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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a Memorandum of Agreement, including subsequent amendments, with the Los Angeles Gateway Region Integrated Regional Water Management Joint Powers Authority, for the installation of monitoring equipment and ongoing monitoring, as required by the Regional Water Quality Control Board, for the Dominguez Channel and Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors' Waters Toxic Pollutants Total Maximum Daily Loads, at an approximate annual cost not to exceed $6,680, for a three-year term. (Districts 1,2)
DISCUSSION
The City of Long Beach (City) is subject to waste discharge requirements for its municipal storm sewer system (MS4) discharge under Order No. R4-2014-0024, National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit No. CAS004003. The 1972 Clean Water Act (CWA) established the NPDES Program to regulate the discharge of pollutants to waters in the United States. The CWA requires water bodies that do not meet water quality standards be placed on an impaired water body list called the Section 303(d) list. For each water body on the list, the State is required to establish a total maximum daily load (TMDL) for each pollutant impairing the water quality standards and are the basis to establish control of the water quality. A portion of the City’s storm water drains to the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers, which are on the Section 303(d) list.
This Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) is for cost-sharing with other agencies tributary to the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers and will provide monitoring coverage not included as part of the 2014 MOA. The following cities have worked together with the Los Angeles Gateway Region Integrated Regional Water Management Joint Powers Authority (GWMA) to develop this MOA to share the cost of the monitoring: Alhambra, Arcadia, Azusa, Baldwin Park, Bell, Bell Gardens, Bellflower, Bradbury, Burbank, Calabasas, Cerritos, Claremont, Commerce, Covina, Cudahy, Diamon...
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