Number
060376
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
Alderman Hines
Title
Resolution relating to the City of Milwaukee’s Compliance Maintenance Annual Report for the year 2005.
Analysis
This resolution is a requirement per WDNR General Sanitary Permit Number WI-0047341-04-0. The City of Milwaukee is required to adopt a resolution to have its Common Council review and provide comments on the City’s Compliance Maintenance Annual Report (CMAR) on an annual basis.
Body
Whereas, On February 28, 2006 the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) issued to the City of Milwaukee a revised General Permit to Discharge Under the Wisconsin Pollutant Elimination System, Permit number WI-0047341-04-0; a copy of which is attached to this Common Council File Number 060376 and incorporated in this resolution by reference as though set forth in full; and
Whereas, Section 2.7 of said permit requires the City of Milwaukee to adopt a resolution to have its Common Council review and provide responses as required on the City’s Compliance Maintenance Annual Report (CMAR); and
Whereas, All collection systems in the State of Wisconsin are required by their respective General Sanitary Permits to submit their own CMAR electronically (eCMAR) via the World Wide Web, with the City of Milwaukee being the largest collection system in the State; and
Whereas, Said resolution shall be submitted to WDNR as part of CMAR; and
Whereas, The Department of Public Works has completed the eCMAR, a copy of which is attached to this Common Council File Number 060376 and incorporated in this resolution by reference as though set forth in full; and
Whereas, The CMAR report contains two major sections titled: Financial and Collection System and each section is electronically graded based upon data entered; and
Whereas, According to the methodology the WDNR is using to grade the CMAR sections, the City of Milwaukee scored an “A” in the Financial section and “F” in the Collection System section; and
Whereas, The “F” grade was generated based on seven reported Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSO) in 2005 with four SSOs caused by Infiltration and Inflow (I/I), and three SSOs caused by plugged main sanitary sewers (copies of said reports are attached to this Common Council File Number 060376 and incorporated in this resolution by reference as though set forth in full); and
Whereas, The aforementioned four SSOs caused by Infiltration and Inflow (I/I) were related to one rain event on September 25, 2005 and must be counted as four SSOs rather than one SSO according to the provisions of said General Sanitary Permit; and
Whereas, The seven SSO occurrences represent 0.01 occurrence per sewer mile per year; and
Whereas, The WDNR grading system does not take into account any corrective measures the City has undertaken to improve the sanitary sewer system as shown in the attached CMAR; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee is in receipt of said Report and shall provide any responses as required; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of the Department of Public Works is hereby directed and authorized to petition the WDNR to adjust their grading system to take in consideration the City of Milwaukee’s system size and the corrective actions that are regularly performed; and, be it
Further Resolved, After this Common Council File Number 060376 has been adopted by the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that a certified copy be attached to the 2005 Compliance Maintenance Annual Report (CMAR) and submitted to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
Requestor
Department of Public Works
Infrastructure Services Division
Drafter
Environmental Engineering Section
NMJ/kf
July 5, 2006