HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESO 9380Resolution No. 9380
Resolution of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Approving a Revised
Sanitary Sewer Management Plan and Designating Certain Employee
Classifications as Legally Responsible Officials
RECITALS
A. The City of Palo Alto (lithe City") owns and operates a sanitary sewer collection
system serving a population of approximately 66,000 customers in a 26 mile service area. The
City's sanitary sewer collection system consists of pipelines, mains, manholes and one lift
station for the purpose of collecting and transporting sewerage from properties within the City
of Palo Alto service area and connected to the City collection system to the Palo Alto Regional
Wastewater Treatment Plant for proper treatment and disposal.
B. In May 2006 the State Water Resources Control Board (the "State Board")
adopted Statewide Sanitary Sewer System Waste Discharge Regulations ("WDRs") including
Monitoring and Reporting Programs ("M RPs") for all sanitary sewer collection systems greater
than one mile in length and discharging to a publicly owned sewage treatment facility.
C. The State Board's WDRs require that an enrolled sanitary sewer collection
system prepare and implement a Sanitary Sewer Management Plan (SSMP) that provides for
adequate resources for the proper management, operations, maintenance anq capacity
assurance ofthe collection system to reduce or eliminate sanitary sewer overflows.
D. The State Board WDRs further require that each enrolled collection system
report all sanitary sewer overflows to the State reporting system and that all reports be
certified by Legally Responsible Officials under penalty of perjury.
E. The City Council of the City of Palo Alto adopted the City's SSMP in July 2009.
F. The State Water Resources Control Board Executive Officer on July 26,2013
issued Order No. WQ 2013-00S8-EXEC amending the Monitoring and Reporting Program for
Statewide General Waste Discharge Requirements for Sanitary Sewer Systems effective
September 9, 2013, which are applicable to all sanitary sewer collection systems enrolled under
the Waste Discharge Regulations, including the City of Palo Alto.
G. The City has revised its SSMP to meet the requirements ofthe amended MRP.
H. The revised SSMP was presented to the City Council at a regularly scheduled
Council Meeting on November 4, 2013 allowing for public input prior to consideration and
adoption.
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I. The WDRs require the City to maintain continuous coverage by a Legally
Responsible Official (LRO) registered with the State Water Board, for purposes of managing and
certifying the activities of the City's sanitary sewer collection system.
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J. Currently the City has a single employee classification designated as its Legally
Responsible Official, and desires to expand the designation of employee LRO classifications to
assure full coverage of collection system activities.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Council ofthe City of Palo Alto does RESOLVE as follows:
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Palo Alto approves and adopts the
revised City of Palo Alto Sanitary Sewer Management Plan, dated October 2013.
SECTION 2. The Council designates the following City employee classifications as
Legally Responsible Officials for purposes of the State Water Resources Control Board Sanitary
Sewer System Waste Discharge Regulations:
Assistant Director of Utilities Operations
Water Gas Wastewater Operations Manager
Utilities Compliance Manager
Wastewater Collections Supervisor
SECTION 3. The Council finds that the adoption of this resolution does not meet
the definition of a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to
California Public Resources Code Section 21065, thus no environmental assessment is required.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED: November 4,2013
AYES: BERMAN, BURT, HOLMAN, KLEIN, KNISS, PRICE, SCHARFF, SCHMID, SHEPHERD
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTENTIONS:
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APPROVED:
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