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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 TT ~~~ , ~ - Linda .Brow , ity erk