Number
220015
Version
ORIGINAL
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Resolution authorizing the proper City officers to execute an Intergovernmental Cooperation Agreement with the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District allowing MMSD to conduct necessary Polychlorinated Biphenyls removal in the area located near 4132 North Holton Street, and to have the City contribute to costs to design and implement the remediation, in the 6th Aldermanic District.
Analysis
Resolution authorizing the proper City officers to execute an Intergovernmental Cooperation Agreement (ICA) with the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD), and to authorize the City to contribute to costs to design and implement the remediation, not to exceed $400,000.
Body
Whereas, Wisconsin Statute Section 66.0301 authorizes any municipality to enter into an Intergovernmental Cooperation Agreement (ICA) with another municipality and/or a metropolitan sewerage district for the furnishing of services; and
Whereas, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) is authorized by statute to protect, plan, design, construct, maintain, and operate a sewerage system for the collection, transmission, and disposal of all sewage and drainage of the sewerage service area including, either as an integrated or as a separate feature of the system, the collection, transmission and disposal of storm water and groundwater; and
Whereas, The City is authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a municipal sewerage conveyance system; and
Whereas, MMSD in furtherance of its functions relating to the operation of a sewerage system undertook a cleaning project in sewers located near 4132 North Holton Street; and
Whereas, MMSD discovered Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in City-owned sewers connected to MMSD’s Metropolitan Intercepting Sewers (MIS) near 4132 North Holton Street; and
Whereas, it is necessary to remove the PCB contamination located in both MMSD and the City-owned sewers; and
Whereas, the City and ...
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