For City Council Meeting [July 12, 2016]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Michael E. Story, City Administrator
FROM: Robert G. Eisenbeisz, P.E., Public Works Director/City Engineer
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Request City Council to Award a Professional Services Agreement to Lynn Merrill and Associates, Inc., for National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Support Services, for three years at $170,000 each year for a cumulative total in the amount of $510,000.
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BACKGROUND:
The Clean Water Act (CWA) establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters. The CWA was based on laws enacted in 1948 and was then referred to as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. The Act was significantly reorganized and expanded in 1972 and became known as the "Clean Water Act."
The CWA made it unlawful to discharge any pollutant from a point source into navigable waters, unless a permit was obtained. EPA's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program controls discharges. Point sources are discrete conveyances such as pipes or man-made ditches. Individual homes that are connected to a municipal system, use a septic system, or do not have a surface discharge do not need an NPDES permit; however, industrial, municipal and other facilities must obtain permits if their discharges go directly to surface waters.
The "CWA" establishes requirements for the discharge of urban runoff from the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System ("MS4") under the "NPDES" program. The Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board ("RWQCB") issued Permit Order No. R8-2010-0036 ("MS4 Permit") to authorize the discharge of urban runoff from the collective San Bernardino County MS4's within the Region on January 29, 2010. This is the fourth MS4 permit issued to the area-wide San Bernardino County Storm Water Program ("area-wide MS4...
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