Notice of Public Hearing - Wastewater Preliminary Engineering Report (PER) for CSO Funding

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City of South Bend, Indiana CSO 045 and WWTP Improvements Preliminary Engineering Report Public Hearing May 23, 2023 Public Hearing General Information: • There is a meeting attendance sheet. All present should sign -in so that we can include the information in the final document • There is also a speaker sheet. If anyone desires to speak, it will be appreciated if you will sign -in on the speaker sheet so that we will have that information. ■ The Preliminary Engineering Report is available for review at the office of the South Bend Public Works at 227 West Jefferson Blvd. Suite 1300 N South Bend, Indiana from May 12, 2023 through May 22, 2023. • This meeting may be recorded. Minutes of this meeting will be made a part of the final Preliminary Engineering Report submittal to the Indiana Finance Authority. o There is a written comment or question form attached to this handout. Please feel free to use this. All written questions or comments with contact information included will receive a written response. Written comments are preferred so that answers can be documented and made a part of the final document. • If responses to questions can be readily answered by the engineer or staff today, we will provide answers. If the response will require a more detailed effort or research, the response may be deferred to a written response provided to the speaker. In either case, an answer will be provided to all questions. i Please feel free to ask questions or provide comments. The City of South Bend respects public input regarding this effort. Project Need and General Summary: This Preliminary Engineering Report (PER) is for engineering design, bidding, construction, and start-up for the City of South Bend's Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) System CSO 045 2.0 MG Equalization Basin and for improvements to the current Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). The City of South Bend, Indiana is currently under a 2021 Consent Decree with the United States EPA, US Department of Justice, and the State of Indiana Department of Environmental Management. The purpose of the Consent Decree is to require the City of South Bend to comply with the Clean Water Act as it relates to combined sewer discharges to the ground or to Waters of the United States. As part of the Consent Decree, the City of South Bend completed a Long Term Control Plan (LTCP) for addressing these issues. The Consent Decree establishes a specific timeline for compliance and establishes a schedule for initiating and completing each project in the plan. The two projects discussed in this report, the WWTP CSO 045 Equalization Basin Project and the WWTP Hydraulic Improvements Project, are part of the work required for the purpose of reducing the volume and/or frequency of CSO events from the City's collection system and increasing the capacity of the WWTR This project involves the first of four CSO tanks installed as part of the Long Term Control Plan.