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Consider authorizing the General Manager to negotiate an Interim City of Salinas Industrial Wastewater Treatment Facility Effluent Agreement with the City of Salinas and Monterey One Water; and authorize the General Manager to execute the Agreement. (Staff Presenting: Shaunna Murray)
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Monterey County Water Resources Agency Board of Directors:
a. Authorize the General Manager to negotiate an Interim City of Salinas Industrial Wastewater Treatment Facility Effluent Agreement with the City of Salinas and Monterey One Water; and
b. Authorize the General Manager to execute the Agreement.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The City of Salinas (“City”) owns and operates an Industrial Wastewater Collection and Conveyance System (“IWCCS”) that receives and conveys approximately 3,000 acre-feet/year of industrial wastewater (“IWW”) from approximately 25 agricultural processing and related businesses (“Dischargers”) located in the southeast area of the City. The City conveys approved flow allotments of IWW from the Dischargers to the Industrial Wastewater Treatment Facility (“IWTF”) located at South Davis Road, south of the City, and immediately north of the Salinas River. The IWW is subsequently treated by aeration and disposed of by evaporation and percolation in ponds and drying beds.
Monterey One Water (“M1W”) is the sewer treatment provider in northern Monterey County and owns and operates the Regional Treatment Plant (“RTP”). Per a 2020 Right of Entry Agreement, the City granted M1W the ability to divert stormwater from the City’s stormwater system to the City’s IWTF and to pump comingled stormwater and Treated IWW (“IWTF Effluent”), using M1W’s Pond 3 Pump Station (“P3PS”), to the RTP in compliance with M1W’s Storm Water Grant Agreement.
M1W, in partnership with the Monterey County Water Resources Agency (“Agency”), maintains and operates the Monterey County Water Recycling Projects, which include the Salinas Valley Recl...
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