4636-17 Supporting the City Administration's alternative cost savings approach to its CSO Long Term Control Plan and ecouraging the Federal and State Environmental Regulatory Agencies to adopt this innovative plan

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WHEREAS, to date since 2011, the total sewer overflow volume has been reduced by 70%; and WHEREAS, the City, through the cooperation of the Administration, the Common Council, and certain interested, knowledgeable community members, and based on its exhaustive, data-driven studies in the past few years, has formulated a new and accurate system and program to control its CSO discharges which reduces substantially the estimated cost of meeting the CSO curtailment objective than either the original or current projected costs of the 2011 CSO Plan, and which if adopted and approved by federal and state environmental regulatory agencies, will greatly reduce the cost burden on City utility rate payers, many of whom are financially disadvantaged; and WHEREAS, on May 8, 2017 the City Administration presented to the Common Council and to the public the highlights and general description of its new CSO Plan at the Council's Utilities Committee meeting; and WHEREAS, the South Bend Common Council vigorously supports the City Administration's program presented on May 8, 2017 as a quality, green solution to the CSO issue facing South Bend as a city on the St. Joseph River resulting from the City's cooperative efforts, and it encourages the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, and any other regulatory body to adopt the City's innovative green Plan as a cost efficient, environmentally effective approach, and grant due modification to the pending Consent Decree. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, AS FOLLOWS: Section I. The Common Council hereby states that it vigorously supports the City administration's approach to finding a quality solution to the CSO issue facing South Bend as a city on the St. Joseph River. Section II. The Common Council hereby states that it encourages the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, and any other regulatory body to adopt the City's innovative Plan as a cost efficient, environmentally effective approach and grant due modification to the pending Consent Decree. Section III. This Resolution shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption by the on Council. Tim Sco , President Common Council Oliver Davis, Vice Pres., Common Council i I