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SUPPLEMENTAL ASSESSMENT; SAN DIEGO REGION WATER RECLAMATION AGENCY
Adopt Resolution No. 7'7!33 approving a Supplemental Assessment of two
thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for FY 84-85 to the San Diego Region Water
Reclamat ion Agency.
ITEM EXPLANATION
The annual membership assessment from the San Diego Region Water Reclamation
Agency is $5,400.00.
August 1, 1984. Membership assessments are used to defray organizational
overhead costs, whereas, other costs and project related expenses are supported by grant payments. The agency is in a temporary short cash flow situation
because: 1)
from the agency and, 2)
be available until the FY 1985 fiscal year (October 1984). The agency has placed
current employees on a part-time basis and taken other cost cutting actions for
the short term. There is concern that valuable skills will be lost permanently
if these employees cannot be retained until project funds are available.
Attached is a letter (Exhibit A) which provides more detailed information. The
Board of Directors has indicated that this supplemental assessment will be
credited towards the FY 85-86 assessment. Should the expected grant funding not
be available in the next fiscal year, agency projects will be terminated and the
agency itself may have to be placed in a custodial status.
FISCAL IMPACT
Funds were not appropriated in the FY 84-85 budget for the expenditure, but, are
available in the Unappropriated Reserve Fund of the water enterprise. The
Board (of Director's intention is to reduce the FY 85-86 assessment by this
supplemental assessment.
This payment was forwarded to the organization on
The county of San Diego (assessment of $20,400) has withdrawn
certain grant funding for the CCBA process will not
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RESOLUTION NO. 7733
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE SAN DIEGO
REGION WATER RECLAMATION AGENCY
WHEREAS, the City of Carlsbad is a charter member of the San Diego
Region Water Reclamation Agency and;
WHEREAS, the San Diego Region Water Reclamation Agency has requested a
supplemental appropriation of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) from each
member agency and,
WHEREAS, funds are available in the Unappropriated Reserve Fund of the
Water Engerprise;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Carlsbad as follows:
1. The supplemental assessment of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for
FY 84-85 is approved.
2. The transfer of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) from the Unappro-
priated Reserve Fund of the Water Enterprise to the Water Administration
Fund (41-63-10-2520).
I PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Carlsbad City
Council held the 4th day of September , 1984, by the following vote,
to wit:
AYES:
NOTES: None
huncil -rs Casler, Lewis, Kulchin, chick and Prescott
ABSENT: None "/ikeY, d &-
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WATER RECLAl\rh,TION AGENCY
10887 Woodside Avenue
Posit Office Box 70
Santee, California 92071
(7141) 448-31 11
July 31, 198.4
To: Management Committee Members of the
San Diego Region Water Reclamation Agency
The Board of Directors of the San Diego Region Water Reclamation
Agency at its meeting on July 27, 1984, unanimously approved an
additional $2,000 assessment for each member of the SDRWRA and agreed to
seek approval from their boards and councils for this additionai
assessment. The reasons for this action are:
1. The County of San Diego did not approve its annual assessment
in the amount of $20,400.
2. The Agency presently has only one small grant on the Wetlands
Project that will terminate on June 30, 1985. The funds remaining in
this grant are approximately $72,000, however, these are reimbursable
funds.
3. The $135,000 for developing the advanced wastewater treatment
capability of the CCBA process was cut out o€ the State Budget by the
Governor. Senator Ellis is trying to get this money back in the State
Budget and seems confident that he can do so, however, even if he is
successful it will be two to six months before cash is available.
4. Congressman Packard has been successful in getting a provision
in HR 3282, the water quality renewal act, that provides three million
dollars to this Agency for wastewater research. We are trying to get
the same provision in the Senate Bill through Senator Pete Wilson's
office. If we can accomplish this, and I think we can, there is a very
good chance that the funds will stay in the final bill. These funds
wi:L1 be available after September 30, 1984, however, it will take at
least another three months before the cash flow starts.
5. Money from all of the annual assessments ($34,650) plus cash on
hand as of this date is approximately $53,000. Monthly operation cost,
including materials and supplies is $14,000+.
6. To reduce costs, two of our trained people have obtained full
time employment elsewhere and as of the middle of July all of the
remaining staff, including the manager, have gone on half time. This
will be a difficult condition to maintain very long.
Management Committee Members
July 31, 1984
Page Two
7. We need additional funds approved by the members of the Agency
to assure continued operations until additional funding is obtained and
the cash is on hand.
