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CC - CONSENT ITEM: Adoption of a Resolution Approving the 2025 Update to the Sewer System Management Plan (SSMP).
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Meeting Date: June 23, 2025
Contact Person/Dept: Sean Singletary/PW-EPO
Phone Number: (310) 253-6457
Fiscal Impact: Yes [] No [X] General Fund: Yes [] No [X]
Attachments: [X]
Public Notification: (E-Mail) Meetings and Agendas - City Council (06/19/2025)
Department Approval: Yanni Demitri, Public Works Director (06/02/2025)
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends the City Council adopt a Resolution approving the City's Sewer System Management Plan (SSMP) update pursuant to State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) Statewide Waste Discharge Requirements Order No. 2022-0103-DWQ.
BACKGROUND/DISCUSSION
The City's sewer system consists of 86 miles of sewer mains that the Department of Public Works is responsible for maintaining. The majority of the City's sewage is treated by the City of Los Angeles' Hyperion Treatment Plant, with two parcels being treated by Los Angeles County Sanitation District #5.
On May 2, 2006 the SWRCB adopted the Statewide General Waste Discharge Requirement (WDR) and Monitoring and Reporting Program (MRP) to regulate wastewater collection system management. The WDR applies to all public collection system agencies in California that own or operate collection systems with more than one mile of sewer lines that convey untreated wastewater to a publicly owned treatment facility. One of the requirements of the WDR is that each covered agency prepare, certify, and implement a SSMP. Staff prepared and the City Council adopted the City's SSMP on July 13, 2009 through adoption of Resolution 2009-R055. The monitoring and reporting requirements were updated as part of Order 2013-0058-EXEC.
Major changes to the WDR in the 2022 order include the addition of privately-owned, federally owned, and non-governmental sewer systems to ...
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