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August 8, 2000 BOS Agenda notes The following is a selection of agenda items that this board watcher thinks would be of interest to Sonoma County voters. Most concern environmental issues. SPECIAL DISTRICTS CONSENT CALENDAR III. DEVELOPMENT SERVICES SONOMA COUNTY WATER AGENCY 1. Agreement for Engineering Consulting Services - for Review of Development Improvement Plans - 00/01 with Bobby T. Mayes, P.E. ($75,000) and Coastland Civil Engineering, Inc.($100,000) ($175,000 total estimated cost) Staff Report: For drainage review services limited to plans for compliance with Agency's Flood Control Design Criteria and drainage master plans and issuing flood hazard reports to the State's Real Estate Commission. Costs are reimbursable through developer's fees. 2. North Marin Water District Water Conservation Program Authorize Chair to execute Agreement between SCWA and NMWD for funding and management of the Water Conservation Program 00/01 ($311,000) Ratify June 30, 2000 Amendment 1 to the Cooperative Agreement for Funding and Management of the NMWD Water Conservation Program for 99/00 SCWA Staff Report: Both entities share the goal of increased efficiency of water use, cost reduction, avoid or defer capital improvement costs associated with water supply expansion, minimize environmental impacts, meet state and federal regulatory requirements. Amendment No.10 to the Agreement for Water Supply and Construction of the Russian River-Cotati Intertie Project, approved by the Agency's Board of Directors/BOS under Resolution 97-1128 on August 26, 1997, authorizes the Agency to implement and fund water conservation measures that are cost effective and will reduce water demands on the transmission system. On June 30, 2000, WA Chief signed Agreement 1 to the Cooperative Agreement for Funding and Management of the NMWD Water Conservation Program for 99/00 extending the agreement until the 00/01 agreement. Funding is available from the WA's category of "Water Conservation Program" in the Agency's 00/01 budget. A total of $311,000 is requested for 00/01 FY. The District desires the Agency's assistance in managing 6 specific programs within the Program: Program 1 - Direct Mail Newsletter Will educate customers on District's water conservation measures, system constraints, request a voluntary reduction in outside water use. Single-family accounts will show a historical graph of the customer's actual use compared to the District's average single family residence. A similar history will be provided for the multi-family, commercial and government accounts. Additionally, a Fall Direct Mail Newsletter will be sent to remind everyone to conserve water. Program 2 - Existing Residential Customers Water Conservation Program a) Focus on Cash for Grass rebate program; b) Cash for Grass Coupon Book for mulch and other landscape incentives to increase participants; c) $50 rebate for replacing all house toilets with ULF 1.6 gpf toilets; d) a regulation requirement for replacing plumbing fixtures with those conserving water including the toilet upon ownership change; e) fixture coupons for purchase of water-saving sink aerators and shower heads. Program 3 - New Residential Customer Water Conservation Program a) reduced turf in initial home landscapes; b) requirement to install front-loading washers in new developments; c) require all multi-family and townhouse/condo developments and commercial developments have a Certified Irrigation Auditor audit irrigation system on annual basis. Program 4 - Large Turf Audit/Budget Program This program will fund selected participants responsible for large turf irrigation and maintenance to attend Cal Poly Irrigation Auditor and Budgeting training at a local site. All city parks and Novato School District irrigation accounts will be put on a water budget based on square footage of landscape. Program 5 - Drip Irrigation Seminar/Kits Will be offered for all residential customers. Subsidies offered for starter kits purchased at a local hardware store: 20% off at store and 20% rebate from NMWD up to $100. Program 6 - CIMIS Station 63 relocation from Valley Memorial Cemetery to Novato Sanitary District property adjacent to Atherton Avenue on Hwy 37 to improve accuracy of data collection. On File with the Board Clerk: 1) Agreement (4 copies) 2) Amendment No. 1 to the North Marin Water District Water Conservation Program for 1999/2000 SONOMA VALLEY COUNTY SANITATION DISTRICT (3-member board) 3. Sonoma Valley CSD Collection System Replacement - France Street Area No. 1, Resolution accepting work as substantially complete Contractor: J.F. Pacific Liners, Inc. ($625,314) 4. Recycled Water Use Agreement and Filing of a Notice of Exemption from CEQA because agreement involves only a minor trenching and backfilling of land for the pipeline. Agreement with Danny Manzoni. 