Enclosed is a copy of summary sheets submitted to Congressman
Packard and Senator Wilson showing projects completed by this Agency,
proposed projects that extend into June, 1986, and a time schedule along
with costs of each project. These summary sheets were used by
Congressman Packard to support his request for $3 million. If the funds
for these projects are approved, the Federal Government will be
committed to a two year program and the amount of local money needed
next yeor will nqt L.2 3% great,
The Board expressed its intent that, if we are successful in
obtaining these funds, the amount of each member's future assessments
will be reduced by $2,000.
Billing for the additional $2,000 assessment will not be made if
the State funds become available before our existing funds are depleted.
It is requested that the Board of Directors/City Council approve an
additional $2,000 emergency assessment for the SDRWKA. Such emergency
assessment to be paid to the SDRWRA only upon the receipt of a billing
by the SDRWRA.
Sincerely,
&e& ERT V. ELKINS, Manager
San Diego Region
Water Reclamation Agency
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SAN DIEGO REGION WATER RECLAMATION AGENCY
INF OWTION REPORT
March 30, 1984
General
The San Diego Region Water Reclamation Agency (SDRWRA) was established by
a joint powers agreement that became effective July 1, 1977. The agreement
provides for a Board of Direct.ors composed of one elected official from each
member agency and a Nanagement Committee composed of one professional staff
person from each member agency. The Management Committee is advisory to the
Board of Directors.
The goal of the agency is to advance the technology of wastewater
reclanation and to promote its reuse as a supplemental water supply in San
Diego County. To obtain this goal, the Board of Directors has established the
f o 1 1 ow i ng ob j ec t i v e s :
1. To jointly study the methods and technology of water reclamation,
water management and the reuse of wastewater.
2. To establish one or more centers for the conduct of such studies.
3. To experiment, test and apply in an operational setting advanced
techniques for the reclamation and reuse of water.
To develop water reclamation plans and programs that may be adopted
by the members of the agency for use and application within their
respective jurisdictions.
4.
The SDRIJRA will fill a critical gap between laboratory type research and
the application of that research by a community.
Membership -
The following have approved the joint powers agreement:
1. County of San Diego - representing 13 sanitation districts
2. City of Carlsbad
3. City of Poway
4. City of Santee
5. San Diego County Water Authority
6. Seven special districts that provide sewer and/or water service:
Helix Water District
Leucadia County Water District
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Olivenhain Municipal Water District
Otay Municipal Water District
Padre Dam Elunicipal Water District
San llarcos County Water District
Valley Center Municipal Water District
It is expected that the San Diego region will show a unified commitment
to water reclamation through this agency.
Means of Financing
Funds for the administration of the agency are provided from assessments
against each of the members. However, since the accomplishments of the agency
will be of national and worldwide significance, it is expected that grant
funds will be utilized to carry out many of the investigations and studies.
The formula for determining each member's assessment is set each year by
the Board. It has been based on a uniform fixed fee plus an additional amount
based upon the quantity of wastewater treated. The following modest
assessment has been maintained since 1978: The fixed fee is $1,500. The fee
based upon quantity of wastewater treated is $150 per 100,000 gallons per day
treated--or portion thereof. Agencies that do not treat wastewater pay only
the fixed fee. Total assessments for 1983 were $55,250.
Staff
The Board of Directors, at their January 19, 1978 meeting, considered
alternate procedures for obtaining staff. It was unanimously decided that
staff for the agency would be provided by contracts with member agencies and
consult.ants.
The agency has retained a manager and an attorney by contract and has
contrac.ted with engineering firms and special consultants to prepare reports
and proposals and to perform some of the studies requiring specialized
scienti.fic backgrounds. Other help is obtained through personnel services
companies.
Accompl. i s hmen t s
At: its October 2, 1977 meeting, the Board of Directors placed the highest
priorities on the following programs:
treatment processes such as aquaculture systems, (2) conversion of organics
resulting from wastewater treatment to energy or other products and (3) live
stream management techniques.
(1) low energy advanced wastewater
Low Energy Aquaculture Systems
The agency has just completed a project to "Study the Use of Artificial The study Wetlands as a Means of Advanced Biological Wastewater Treatment."
was performed over a four year period at a cost of $594,345.
received grant funds from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the
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amount of $370,000 and grant funds from the State Department of Water
Resources in the amount of $158,000.
the agency. The remaining $66,445 was provided by
Data from the above study shows that Artificial Wetlands can provide an
economic alternative to:
1. Denitrify secondary treated wastewater that is high in nitrates, and at the same time provide good BOD and SS removal.
