Regional District of Nanaimo is considering G3 Consulting Ltd. for a $226,314 environmental monitoring services contract for the Greater Nanaimo Pollution Control Centre.
District staff selected G3 Consulting out of six proponents during a tendering process and the committee of the whole is recommending the Surrey-based environmental service firm. The money would come from the regional district’s 2017 southern community wastewater budget and the work would be conducted at the end of the centre’s marine outfall at Morningside Park.
“They’ll do water sampling, they’ll do sediment sampling, and they will conduct a review of it, so they’ll have the samples analyzed. They’ll be responsible for hiring a consultant to do analysis on the samples and then to report on those,” said Sean De Pol, regional district wastewater services manager.
De Pol said the G3 Consulting deal will be for “five sampling seasons,” or two and a half years, and a decision will be made at that time whether to continue.
“What happens with that is we submit that to the province and then we’ll get feedback. Do we continue the sampling program or does it give us enough baseline data to give us the information that they’re looking for? We may change the scope of the project and do this every five years or something along those lines,” said De Pol.
The regional district board is expected to vote on the recommendation March 28.
De Pol said some of the firm’s staff and sub-consultants are local.
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