HomeMy WebLinkAbout2006-84 - Water Quality StudiesRESOLUTION NO. 2006- 84
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
AUTHORIZING THE CITY TO ENTER INTO CONTRACTS WITH THE
STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD OR THE REGIONAL BOARD
FOR TMDL - RELATED WATER QUALITY STUDIES IN NEWPORT BAY
WHEREAS, Newport Bay is an impaired water body under the Federal Clean
Water act for four categories of pollutants - sediment, nutrients, fecal Coliform, and toxic
pollutants; and
WHEREAS, as an impaired water body, the Bay is subject to the creation and
implementation of daily limits of these pollutants and plans to achieve certain water
quality goals within a time certain; and
WHEREAS, these limits and plans are called Total Maximum Daily Loads
(TMDL); and
WHEREAS, the Toxic Pollutants TMDL was adopted for Newport Bay in 2002
and contains limits on pollutants like pesticides and metals; and
WHEREAS, the metal pollutants of concern include lead, copper, arsenic, zinc,
mercury, nickel, lead, chromium, and tin deposited in the bay's waters by storm drains;
and
WHEREAS, the State Water Resources Control Board, as a part of implementing
the Toxic Pollutants TMDL, has directed and agreed to fund a number of water quality
studies, including one specifically for a Metals Study of Storm Drains (called the "Storm
Drain Study ") to examine inputs of metals and other contaminants of concern to the Bay
via the storm drain system and inside the Bay itself; now, therefore be it
RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Newport Beach, that it hereby
authorizes the City Manager or his designee to execute grant agreements or contracts
with the State Board or its Regional Board to conduct various water quality studies
directed by the Toxic Pollutants TMDL or by other TMDLs; and be it further
RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Newport Beach, that the City
Manager or his designee is authorized to enter into a Metals- related Storm Drain Study
of up to $90,000 (with a contingency increase to $100,000); and be it further
RESOLVED that the City staff is hereby authorized to assist the Board in
preparing and collecting the necessary data, conducting investigations, or entering into
contracts to perform sampling and /or analysis relating to this Study and other studies,
provided that the contracts and investigations comply with the TMDL and the City's
Charter.
ADOPTED this 8w day of August, 2006.
Mayor
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE } as.
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
I, LaVonne M. Harkless, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing
resolution, being Resolution No. 2006 -84 was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by
the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 8th
day of August 2006, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Curry, Selich, Rosansky, Ridgeway, Daigle, Mayor Webb
Noes: None
Absent: Nichols
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
official seal of said City this 9th day of August 2006.
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City Clerk
Newport Beach, California