2. Provide secondary treatment of primary effluent and at the same time
provide a high degree of nitrogen removal.
3. Remove certain heavy metals such as copper, zinc and cadmium.
Results of this study have been published in the following peer reviewed
publications: (1) Water Research, Volume 9, pp. 1009-1014, 1983, entitled
"Nitrogen Removal in Artificial Wetlands"; (2) Journal lJPCF, Volume 56, pp.
152-156, February 1984, entitled "Use of Artificial Wetlands to Remove
Nitrogen from Wastewater .'I
A paper entitled, "Wastewater Treatment by Artificial Wetlands" has been
submitt:ed to the International Association on Water Pollution Research (IAWPR)
for presentation at their 12th Biennial International Conference on Water
Pollution. If accepted the paper will be presented in Amsterdam, September
17-20, 1984 and published in the journal "Water Science and Technology."
A poster presentation on the use of artificial wetlands for the removal
of heavy metals will be made at "Water Reuse Symposium 111," an international
conference, to be held in San Diego, August 27-31, 1984. This symposium is
sponsored by several U.S. federal government agencies including EPA and DI.
The SDR'CJRA is making every effort to get the results of its studies to
the public so that practical use can be made of the studies.
The first municipality to use the results of these studies will probably
be the Valley Center Municipal Water District (VCPIWI)), one of the members of
the SDEWU. The VCMWD proposes to use the artificial wetlands process to
treat up to 500,000 gallons per day of wastewater collected from septic tanks
and conveyed to a central treatment facility by pressure sewer lines.
Live Stream Management Techniques
The agency has completed a "Live Stream Project Work Plan" to demonstrate
the feasibility of maintaining a live stream in semi-arid San Diego County all
year round by supplementing t.he stream with reclaimed wastewater.
covers the San Diego River from Santee to the Pacific Ocean, a distance of
about twenty miles. The plan was prepared for a nodest SUQ of $12,500. The
plan identified the necessary studies and projects required to develop the
live stream. The total cost to implement Phase I of the plan was estimated at
$365,000.
oriented recreation parks and campgrounds right through the heart of
metropolitan San Di ego.
will be tremendous.
The plan
Implementation of Phase I will open the door for developing water
The social values derived from such as accomplishment
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Tlie State Water Resources Control Board on two occasions have attempted
to obtain funds for this project.
is hard to obtain.
Reclamation facility with the proven capability of producing unrestricted
recreational quality water at an economical price should provide the * to
implement the Live Stream project.
During wet years funding for such a concept
The construction of a 3 mgd CCBA plant at the Santee Water
Conversion of Organics to Products
Flor the past four years, the agency has been working on a new, innovative
wastewater treatment process conceived by Dr. George Harrison, a scientist
with the 311 Company. The process is called CCBA (pronounced see-%a).
Laboratory-scale tests looked so promising that the agency constructed a pilot
plant to test the process, using 1500 gallon batches. Test results from the
pilot plant encouraged the agency to develop the process further and to
prepare a proposal to construct a 100,000 gallon per day continuous flow
plant. Funding in the amount. of $515,000 was approved by the State
Legislature, and made available through the Environmental License Plate Fund.
The plant has been fully operative since June 1983. The data obtained from
operating the plant shows that the CCBA process is capable of converting raw
municipal sewage to a usable water with a quality in excess of that required
for secondary discharge. It takes only one to one and a half hours from the
time the raw sewage enters the plant for it to emerge as clean water useable
for any of the purposes permitted for secondary effluent.
The data confirm that the sludge, generated by the water treatment
process, can be converted into a high quality lightweight aggregate.
Lightweight concrete using the lightweight aggregate has been made and tested
for strength. Strengths as high as 5000 lbs. per square inch have been
achieved.
that the construction industry is interested in the lightweight aggregate and
that there is a market for it.
Letters from the construction industry have been received showing
The process lends itself to a very compact economical plant. It is
estimated that the capital improvements of a CCBA plant will be about $1.00
per gallon of treatment capacity. Approximately half of this capital cost is
for sludge handling and aggregate production. It is conservatively estimated
that the capital cost of the sludge handling and aggregate production portion
of the plant and all of the associated operation and maintenance cost will be
offset. by the sell of the lightweight aggregate.
