Enhanced Compliance Action. The proposed ECA allows the Settling Respondent to make capital or operational improvements beyond those required by law and are separate from projects designed to merely bring the Settling Respondent into compliance. The project scope includes expansion of an existing underground wastewater storage tank system from 200,000 gallons to 400,000 gallons. The goal is to reduce wet weather SSOs caused by capacity exceedances at the Settling Respondent’s Portola Pump Station, which historically has been subject to SSOs during heavy rains. The tank system works by gravity and requires no pumps. When the Portola Pump Station becomes overwhelmed, flow backs up and fills the storage tanks. When the flow decreases, the tanks drain by gravity back to the pump station. The Portola Pump Station conveys wastewater from the communities of El Granada, Xxxx Beach, and Montara to the Settling Respondent’s wastewater treatment plant in Half Moon Bay. Infiltration and inflow into the member agencies’ separately owned collection systems can present a capacity problem during wet weather, and in 2012, the Settling Respondent implemented a Wet Weather Flow Management Project, which included five interconnected underground storage tanks to capture excess wastewater flows including infiltration and inflow that exceed the Portola Pump Station’s capacity. The new ECA project will double the storage capacity of these tanks. The total project cost is estimated to be $700,000, including the $300,000 of suspended liability. The complete ECA description, project milestones, budget, and reporting schedule are contained in Attachment E, incorporated by reference herein.
Enhanced Compliance Action. The proposed Enhanced Compliance Action (ECA) allows Cal Water to make capital or operational improvements beyond those required by law and are separate from projects designed to merely bring Cal Water into compliance. The ECA will replace an existing water main section in an environmentally sensitive area well before its programmed replacement year. Specifically, the ECA will replace approximately 1,955 feet of existing cast iron pipe with polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe or polyethylene encased ductile iron pipe along Xxxxxxxx Road and the embankment of Xxxxxxxx Creek, near the confluence of San Mateo Creek and Xxxxxxxx Creek in an unincorporated area of San Mateo County. The ECA will help reduce or avoid impacts to aquatic wildlife and will protect the beneficial uses of Xxxxxxxx and San Mateo Creeks. The complete ECA description, project milestones, budget, and reporting schedule are contained in Attachment B, incorporated herein by this reference.
Enhanced Compliance Action. The proposed ECA allows the Discharger to improve its operational equipment beyond those actions required by law and is separate from projects designed to bring the Discharger into compliance with the 2015 Order and the Clean Water Act.
Enhanced Compliance Action. The proposed ECA allows the District to improve its operational equipment beyond those actions required by law and is separate from projects designed to bring the District into compliance with the Sanitary Sewer Order and the CWA. The ECA goal is the purchase and installation of three sewer monitoring units consisting of manhole lids with continuous dynamic level sensors, early warning systems, detection loggers, and direct link transmitters. The units will be placed in selected sewer line segments where SSOs have occurred, where SSOs are likely to occur, or where the units may identify sources of inflow and infiltration. After installation, the District will use the units as a tool to collect data in various parts of the collection system, and may move the units to different locations within the collection system. Through alarms, data, and notifications from the units, District staff will have the opportunity to respond to sewer line anomalies before or shortly after SSOs occur, which will directly benefit surface water quality by mitigating SSO size and volume, thereby reducing SSO risk and harm.
Enhanced Compliance Action. The ECA described herein allows the Settling Respondent to make capital or operational improvements beyond those required by law and are separate from projects designed to merely bring the Settling Respondent into compliance. The Parties agree that $122,425 of the discretionary administrative civil liability shall be suspended pending completion of the ECA described in this paragraph and Attachment B. The suspended portion shall be referred to as the ECA Amount.
Enhanced Compliance Action. The Parties agree that the improvements to stormwater best management practices (BMPs) at DL-8 consist of capital improvements beyond those required by law and are separate and apart from improvements to merely bring Caltrans back into compliance. The ECA consists of installing new sediment trap, re-grading a portion of old State Route 108 to slope toward the sediment trap, and installing channels with rock slope protection. The Parties agree that these improvements qualify as an ECA and because Caltrans has already spent a total of ONE HUNDRED FORTY EIGHT THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED NINETEEN DOLLARS ($148,719) on these improvements, those costs in EXHIBIT C shall be credited towards the agreed upon liability.
Enhanced Compliance Action. The Parties agree that the Suspended Liability specified in Paragraph 14 will be used to fund an ECA. For purposes of this Order, the amount associated with the ECA shall be treated as a suspended administrative civil liability at the time of ECA completion. The San Diego Water Board is entitled to recover any portion of the Suspended Liability in accordance with this Order. A detailed project description, including a budget, tasks, and deliverables, is attached hereto as Attachment B, and incorporated by this reference.
