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LEADERS IN DRINKING WATER Clean, clear, reliable drinking water is one of the essential components to a healthy and enjoyable community. Increasing customer demands, tougher regulations, vulnerability, maintenance, budget constraints and funding are continuing issues of concern. We can help address each one by providing a broad range of support for your water supply needs. Experience in Design of Water Treatment Facilities From comprehensive planning and treatment evaluations through design and start-up of new water facilities, our specialists customize solutions to your community's water needs. Our water treatment experience includes: • Master planning and feasibility studies • Pilot studies • Computer modeling • Wellhead and source water protection • Water storage • Transmission and distribution • Field investigations and testing • Rate studies • Water treatment • Financial/funding • Pumping stations assistance • SCADA systems Financial Capabilities Financial objectives in the drinking water industry are always changing, which makes successful planning more difficult and more important than ever. Today's water utilities need to consider the financial impacts of: • Escalating costs of operational and infrastructure improvements • Expanding regulatory and environmental forces from government and public interest groups • Public demand for clean and affordable water SEH can help water utilities stay financially viable by developing comprehensive capital improvements plan (CIP), cost of service analyses and cost -based rates structures. Financial management, capital finance planning, and rate setting have become critical tasks that demand tried and true financial skills. SEH water rate experts can help identify a utility's cost of providing utility service. This information allows you to determine equitable rates to be charged for water services, and allow a system to adequately recover costs associated with providing services in a reliable and effective manner. SEH Pilot Filters — Biological Ammonia Removal Funding Assistance Water treatment facilities are highly intensive capital projects, often requiring communities to seek alternative means to finance much of the cost of the construction. Several funding mechanisms may be potentially available to the Sanitary District for financing some or all of the project. SEH's benefit to the District is that we know the funding programs and the staff that reviews the funding proposals. We understand the written and "unwritten" requirements. SEH will not waste the District's time or resources on non- productive opportunities. We have the capability to research many less well-known funding options, to maximize your project funding potential. The SEH water team holds a high regard for the important decisions that federal, state and local funding agencies make every year. We have a proven track record in successful grant writing and administration with Minnesota communities. Because of our specialization in grant writing, we work with all agencies and dozens of grant programs and can identify the most appropriate option for the City to pursue in financing needed public improvements. 17 CENTRALIZED WATER TREATMENT FACILITY PROPOSAL