project basemap task 3- well drilling coordination: adwr permitting; well drilling coordination; adeq new source approval task 4 - preliminary design: water system assessment; arsenic treatment evaluation; water design report; electrical; evaluation/report task 5 - design/post design: tank/site plans (includes access road) - 60%, 90%, 100%; arsenic treatment plant plans - 60%, 90%, 100%; panorama booster pump station plans - 60%, 90%, 100%; well plans - 60%, 90%, 100%; water lab plans - 60%, 90%, 100%; engineer's estimate of construction cost; bid documents; bid phase/post design services subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include final permitting, construction bid solicitation, and 60%, 90%, and 100% design plans, bid documents, and specifications. Final plans will include an engineer's estimate of construction cost. 100% design plans, specifications, and bid documents will be submitted to the EPA to demonstrate successful completion of the task. Progress and completion of the other deliverables will be documented in quarterly project reports submitted to EPA, but not submitted as deliverables to EPA. The expected outcomes include 100% design plans to bring online a new well, storage tank, and arsenic treatment plant for the town of clarkdale. This will provide redundancies in clarkdale's existing drinking water system, to ensure the residents of clarkdale have safe and reliable drinking water infrastructure. The intended beneficiaries include all residents in the town of clarkdale. The residents of the town of clarkdale will have interrupted water service and residents' complaints will be reduced.