HomeMy WebLinkAbout2001-10 - Newport Dunes Storm Water DiversionRESOLUTION NO 2001- 10
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
SUPPORTING THE NEWPORT DUNES
STORM WATER DIVERSION
WHEREAS Newport Bay is an impaired water body under Section 303(d) of the federal
Clean Water Act and is therefore subject to Total Maximum Daily Loads for sediment
nutrients fecal coliform and toxics and
WHEREAS the Fecal Coliform TMDL directs the City and its Bay partners to clean up
inputs to the Bay such that the Bay meets REC I (water contact recreational activities like
swimming) standards by 2013 and
WHEREAS a key area of the Bay subject to excessive amounts of fecal cohform ib a
portion of the Newport Dunes swimming lagoon and
WHEREAS the Dunes I al,00n receiveb drainage from a watershed east of the Lagoon
near Jamboree and Back Bav Drive and
WHEREAS diverting dry weather flows from this drainage area into the wastewater
sy stem may lead to water quality improvementb in the Dunes Lagoon and
WHEREAS the Orange County Sanitation District and the California Regional Water
Quality Control Board Santa Ana Region has proposed a Supplemental Environmental
Project (SEP) that would permanently diiert these flows to the wastewater system now
therefore be it
RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Newport Beach that the City supports
this proposal and authorizes the construction of this SEP within City limits ubing OCSD
and County of Orange divcrsion funds and be it also
RESOLVED that the City Council hereby authorizes the City Manager to direct the
construction of this SEP within a timely manner as directed by the Regional Board
ADOPTED this 131h day of February 2001
ATTEST
I aVonne Harklebs
CITY CLERK
Garold Adams
MAYOR
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORA \GE } ss
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 \o 2001 10 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
13th day of February 2001 and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote to
wit
Ayes Heffernan O \eil Ridgeway Glover Bromberg Proctor Mayor Adams
Noes None
Absent None
Abstain None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
official seal of said City tlus 141h day of February 2001
(Seal)
City Clerk
Newport Beach California