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Home My WebLink About1974-11-20; Encina Joint Advisory Committee Ad Hoc; MinutesJOINT ADVISORY COMMITTEE v~"" November 20, 1974 Chairman, .Ed Stiles • Vice-chairman, Stanley Mahr Present: Buena: Bill Dominguez Carlsbad: Dave Dunne, Lew Chase, Herb Ketay, Ron Beckman, Diane Edmunds Encinitas: Mark Schneider, Lee Arnold, Jack Kubota Leucadia: Dick Hanson, Caroline Lash San Diego County: Chuck Oldsen San Marcos: Stan Mahr Vista: Paul Pressman, Joseph Zapotocky, Bob Foo, Wayne Elliott Brown & Caldwell: Eric Mische Blade-Tribune: Liz Harris LOWV: Ruth Honnold, Jane Skotnicki 1. Minutes of October 16 Meeting The minutes of the October 16 meeting were approved as submitted. 2. -Operations and Maintenance Reports It was again noted that the status of the "New Careers Program" remains uncertain. The future of this program will have an impact on the operation of the facility. Mr. Zapotocky questioned if the County had considered using personnel from the CETA program (Comp- rehensive Employee Training Act). Mr. Oldsen said he had not heard of that program, but would check into it. The laboratory renovations have been completed and everyone was in- vited to look it over. Atte'ntion was called to Item C in the report under Laboratory, which referred to the fact that much of the digester gas is being wasted at this time. It is possible that, in the future, this gas could be considered an air pollution source. There is a possibility of being given a research grant from the National Science Foundation to analyze this gas, and the operator was requesting an acknowledgement by the agencies that such a grant be requested. A motion to that effect' (Zapotocky-Chase) passed. Burroughs had another violation of their industrial waste permit this past month. A meeting was held this month between Burroughs, Carlsbad and the County to discuss plans for upgrading Burroughs' industrial wastewater system. Singer-Kearfott has indicated they will be taking action to prevent overflow of undesirable wastewaters into the public sewer system. The flow record shown for Carlsbad may be incorrect, as it is less by 400,000 gallons than the month before. A temporary monitoring device has been removed and a new flume is installed, so the monitor- ing equipment has not been calibrated. Leucadia1s flow was up, as o Joint Advisory Committee November 20, 1974 • ' Page Two 2. Operations and Maintenance Reports, cont'd. their new system is now in service. The Encina WPCF is $5,000 beyond its pro-rated budget at this time. Under industrial waste costs, Burroughs is higher than their budget. 3. Review of Existing and Projected Flows Phase II was reported to be over 90% complete, while Phase IIA is 82% complete. The letter from Weardco was discussed, wherein more delays in the delivery of equipment were noted. If the chain is delivered in the near future, they will probably put in one of the sedimentation tanks. 5. Proposed Modification of Industrial Waste Ordinance A proposed ordinance modifying the industrial waste ordinances of the various agencies was introduced and the attorney was requested to make his comments. He had no objection to the recommendations, but cautioned that the County be sure that each agency's ordinance be identical. Motion (Chase-Dominguez) passed accepting proposal for revisions to ordinances and rules, and referring it back to the various agencies for study. 6. Discussion and Direction from Committee re; Oceanside's Letter A meeting is to be held at staff level to determine the particulars of the problem involved. This was related by Mr. Beckman, who also said the meeting would include Al Ruden, Don Todd, and himself. 7. Report by Special Subcommittee on "Independent Management Study" A meeting had been held Nov. 19 at which time three of the firms that submitted proposals were invited to discuss their proposals. It was the opinion of the subcommittee that one firm was more on top of the question than the other two. It is now necessary to tie down an exact cost estimate from the company instead of the range quoted in their proposal. The firm is to narrow down their cost to a more specific figure. After discussion and several different motions of varying wordings, motion was passed (Chase- Dominguez) that the administrator enter into a contract, not to exceed $10,000, with H.B. Maynard and Co. in accordance with the request for proposals put out by the Joint Advisory Committee and in accordance with their response thereto. A second motion (Chase- Schneider) passed that the charges for the study be split 6 ways. A final motion (Dominguez-Chase) passed that the attorney draw up the agreement between the administrator and H.B. Maynard. Joint Advisory Committee ' November 20, 1974 Page Three 8. Report on Phase III Plans This subject was left off the agenda, but introduced at this point by Mr. Oldsen. Several staff meetings have been held, as related by Eric Mische, and a tentative decision has been reached. The Phase A portion of the contract with Brown and Caldwell (relating to the preliminary engineering) has been concluded, and a report was given to those in attendance. (A formal letter report will be submitted to the Joint Advisory Committee to conclude this portion of the contract.) The brief report was discussed and explained by Mr. Mische. He also reported that a meeting between the agencies, CPO and the Coastal Commission had been held to keep those parties informed on the progress of the Phase III plans. Mr. Oldsen informed everyone that he had been looking over the NPDS permit and discovered that it is authorized for flow not to exceed 18MGD, the total arrived at by the agencies in their discussions. A motion (Zapotocky-Arnold) passed to accept the figures as they had been amended.• 9. Proposed Preparation of Current Joint System Map A request was made to update the joint system map, such as the one on the wall in the conference room at the treatment plant. There have been changes in the boundaries of the different agencies, and the updating will be done using the County's new cartographic base. The cost would be $3-400 and %u:-^oiintY-^K-vvT^r^•;./.-; i-f^alFinformal approval; the money would be taken out of JAC consulting. Each agency would get a mylar of the JTd^is.iied,,pradnct;j''-A ^Qtion (Dominguez- Chase) passed to allow the updating of the map, with a limit of funds to a maximum of $400. ( «- 10. Other Business Dick Hanson introduced'•££;-£- Oar\^i^^-^M^i-<tgtsM3.:^fee ^fcesscadia County Water District. Mr. Hanson made two requests having to do with Leucadia County Water District and the new constructions. First, because of possible delays and because their project will be completed in January, he requested that JAC take under consideration that LCWD be allowed to make their conversion and be allowed to discharge into Encina before the finish of Phase IIA. Mr. Oldsen referred this back to the operating staff for their consideration. The second request was a request for authorization to test their facilities on or about December 1. These tests would t:ake place within a 3 week"period, and he anticipated that they would discharge about 250,000 gallons of raw sewage a day into the system. The peak flow could go as high as 3-04MGD for short periods of time. It was requested by Mr. Oldsen that the trea'tment plant supervisor be given advance notice of -the testing. Motion (Chase-Zapotocky) passed that Leucadia be allowed to make such tests approximately December 1. Joint Advisory Committee November 20, 1974 Page Four 11. Set Date for Next Meeting The next meeting was set for December 18, 1974, Respectfully submitted, Diane Edmunds