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Report regarding a resolution establishing sewer service rates for fiscal year 2023-2024 amending the Master Fee Schedule to include the fiscal year 2023-2024 Sewer Service rates; adopting the Report of Annual Sewer Rentals Charges for the fiscal year 2023-2024. (Sharon Ranals, City Manager, Karen Chang, Director of Finance, and Brian Schumacker, Plant Superintendent).
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RECOMMENDATION
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Staff recommends that the City Council conduct a public hearing and adopt a Resolution establishing sewer service rates for the fiscal year 2023-2024, amending the Master Fee Schedule to include the fiscal year 2023-2024 Sewer Service rates; adopting the Report of Annual Sewer Rentals Charges for the fiscal year 2023-2024.
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BACKGROUND/DISCUSSION
The South San Francisco-San Bruno Water Quality Control Plant went into service in 1952 to meet the community's growing need to protect public health and safeguard San Francisco Bay. The sewage collection and treatment system operates 24 hours per day, seven days per week, and can process up to 62 million gallons per day (MGD) of wastewater. The collection system conveys wastewater through a network of over 165 miles of underground sewer lines and thirteen sanitary sewage pump stations in South San Francisco to the Water Quality Control Plant (WQCP).
On July 10, 2019, regulators readopted the discharge requirements for the WQCP governed by the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board as defined in Order No. R2-2019-0021, National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) No. CA 0038130. Complex systems treat wastewater at the WQCP. Local, state, and federal regulators heavily regulate the treatment processes. These regulations help to protect the health and safety of humans, animals, plants, and the environment. Sewer fees collected from the users fund critical services such as the operation, maintenance, compliance monitoring, and upgrade of the sewer collection system and treatment p...
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