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CITY OF SAN MATEO
Agenda Report
City Hall
330 W. 20th Avenue
San Mateo CA 94403
www.cityofsanmateo.org
Agenda Number: 7 Section Name: {{section.name}} Account Number: 72-4671 File ID: {{item.tracking_number}} TO: City Council
FROM: Alex Khojikian, City Manager
PREPARED BY: Public Works Department
MEETING DATE: March 18, 2024
SUBJECT:
Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade and Expansion Project – Agreement RECOMMENDATION:
Approve a Right-of-Entry Agreement with the City of Hollister, at no cost, allowing the City to enter onto the City of Hollister’s Wastewater Treatment Plant property for the purpose of obtaining sludge to support startup of the City of San Mateo’s new wastewater treatment plant; and authorize the Public Works Director to execute the Agreement in substantially the form presented and to execute any necessary no-cost amendments.
BACKGROUND:
The City is currently under a Regional Water Quality Control Board Cease-and-Desist Order requiring improvements to its sewer collection system and Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) to eliminate sanitary sewer overflows and unauthorized discharges of untreated or partially treated wastewater to San Francisco Bay. The Clean Water Program (CWP) includes several capital improvement projects that are currently under construction and intended to comply with the Cease-and-Desist Order. The WWTP Upgrade and Expansion Project (Project) is the largest of these CWP projects, which will result in a new treatment plant for processing wastewater.
Construction of the WWTP Upgrade and Expansion is nearing completion. Once construction is completed and systems are tested with clean water, the treatment processes need to be “seeded.” Seeding consists of using sewage sludge to provide biological seed material to support growth of the bacteria needed to effectively treat wastewater. The City needs a certain type of sludge to speed up the seeding process that is not produced at the existing WWTP. Staff evaluated options for importing sludge from other WWTPs and determined the City of Hollister provides a cost-effective solution to seed the new WWTP as it can provide the correct type of sludge at the lowest cost to transport. The City of Hollister is agreeable to providing the seed sludge to the City of San Mateo at no-cost pursuant to the terms within the proposed Right-of-Entry Agreement, included as Attachment 1. The WWTP Upgrade and Expansion project’s contractor will be scoped to obtain and transport the seed sludge, as well as seed the new WWTP.
Staff has reviewed the Right-of-Entry Agreement and recommends for Council to approve and authorize the Public Works Director to execute the Agreement.
BUDGET IMPACT:
There are no costs associated with executing this right of entry agreement with the City of Hollister.
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION:
The City prepared a Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Report (Final PEIR) in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (SCH No. 2015032006). Council on June 6, 2016, certified the PEIR. In accordance with CEQA, the Final PEIR serves as the primary environmental compliance document for the implementation of the Clean
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Water Program. The City prepared Addenda to the Final PEIR that was approved on July 16, 2018 (Addendum 1) and April 15, 2019 (Addendum 2). This work is within the scope of the Project evaluated in the PEIR and Addendum.
NOTICE PROVIDED
All meeting noticing requirements were met.
ATTACHMENTS
Att 1 - Agreement
STAFF CONTACT
Thomas Ruark, Senior Project Manager
[email protected]
(650)522-7280
Deryk Daquigan, Acting Deputy Director of Public Works
[email protected]
(650)522-7287
Matt Fabry, Director of Public Works
[email protected]
(650)522-7309