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Report regarding a resolution establishing sewer service rates for the fiscal year 2020-2021; amending the Master Fee Schedule to include the fiscal year 2020-2021 Sewer Service Rates; adopting the Report of Annual Sewer Rentals Charges for the fiscal year 2020-2021. (Mike Futrell, City Manager & 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 2020-2021, amending the Master Fee Schedule to include the fiscal year 2020-2021 Sewer Service Rates; adopting the Report of Annual Sewer Rentals Charges for the fiscal year 2020-2021.
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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). This infrastructure serves 16,461 residential and 1,584 commercial connections.
Complex systems thoroughly 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. The discharge requirements for the WQCP are governed by the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board and defined in Order No. R2-2019-0021, National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) No. CA 0038130 adopted on July 10, 2019.
Sewer fees collected from the users fund critical services such as the operation, maintenance, compliance monitoring, and up...
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