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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: L. Eric Schoeny, P.E. Superintendent of Water and Sewer Maintenance
DATE: January 29, 2019
SUBJECT:
Resolution authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to renew an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) with the Fox Metro Water Reclamation District (FMWRD) for work related to the City's combined sewer overflows (CSO).
PURPOSE:
This IGA provides the means for the City and Fox Metro to cooperate in meeting certain requirements of each organization's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit.
BACKGROUND:
The 1994 US EPA CSO Control Policy requires that the City and FMWRD continuously monitor and document the occurrences of overflows from all CSOs within the City. The City owns fourteen CSOs and the FMWRD owns one CSO within Aurora. The outfalls are permitted through the NPDES permit program.
The CSO monitoring consists of maintaining and downloading information from flow monitors that are installed within each overflow structure. Information from each flow monitor is used to prepare reports that must be sent to the IEPA on a monthly basis. Aurora and FMWRD have been sharing the cost of this work since 1996.
DISCUSSION:
The 2019 budget provides $100,000 in the Water and Sewer Fund in account No. 510-4063-511.73-13.
IMPACT STATEMENT:
Renewing this IGA will reduce the cost for Aurora to meet its NPDES obligations.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
I respectfully request that this resolution be adopted.
cc: Buildings, Grounds, and Infrastructure Committee
CITY OF AURORA, ILLINOIS
RESOLUTION NO. _________
DATE OF PASSAGE ________________
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A Resolution authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to renew an Intergovernmental Agreement between the City of Aurora and the Fox Metro Water Reclamation District for work related to the City's combined sewer overflows.
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WHEREAS, the City of Aurora has a population of more than 25,000 persons and is, therefore, a home rule unit under subsection (a) of Section 6 of Article VII ...
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