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Report regarding a resolution approving and authorizing the City Manager to execute a Project Partnership Agreement with the Department of the Army for the Design and Implementation of the Water Quality Control Plant Sea Level Rise Project and approving Budget Amendment Number 25.029 (Audriana Hossfeld, Senior Civil Engineer)
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Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a resolution approving and authorizing the City Manager to execute a Project Partnership Agreement with the Department of the Army for the Design and Implementation of the Water Quality Control Plant Sea Level Rise Project (ss1802) in the amount projected to be $5,652,138 and approving Budget Amendment Number 25.029.
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BACKGROUND/DISCUSSION
The Colma Creek watershed, which flows through the southern part of the City of South San Francisco ("City") into the San Francisco Bay, contains habitat for threatened and endangered species, substantial public infrastructure, and residential neighborhoods that have been severely flooded. The South San Francisco San Bruno Water Quality Control Plant ("WQCP") is a critical infrastructure asset within this watershed that treats wastewater for residents and businesses in South San Francisco, San Bruno, Colma, and Daly City and serves as a shared final effluent pump station for Millbrae, Burlingame, and San Francisco International Airport. The WQCP is vulnerable to flooding as identified in the 2018 San Mateo County Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment (Attachment 1) and by observations during King Tide and rainfall events. The power distribution within the WQCP is an essential, critical, and sensitive component that may lose power even in minor flooding.
On September 26, 2018, the City requested assistance from the United States Army Corps of Engineers ("Army Corps"), part of the United States Department of the Army, under Section 205 of the Flood Control Act of 1948. For the feasibility study, the City confir...
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