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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a Memorandum of Understanding, including subsequent amendments, with the Los Angeles Gateway Region Integrated Regional Water Management Joint Powers Authority, for administration and cost-sharing of the Coordinated Compliance Monitoring and Reporting Plan Implementation for the Dominguez Channel and Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors Waters Toxic Pollutants Total Maximum Daily Loads, in an annual cost not to exceed $78,681, for a five-year term. (Districts 1,2)
DISCUSSION
On May 5, 2011, the California Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Board) adopted a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for the Dominguez Channel, Los Angeles Harbor, and Long Beach Harbor (greater harbor) for metals and toxic pollutants. The TMDL identifies the City of Long Beach (City) as one of the responsible parties and requires the development and implementation of a monitoring plan. Subsequently, this TMDL was incorporated into the City’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit, on March 28, 2014, and is enforceable through the Federal Clean Water Act.
Cities and agencies 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 each of the agencies have been working together to reduce the cost of working independently. This group, referred to as the Regional Monitoring Coalition (RMC), developed the Coordinated Compliance, Monitoring, and Reporting Plan (CCMRP), which has been submitted to the Regional Board. This monitoring plan calls for the collection of wet and dry weather ...
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