City Council
MEETING DATE: 1/24/2018
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Contract with CASC Engineering and Consulting, Inc. for Support Services Related to the Annual NPDES Inspections.
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FROM:
John A. Corella, P.E. - City Engineer
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff is requesting that the City Council authorize the City Manager to enter a contract for a not to exceed amount of $20,000 with CASC Engineering and Consulting, Inc. (CASC) for support services to assist in completing annual NPDES (National Pollution Discharge Elimination System) inspections as required in our MS4 Permit with the California Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Board).
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BACKGROUND:
Under the current (2013) MS4 Permit (municipal separate stormwater and sewer system) with the Regional Board, the City is required to complete annual Compliance/Assistance Program (CAP) inspections and provide annual reporting. The reporting is submitted to the Regional Board annually every March.
The CAP is an inspection and reporting program under the Commercial and Industrial Facilities Program section of the Permit that allows each City (County) to complete surveys of such facilities to make sure these facilities are in compliance with the Permittee's Storm Water Ordinance. These inspections also provide commercial and industrial businesses with education on Best Management Practices (BMP's) and 'housekeeping' for compliance with the City's current Permit.
These inspections were originally paid for through our annual payment to the Regional Board, who in turn, contracted with the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health (County) to administer the CAP on behalf of the Permittees (Cities).
In 2015, the County was no longer able to administer the CAP for the Permittees and the CAP responsibilities were then placed on the individual Permittees to perform. Each Permittee was, and is now, required, under the MS4 Permit, to submit the number of total inspections conducted each ye...
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