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Department of Utilities
Reference: Delegation of Wastewater Industrial Pretreatment Program Duties to Metro
To: Mayor Richard N. McLean and Members of City Council
Through: Manuel Esquibel, City Manager
Prepared By: Curtis W. Bauers
Date Prepared: December 22, 2014
PURPOSE
To consider a resolution authorizing the Mayor to execute an intergovernmental agreement with Metro Wastewater Reclamation District ("Metro") delegating industrial pretreatment authority within portions of the City of Brighton wastewater system that are tributary to the future North Treatment Plant.
BACKGROUND
The City of Brighton is a member of Metro and will begin to send wastewater flows to the new North Treatment Plant in 2016. Metro is required by permitting through the EPA to operate an industrial pretreatment program for those wastewater streams tributary to their facilities.
The industrial pretreatment program does monitoring of industrial processes that may contribute hazardous materials to the waste stream which are not directly treatable through standard wastewater processes. These hazardous materials must be treated at the industrial site prior to release into the City's collection system.
Because Metro is required to follow certain rules and regulations regarding the pretreatment processes, they offer these services at no cost to Metro members. Currently all but one Metro member has delegated the pretreatment responsibility and authority to Metro. If Brighton were to decide that it does not want to delegate the authority to Metro, Brighton would need to enhance its pretreatment monitoring program and would likely have to hire additional staff to meet the requirements that Metro would impose. Further, Metro would still duplicate the efforts of Brighton staff, which would result in no savings to Metro either.
CRITERIA BY WHICH COUNCIL MUST CONSIDER THE ITEM
The City must have an industrial pretreatment program. It may delegate that responsibility and ...
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