how much lbe they are putting on that particular cso. >> cso is? >> contract service order. each time we ask them to work, we ask them to issue a contract service order. and that's the process. i am looking at that, and if i am not around, simbar is around and will review those as well. >> and cmd and rh are? >> contract monitoring division, which is kind of what the human rights commission, the enforcement portion of the human rights commission for a lack of better word was spun off into the contract monitoring division. >> i think that's great. but i think what i am trying get at, i think we do a great job of monitoring and hoping to make sure they meet and exceed the goals. but sometimes they don't. i want to be sure that we are not continually giving firms the opportunity that are not meeting their goals. i don't know if there is something to do in this process. >> it's something that we can look at. >> also add, when the respondents coming in with their proposals. they will have a team of identified lbe consultants. and they will see that they are responsive to the 22%

narrator: in 1994, the government adopted a combined sewer overflow policy to reduce csos nationwide. cities with combined sewer overflows now face an enforcement action called a consent decree. under a consent decree, a city must reduce pollution levels significantly within a strict time frame or face heavy fines. in 1960, the combined sewer overflows were a perfectly legitimate way of dealing with sewers. woman: the mind set was that, what did it matter if we were sending our waste downstream? water was a good conveyance for pollution. man: sewer systems are installed to reduce public health problems. now what you're doing is transferring the problem, you're transferring it to downstream cities. in addition, cities and towns above pittsburgh were doing the same thing. and then they were affecting the water intakes of pittsburgh. 90% of this region gets its drinking water from those same rivers that we have overflows occurring. hecht: we have sewage overflow with as little as 1/10" inch of rain. and our average storm here is a 1/4" storm. lichte: over a year's period, 16 billion gall

untreated raw sewage, is diverted straight into local waterways, creating a combined sewer overflow, or cso. there are over 700 communities in the united states with combined sewer systems. the other approach was to separate wastewater from stormwater, using two pipe networks. this separate system simply carries the stormwater away from the city. but even separate systems pollute the watershed. in developed areas, concrete and other impervious services prevent water from naturally soaking into the land. as the rainwater moves over the roads and concrete expanse, it captures trash and invisible chemicals, sending them straight to the nearest waterway -- untreated. when engineers first designed america's water infrastructure -- the drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater systems -- they were some of the most advanced in the world. but the infrastructure is growing old. and population growth and development, particularly in urban areas, have made it difficult for original system designs to meet modern health standards and reliably satisfy demand. man: our water and wastewater systems really

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participation by local businesses enterprises and port contracts, as needed contracting in the use of cso or contract service order and our local hiring compliance effort. during the reporting period executive director authorized the approval of one professional service contract with the leadership for management coaching services. the amount of $10,000. during the same period of time we issued 2 contract service orders for existing as needed contracts. one with kaiser for pier 70 negotiation report for the $90,000 and baseline consulting for storm water monitoring services, a little over $50,000. local business enterprise contracting participation. so this is really for the first half of the fiscal year. during the first half of the fiscal year, this is starting back in july we awarded 5 contract with the cumulative of not to exceed $687,000. to date they have achieved lde goal of 50 percent. out of those contracts, 2 had participation and others were exempt from that $250,000 of contract work as part of this project. to put you in comparison, the best citywide average i can come up came

and the funds will only be em m emcumbered when we issue a cso. such process will follow standard city's policy and procedures. come included an initial screening of the proposals. we initiate the rfq and they submit their proposals. and an initial screening to check if they meet the minimum qualificatio qualifications. if they do not, they are out. and next a panel will be empanelled to meet the proposals. they will score those, and they need 70 to advance to the next oral interviews. in the case of the oral interviews we will take the top six of those. if we have more than six that score 70, we will only take the top six to oral interviews. the same panel will conduct the oral in

to reduce the csos into the watershed. hecht: when i first started talking with people about stream restoration, i kind of imagined people out with shovels and small-scale. this is a massive $7.7 million project. schombert: nine mile run watershed is the most significant urban watershed restoration ever done in the united states. narrator: small-scale projects like nine mile run have far-reaching environmental impact. but they're just one part of the regional wet weather control plan. schombert: this region needs to solve its problem by 2026. that's not that long away. this is the largest public works project ever undertaken in this region. lichte: you're looking at significant infrastructure. either tunnels or storage tanks, or, you know, treatment facilities. the cost is about $3 billion. lichte: if you look at some of the other cities that have gone through this, their rates have gone up significantly. the federal government provides a number of grant programs but the bottom line is, you know, it's not enough. there's a

marks the cso in the anyone has a question. >> the farmers were probably mostly moralists and what about the bosses like loss tweed and pendergast and michael curley and honey fitz? didn't they serve a useful social purpose for the emigrantd entertainment and so forth? >> as immigration spike to fill the cities with emigrants from a friday places in one of the ways the communities got access to political power to a voice in the governance and the place where they lived was by dominating the politics of the cities and yes it was a symbiotic relationship. the political machine rewarded ordinary people with jobs and the ability to complain if something wasn't right. and with access to some of the money flowing in from various sources. people who oppose that tended to come from the native-born protestant and the elite and they absolutely dislike the idea that immigrants and often catholic citizens would have that much power in a city so one of the discussions that have swirled around this tweed ring in particular but around all of that is to what extent do you want to see see the reformers a