Study Center
Xn the process of developing the Wetlands and CCBA projects a wastewater
The lab has been approved treatment laboratory was constructed and equipped.
by EPA and provides the capability of doing most wastewater quality control
analyses. Tests requiring a gas chromatograph are among the few that cannot
be performed. This lab forms the hub of the vastewater research and
demonstration study center.
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Future Projects
A,. Artificial Wetlands
The literature on the use of natural systems to purify municipal
wastewaters and industrial wastewaters indicates, and in some cases documents,
the capacity of these systems to remove bacteria, viruses, heavy metals and
many other toxics. A review of this literature lead us to believe that the
artificial wetlands have the capability of advanced nunicipal wastewater
treatment and removing heavy metals from industrial wastewater. During the
past year sufficient preliminary studies were performed to identify the
research needed to develop and verify the advanced wastewater and and
indust.ria1 wastewater treatment capacity of Artificial Wetlands. The
following proposals have been prepared for accomplishing this research.
are seeking funds at both the State and Federal levels to perform the studies
identified in the proposals.
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1. "Artificial Wetlands: Integrated Low-Cost Pretreatment Systems
for the Removal of Bacteria and Viruses."
2. "Artificial Wetlands: Integrated Treatment Systems for the
Removal of Heavy Metals from Municipal and Industrial
Wastewaters . 'I
H. CCBA Process
:In his original work, Dr. Harrison designed the CCBA process as a two
stage process. The first stage as pretreatment for the second stage which
would provide unrestricted recreation quality water. During the pilot work,
Dr. Wilson (a consultant for the agency and ap, expert on flocculation and
precipitation of suspended solids (SS) from wastewater) improved the first
stage to the point that secondary quality water could be obtained in the first
stage.
During the operation of the first stage CCBA plant, laboratory tests are
being run on filtered effluent from the plant. The results of these tests
indicate that the first stage CCBA plant with filtration added can provide
pretreatment for unrestricted recreational quality water.
Dr. Harrison, from his original work, believes that the CCBA process will
remove many heavy metals and toxics from wastewater. To verify these
findings, a proposal has been submitted to the State Legislature for using the
existing CCBA plant to develop (1) its advanced wastewater treatment
capabilities and (2) its capability for removing heavy metals and toxics from
wastewater.
It has been proposed to the Nayor of the City of San Diego and State and
Federal officials that the existing CCBA demonstration plant be used to study
the capability of the CCBA process for treating sewage from Tijuana. This could
be done by transporting sewage in tanker trucks to the CCBA plant site. Since
the Tijuana sewage is polluted with industrial waste, this study could be part
of the overall heavy metal and toxic study.
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A proposal is being prepared, to submit to EPA's hazardous waste group,
to study the process of mixing sludges from industrial waste treatment plants
with the sludge from the CCBA process and additional clay, which when fired in
a kiln to nake lightweight aggregate will provide a safe environmentally sound
way to treat hazardous waste.
It is being proposed to the U.S. Congress that special legislation be
enacted to provide funds to mock up from the 100,000 gallon per day
demonstration plant to a three million gallon per day municipal treatment
plant using the advanced wastewater treatment CCBA process. It is proposed to
convert one of the primary clarifiers at the Santee Water Pollution Control
Faci:Lity into a CCBA clarifier by adding the CCBA water treatment facilities
in front of the clarifier and the sludge handling and aggregate production
facilities after the clarifier. Such a project will provide the plant design
and operating data to allow the CCBA process to be used for large
municipalities (loo+ mgd plants) and prove the versatility of economically
converting existing primary-secondary treatment facilities to CCBA plants with
increased capacity.
C. Live Stream
With the development of the advanced wastewater treatment CCBA plant at
the Santee Water Pollution Control Facility capable of supplying 3 mgd of
unrestricted recreational quality water the live stream concept should be
reactivated. With a proven economical source of water many of the obstacles
to the live stream will have been overcome.
D. Other Processes
The Agency has proven its capability of filling the critical gap between
laboratory type research and the application of that research by the public.
As knowledge of this capability spreads, the services of this agency will be
nore in demand. Presently, there are two processes on file, submitted by
private industry, that are worthy of evaluation. These processes will be
studled as existing programs are completed and/or as the capacity of the
agency is increased.
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