Document Summary

This Task Assignment Notification (WM946-4) is issued under DEP Contract No. WM946 between the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) and URS Corporation (FEID No. 59-2087895), with Karst Environmental Services identified as a subcontractor. The contract is managed by Jeff Wagner at URS Corporation and Richard Hicks at FDEP. The assignment is for the Santa Fe Nutrient Fate and Transport—Initial Reconnaissance project, covering Gilchrist, Alachua, and Columbia Counties, Florida.

The task encompasses field verification of current land use and spring access within a 160 square-mile study area, springhed reconnaissance, meetings with property owners and FDEP cooperators, and development of GIS deliverables including maps, spreadsheets, and signed site access agreements for monitoring well locations. The project requires a two-person crew for one week of field work, with activities including land use surveying (with focus on agricultural operations, dairies, and nitrate sources), identification of 20 proposed monitoring well locations, and post-field reconnaissance meetings to identify data gaps. The fixed-price contract value is $24,715.24, with execution scheduled through August 3, 2012. Deliverables include GIS shapes with reports, spreadsheets detailing proposed well locations with latitude/longitude coordinates, land ownership, surrounding land use, and a cost proposal for subsequent phases involving well site access, drilling, surveying, and water quality sampling.