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COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT ITEM NUMBER/
FROM: William T. Hetland �fl\k Prepared By: John E. Moss
Utilities Director Wastewater Division Manager
SUBJECT:
Resolution changing the official name of the City's
wastewater treatment plant.
RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt a resolution changing the name of the City's
Wastewater Treatment Facility to City of San Luis Obispo
Water Reclamation Facility.
DISCUSSION:
The City Wastewater Treatment Plant is currently undergoing
a nearly $30 million upgrade to improve the quality of the
treatment plant effluent to meet stringent State and Federal
standards for discharge to San Luis Obispo Creek. As a
result of this upgrade, the effluent water quality will be
suitable for a variety of reclaimed uses.
Given the limited water resources available to the City,
Council approved development of a water reclamation program
intended to distribute and use reclaimed wastewater for non-
potable purposes. The Water Reclamation Program is being
developed to provide water for such uses as landscape, park
and golf course irrigation, maintaining a habitat in lower
San Luis Obispo Creek, and other appropriate non-potable
applications.
With the significant improvement in effluent quality and the
resultant shift in the value of the resource, the wastewater
effluent is no longer viewed as a waste to be disposed of,
-but rather a resource to be utilized to augment the City's
limited potable water supplies. In order to fully recognize
the value and relative importance of the City's improved
facilities and the commitment on the part of the City
Council in protecting and enhancing the environmental
resources in and around the City, Staff is recommending
Council adopt a resolution changing the official name of the
City's Wastewater Treatment Plant to City of San Luis Obispo
Water Reclamation Facility.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no significant fiscal impact as a result of this
Council action.
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RESOLUTION NO. (1992 Series)
WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY NAME CHANGE
WHEREAS, the City is completing improvements to its
wastewater treatment plant in order to comply with stringent
State and Federal Standards for discharge of effluent to San Luis
Obispo Creek, and
WHEREAS, the quality of the wastewater effluent will be
suitable for a variety of reclaimed uses, and
WHEREAS, the City intends to develop and implement a program
for reclamation of the wastewater effluent for irrigation,
industrial and instream uses, and
WHEREAS, in recognition of the importance of the development
of this resource in augmenting the City's potable water supplies
and in recognition of the Council's commitment to protecting and
enhancing the environmental resources of the community, a change
in title of the wastewater facilities to more accurately describe
their function is desired.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the City Council of the City
of San Luis Obispo does hereby declare the official title of the
wastewater treatment -plant be changed to City of San Luis Obispo
Water Reclamation Facility.
Upon motion of , seconded by
and on the following roll call vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
Resolution No. (1992 Series)
the foregoing resolution was adopted this day of ,
1992.
Mayor Ron Dunin
ATTEST:
Pam Voges, City Clerk
APPROVED:
City A inistrative Officer
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Utilities Director
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