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Recommendation to find that excavations are immediately required for the general health, safety, and welfare of the City and cannot be delayed; that alternatives to excavating, such as alternative routing, or construction methods, such as boring or excavation of the parkway, are not possible; approve a discretionary permit to excavate areas in certain City streets, which have been reconstructed within the previous
60 months, all in accordance with Section 14.08.060 of the Long Beach Municipal Code. (Districts 8,9)
DISCUSSION
Kinder Morgan Liquids Terminals, LLC, (KM) has filed for an excavation permit to perform a Close Interval Survey (CIS) for one of their pipelines located in the streets of Long Beach. A CIS is a procedure that KM uses to monitor corrosion in a pipeline. This is done by drilling a 3/4-inch hole through the street pavement every 20 feet over the buried pipeline, and then inserting a probe to read and record the pipeline's electrical potential.
Afterwards the holes are patched with a crack filler.
KM wants to drill the holes in the following three sections of streets that are under an excavation moratorium: South Street, between Linden Avenue and Lime Avenue; South Street at Locust Avenue; and Cherry Avenue, between Harding Street and the north City boundary. The two sections of South Street were reconstructed in 2007 and are under a moratorium until February 2012. One section of Cherry Avenue was reconstructed in 2008 and is under a moratorium until October 2013. See the attached vicinity map.
Long Beach Municipal Code Section 14.08.060, Public Works permit-issuance requires that a permit for an excavation in a City street that has undergone reconstruction within the previous 60 months and is not for an emergency repair or for a new utility service connection, be deemed discretionary and subject to the approval of the City Council.
Section 14.08.060 further states that the City Council may authorize a discretionary permit if:
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