TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Talyn Mirzakhanian, City Manager
FROM:
Ted Semaan, Interim Public Works Director
Jeff Page, Utilities Manager
SUBJECT:Title
Consideration of Formal Approval of the 2025 Sewer System Management Plan (SSMP) Update as Required by the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) Order No. 2022-0103-DWQ (No Budget Impact) (Interim Public Works Director Semaan).
APPROVE
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RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council formally approve the 2025 Sewer System Management Plan (SSMP) Update as required by the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) Order No. 2022-0103-DWQ.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Projects identified in the SSMP will be incorporated into future Capital Improvement Program and operational budgets. The SSMP will also be used as a basis for the upcoming Sewer Rate Study. There are no immediate fiscal implications at this time.
BACKGROUND:
The City operates and maintains a sewer system that serves the community through a comprehensive collection network comprised of 81.6 miles of pipe, 2,086 manholes and cleanouts, eight pump stations, and 5,114 feet of associated force mains.
On May 2, 2006, the SWRCB adopted Statewide General Waste Discharge Requirements (WDR), which requires a Monitoring and Reporting Program for sanitary sewer systems by the issuance of Order No. 2006-0003-DWQ. The regulations in the Order were in response to growing public concern about the water quality impacts of Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSO), particularly those that cause beach closures, adverse effects to other bodies of water, or pose serious health and safety or nuisance problems. The SSMP was then prepared and approved by City Council in October 2007 and submitted to the SWRCB. Subsequent SSMP updates were developed and approved in 2010, 2017, and 2022.
On December 6, 2022, the SWRCB adopted the WDR to regulate wastewater collection system m...
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