GROUND MAINTENANCE AND WEED CONTROL a) The Contractor shall provide the City with complete grounds keeping and maintenance services. These services shall include, but not be limited to the following: Monitoring a) A Biologist shall visit the site and inspect the pond on a two (2) times per month basis during March through November, and on a one (1) time per month basis during December through February. b) Observations and data collected during the inspections will be used to inform and guide all activities required to fulfill the requirements of this contract as specified in the description of services below. Visual Inspections a) A visual inspection of the pond shall be performed during each visit to the site. The inspections shall include the following: • Water levels • Water clarity or quality • Turbidity • Beneficial Aquatic Vegetation • Nuisance, Invasive, or Exotic Aquatic Vegetation • Algae • Physical components such as above ground pipes, inlet and outlet structures, • trash racks, emergency spillways, and dams • Erosion • Issues with shoreline and bank stabilization measures such as rip rap stone, • bulkheads, retaining walls, etc. • Forebays and inflowing or outflowing swales, ditches, and stream channels • Vegetated buffers • Sedimentation • Nuisance animal activity • Fish habitat • Mosquito breeding conditions and habitat • Trash and debris b) Any issues or deficiencies that are observed during this visual monitoring will be documented by our staff in the field notes of the service order completed at the time the issue was first observed and reported to the Customer in writing as part of that month’s service report. c) Customer shall be notified immediately if there are any deficiencies observed that appear in the judgment of our staff to be posing an immediate risk or otherwise jeopardizing the integrity of the pond(s) structures. d) The scope of these services is limited to what can be reasonably observed at the surface of the water and above the ground around the water that makes up the physical structure of the pond. These routine inspection services are not intended to replace any requirement or need for a more comprehensive engineered inspection, or any other type of inspection that would require expertise or equipment to survey the condition of the physical components of the pond, underground, underwater, or inside any of the associated structures.
