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<br />R-07-31 <br /> <br />A RESOLUTION APPROVING A REGIONAL SANITARY SEWER PACKAGE <br />AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A REGIONAL <br />CONSENT ORDER AND MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT TO ASSURE <br />CITY PARTICIPATION AND COOPERATION IN FULFILLING THE <br />OBLIGATIONS CONTAINED THEREIN. <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Hampton Roads Sanitation District ("HRSD") provides sewage <br />treatment service to the cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson, <br />Portsmouth, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, and Williamsburg; the counties of Gloucester, Isle <br />of Wight, and York; the James City Service Authority; and the town of Smithfield. <br />(collectively, the "Localities"); and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the City of Portsmouth and other Localities individually own and <br />operate sanitary sewer collection systems, which collect sewage within their individual <br />jurisdictional boundaries that is delivered to the HRSD system for treatment; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, due to pipe breaks, electrical outages, wet weather events, <br /> <br />insufficient capacity in the collection, interceptor and treatment systems, and other <br /> <br />factors, untreated sewage is, on occasion, discharged from various locations in the HRSD <br /> <br />sewer system and from the Localities' sanitary sewer systems; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, at the behest of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality <br />("VDEQ") and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"), the HRSD and the <br />Localities, working under the aegis of the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission <br />("HRPDC"), have expeditiously developed a comprehensive program to remedy these <br />problems. This program consists of regional and individual elements. The regional <br />element requires the Localities and HRSD to use uniform standards to design the <br />infrastructure improvements needed to manage peak wet weather flows throughout the <br />Hampton Roads Sewer System in a cost-effective manner. The HRSD and Localities are <br />required to address their individual system conditions that cause or contribute to <br />discharges of untreated sewage; and <br />