BOS - 8-18-2015 Triple Serving Sewer Stuff!

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Consent Agenda - Public Works Items: 

15. Submittal of a resolution authorizing execution of notice of completion and acceptance for the Collection System Pump Stations Contract for the Los Osos Wastewater Project, Los Osos. District 2. 
    

17. Request to approve Amendment No. 4 to the Owner-Engineer Agreement with Carollo Engineers for professional engineering services during construction of the Los Osos Water Recycling Facility, in the amount of $329,303. District 2. 
    

CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - PENDING LITIGATION (Government Code section 54956.9.) It is the intention of the Board to meet in closed session concerning the following items: Existing Litigation (Gov. Code, section 54956.9(a)). (Formally initiated.) (3) ARB, Inc. v. County of San Luis Obispo; .............

When relevant documents are posted, I will add the links here.

Two steps closer to flushing, where the goods will take a little journey out of town and return—TRANSFORMED!....... And on the ARB issue—who knows where that will go!

Update—here are the LINKS:
For Item 15 - http://agenda.slocounty.ca.gov/agenda/sanluisobispo/Proposal.html?select=4996
For Item 17 - http://agenda.slocounty.ca.gov/agenda/sanluisobispo/Proposal.html?select=4976

San Francisco's Sewage

What is a trip to San Francisco without wastewater reporting when you have a sewer blog? I kept hoping for at least a manhole cover to show you as I was walking along the streets downtown. But all I saw without getting run over in traffic was PG & E manhole covers. Most disappointing.

I had better luck on the sewer front as we were driving out of town to go home. On the Great Highway, there are two sewage-related buildings. First I saw a Pump Station—the Westside Pump Station. Here is a shot of it by Ben Niehaus. I was driving, bummer, no shot for me! His has better weather than mine would have had however.

Next, just beyond this, was the Oceanside Treatment Plant! What a bonanza, yet I had to drive right past them both! Bummer!

So I googled them when I got home. Here is a great article by Mark Lukach, “Poop Parade: Behind the Scenes of the Oceanside Treatment Plant.”

http://oceanbeachbulletin.com/2011/07/11/the-poop-parade-behind-the-scenes-of-the-oceanside-treatment-plant/

You might want to get an overview of San Francisco’s entire sewage picture, so I have provided some fun links.

San Francisco Sewer System Master Plan as of 2010:

http://www.sfwater.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=723

Appendix H of said plan (CSD stands for “Combined Sewer Discharge - sewer and storm waters):

http://sfwater.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=664

Appendix I of that plan - S.F. Pump stations:

http://sfwater.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=661

Westside Pump Station map:

http://wikimapia.org/4124921/Westside-Pump-Station

Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant map:

http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=37.747440&lon=-122.499619&z=14&m=b&show=/1771029/Oceanside-Water-Pollution-Control-Plant

But even cooler is this map, that shows both plants, plus a whole lot more:

http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=37.734807&lon=-122.506485&z=19&m=b

Art, apparently at the Westside Pump Station!

http://www.artandarchitecture-sf.com/earth-air-sea.html

Coolest of all are the TOURS!!! Access the information off this link:

http://sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=95

I will try to better coordinate my next trip north.

Pump Station Move

Got a notice from the California Coastal Commission yesterday.

The Coastal Development Permit (CDP) approved June 11, 2010 will need to be amended. The generator building associated with the mid-town pump station was planned to go across the street at the park. However, the parkland is restricted against non-recreational development. This is a National Park Service rule and it matters because there was park service funding for it.

The proposed new location is in the wood-chip ornamental area past the parking lot toward the mid-town property.

Moving the building there shouldn't be a problem as the new location is consistent with the Commissioner's original CDP approval, the certified LCP and the coastal acts access and recreational policies. However this is Los Osos and there were negative comments by two seasoned speakers at today's Board of Supes meeting.