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CITY OFSOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK Mr. Horvath replied, It is somewhat localized to certain areas, and the Midwest is the largest area. We have one-hundred five (105) communities in Indiana alone, but nationwide there are over seven-hundred(700) communities with Long Term Control Plans, so there are quite a few people going through it, but they are mostly in the Midwest, with a couple on the east coast. There are a lot of places in the country that don't have this issue at all because they don't have combined sewers, so their Senators or Congress people don't care about it so much. Mayor Buttigieg stated,This is a hot topic in the U.S. Mayor's Water Council,too. I've found that there are three(3)kinds of mayors. There are California mayors that don't have any water,Florida mayors that are dealing with sea level rise, and Midwest mayors who have CSO problems. They can be a great resource, too,regarding gathering data and engaging Congress. Kieran Fahey,Director of the Long-Term Control Plan with offices on the 13th floor of the County- City Building, stated, The objective of the Long-Term Control Plan, specifically, is to reduce the frequency and impact of combined sewage into the river. (Referring to his presentation available in the City Clerk's Office), he outlined the scenario where the pipes would potentially overflow into the river. He stated, It is a combination of storm water and sewage, and it would flow directly into the river. When the treatment plant was built, we intercepted the sewer line and brought that material to the treatment plant for treatment. Since then, there have been massive improvements in water across the country, but the CSO problem really came to the front in the 1990's with the CSO Policy. The CSO Policy was technically read into the Clean Water Act, so it is technically law. We are trying to come into compliance with the CSO Policy, and in order to do that we have a consent decree(an agreement/court order)and within that there is a Long-Term Control Plan and that is a set of prescribed projects that says we shall do these projects to come into compliance and that's where we're at. He then referred to a graphic of the Long-Term Control Plan on the presentation. He continued, Phase One (I) represents about twenty percent (20%) of the work, Phase Two (II) represents about eighty percent(80%) of the work and the budget. Phase I included improvements at the treatment plant and then some small sewer separation projects. Phase Two (II) is more impactful in a positive and a negative way. You'll notice a lot of names of the parks: Leeper Park and Howard Park, so it is impactful in that we'll be catching that CSO before it goes to the river, but also the impact on the parks especially in relation to the destruction of the infrastructure and temporarily we would have to build facilities on these parks. He went on, Also, there are seven (7) storage tanks, and two (2) tunnels. One (1) is more or less a tunnel and the other is a parallel interceptor which runs parallel to the existing interceptor. The work that has been completed so far, almost$150 million has been spent so far on this work, $114 million on major projects in the fields and the collection system, and then $34 million at the treatment plant as well. This does not include the Smart Streets work that was completed recently. Part of that was doing things that were beneficial like the porous pavers and the sewer upgrades. Referring to the presentation, Mr. Fahey stated, Essentially, the colors are coded so the numbers are actually outfalls, and they would all go into a tank that is the same color as the name, for example you see Randolph and Sampson, everything that is that luminous green belongs together. Leeper Park is the brown one (1), and the storage conduit is the pink line and the parallel interceptor is the line that runs from Brownfield Park up to the treatment plant. We have a lot of infrastructure throughout the City. It is expensive and quite disruptive. The problem with that is EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION INCLUSION ' EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227 W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 TTD 574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 4