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File #: 080245    Version: 0
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 6/10/2008 In control: PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
On agenda: Final action: 7/1/2008
Effective date:    
Title: Resolution to inform the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee of the City’s Compliance Maintenance Annual Report for the year 2007.
Sponsors: ALD. HINES JR.
Indexes: AIR QUALITY, PERMITS, REPORTS AND STUDIES, WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
Attachments: 1. Infrastructure Services Division Cover Letter, 2. Fiscal Note, 3. CMAR 2007, 4. Hearing notice list, 5. General Permit to Discharge under the Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

Number

080245

Version

ORIGINAL

Reference

Sponsor

Alderman Hines

Title

Resolution to inform the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee of the City’s Compliance Maintenance Annual Report for the year 2007.

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 080245 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; 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 080245and 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 “A” in the Collection System section; 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, After this Common Council File Number 080245 has been adopted by the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that a certified copy be attached to the 2007 Compliance Maintenance Annual Report (CMAR) and submitted to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources by the Department of Public Works.

 

Requestor

Department of Public Works

Infrastructure Services Division

Drafter

Environmental Engineering Section

NMJ/krs

June 4, 2008