5. Ordinance Amending Section VII of Ordinance No. 51. The purpose is to provide conservation funding for reduction of biochemical oxygen demand and total suspended solids, in addition to hydraulic inflow, to the Sonoma Valley County Sanitation District Wastewater Treatment Plant (Ready for adoption) Staff Report: Section VII, Item A of Ordinance No. 51 established a Water Conservation Program whereby credits for offsetting inflow to the wastewater treatment plant are available to customers of the District. Relatively few customers have participated. because the Program is cumbersome and participation is limited to customers willing or able to conserve by offsetting hydraulic inflow to the wastewater treatment plant. The District wishes to expand the conservation efforts to customers able to conserve in other manners by providing funding for the reduction of the biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and total suspended solid (TSS) loadings, in addition to hydraulic inflow, to the treatment plant. Approved conservation programs and pretreatment practices will be eligible for funding under the proposed ordinance amending Section VII of Ordinance No. 51. The proposed ordinance would amend Section VII, Item A of Ordinance 51 titled "Connection Fee Charge" and add Item D to Section VII, of 51 titled "Conservation Program." Item A is to be revised and Item D added to reflect the following changes: 1. Rename the Water Conservation Program to "Conservation Program" to reflect that conservation funds will be available for water conservation and additional conservation programs. 2. Replace direct referral to the offset credit program for water conservation with a "Conservation Program" that allows for cost-share funding of District-approved pretreatment and water conservation programs that will reduce BOD, TSS, and/or hydraulic inflow to the treatment plant. 3. Allow for direct funding of approved water conservation programs, including the designing, implementation, monitoring, researching, and staffing of such programs. Sonoma Valley County Sanitation District Conservation Program Description (Portions of this report to follow:) *Serves 34,000 including city of Sonoma, El Verano, Boyes Hot Springs, Fetters Hot Springs, Agua Caliente, Glen Ellen and Temelec. *Governed by a 3-member board of directors: Supervisors Cale, Reilly and Mayor Barnett of Sonoma. Operated by SCWA. *20 million gallons per day of untreated wastewater are delivered to the plant per day. *The plant and disposal facilities operate under a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit RWQCB, SF Bay Region. *From May 1 to Oct 31 effluent is reclaimed and used for irrigation or wetland enhancement. At all other times the treated effluent is discharged to Schell and Hudeman Sloughs, tributaries of San Pablo Bay. *An extended air-activated sludge process is used to treat wastewater at the District's facility. Sludge is thickened and hauled to a landfill. * Average dry weather flow (ADWF) from the treatment plant in '99 was 2.8 mgd. Effluent was reclaimed and used to irrigate pasture and vineyards or used to enhance DFG wetlands. *In winter inflow to the plant is increased and diluted with infiltration from sewer breaks and other infiltration and inflow (I&I) sources averaging 6 million gallons per day with a peak of 35 mgd in '98. *In calculating charges to customers, inflow is measured in terms of equivalent single-family dwelling (ESD) units. 200 gpd is used as ESD flow, 200 milligrams per liter (mg/1) BOD, biochemical oxygen demand, and 200 mg/1 TSS, total suspended solid, as an ESD. *As of Aug '99, district reported 16,040 ESDs, 73% residential, and 27% commercial, institutional and industrial (CII) customers. Major sources of BOD and TSS loadings come from CII customers, esp. those "monitored users," dischargers with average wastewater flow of 10,000 gpd + or those with a mass organic loading greater that 40 pounds per day of BOD. * The Water Conservation Program is limited to funding programs that reduce hydraulic inflow to the treatment plant. The program is designed to expand efforts by funding projects that reduce BOD and TSS and reducing hydraulic inflow. *Cost-share funding will be available for non-residential customers who reduce BOD and TSS loadings and hydraulic flow to the plant. There follows a method for calculating charges. Agreements will be executed. *Systems will monitor conservation programs: water audit and incentive programs, low-flow toilet rebate and replacement programs, water efficient appliance replacement programs. END REPORT [BW Comment: Does this sudden flurry of Amendment 10 and other conservation measures have anything to do with Petaluma City Council concerns and the Water Agency haste to get them to sign Amendment 11 increasing/doubling water availability?] _____________________ |