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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Los Angeles Gateway Region Integrated Regional Water Management Joint Powers Authority (GWMA) for Administration and Cost Sharing to Prepare and Implement a Coordinated Compliance Monitoring and Reporting Plan (CCMRP) for the Dominguez Channel and Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors Waters Toxic Pollutants Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL), for a five-year term; and
Increase appropriations in the Tidelands Fund (TF) in the Public Works Department (PW) by $151,070. (District 2)
DISCUSSION
On May 5,2011, the California Regional Water Quality Control Board adopted a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for the Dominguez Channel and Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors for metals and toxic pollutants. The City of Long Beach is identified in the TMDL as a responsible party. The TMDL became effective upon approval of the US EPA, which occurred on March 23, 2012, and requires the development and subsequent implementation of a monitoring plan. Subsequently, this TMDL was recently incorporated into the City of Long Beach (City) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit, on March 28, 2014, and is enforceable through the Federal Clean Water Act.
Cities identified in this TMDL are Bellflower, Lakewood, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Paramount, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills, Rolling Hills Estates, Signal Hill, County of Los Angeles Flood Control District, and the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. These agencies drain directly to the greater harbor and are required to develop and implement a monitoring plan that includes: sediment. testing, water column testing and analysis of fish tissues. Representatives of the agencies subject to the greater harbor provisions of this TMDL have been working together in an effort to reduce the cost of working independently. This group is referred to as the Regional Monitoring Coalition (RMC) and has developed the Coordina...
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