HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008-03 Sewer lateral replacement/repair grant programRESOLUTION NO. 2008 - os
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
UKIAH ADOPTING THE SEWER LATERAL
REPLACEMENT/REPAIR GRANT PROGRAM AND THE
GRANT PROGRAM GUIDELINES ATTACHED HERETO
AS EXHIBIT "A" AND ESTABLISHING THE MAXIMUM
GRANT AMOUNT
WHEREAS:
1. The City of Ukiah (City) owns, operates and maintains a wastewater collection system within
its limits; and
2. The City contracts with the Ukiah Valley Sanitation District (District) to operate and maintain
the District's wastewater collection system and to treat the District's wastewater at the City's
wastewater treatment plant; and
3. In 2006 the City issued revenue bonds to finance the upgrade and expansion of the
wastewater treatment plant to serve the City and the District; and
4. In November 2005, the City and the District jointly conducted a rate hearing in accordance
with Cal. Constitution, Article XIII.D.6 through which they revised and raised their monthly
rates for sewer service to, among other things, finance the upgrade portion of the
wastewater treatment plant project and to set aside funds in the sewer system budget to
reduce infiltration and inflow into the combined wastewater collection system serving the
District and the City; and
5. The City is required to operate and maintain its sewer collection system in a manner that will
reasonably eliminate preventable sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) as mandated by the
State Water Resources Control Board with the issuance of Order No. 2006-0003-DWQ; and
6. Infiltration of groundwater and the inflow of surface storm water (I/I) into the sewer collection
system can surcharge the collection system and thereby cause SSOs; and
7. The City has entered into a Consent Decree with Northern California River Watch requiring
the City to implement a Sewer Lateral Testing, Inspection and Repair Program (the
Program) whereby sewer laterals are inspected and tested and, if necessary, repaired or
replaced to reduce infiltration of groundwater; and
8. The City has implemented a Sewer Lateral Testing, Inspection, and Repair Program
meeting the requirements set forth in the Stipulation and Order Modifying Consent Decree
approved by the United States District Court, Northern District of California, on December
19, 2007; and
9. The City and District have received the Kennedy Engineer's Report Amended May 1978
which reported that rehabilitation of public sewers did not result in a substantial reduction of
infiltration unless a program for sewer lateral rehabilitation was implemented in conjunction
with the sewer main rehabilitation program because sewer rehabilitation work increases the
groundwater table in the vicinity of the rehabilitated sewer mains thereby causing increased
infiltration into the sewer laterals; and
10. The City Council has determined that the reduction of I/I into the sewer lateral which extends
from the building served by the sewer lateral to the public sewer main directly contributes to
the reduction of I/I within the public sewer collection system; and
11. The City Council has determined that the successful implementation of the Program will be
substantially aided by using a portion of the funds set aside during the November 2005 rate
hearing to fund a portion of the repair or replacement of sewer laterals as well as the
rehabilitation of sewer mains in order to reduce the financial burden on private property
owners and to increase voluntary compliance with the Program.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, that the Ukiah City Council does adopt the Sewer
Lateral Replacement/Repair Grant Program as the program is described in the guidelines attached
hereto as Exhibit "A" and does establish a "Maximum Grant Amount" of $2,000.00
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of February , 2008, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmember Thomas, McCowen, Rodin
NOES: Baldwin
PRESENT:
ABSTAIN: Crane
~- _, Douglas .Crane, Mayor
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