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CITY OF SOUTH BEND PETE BUTTIGIEG, MAYOR <br />DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS <br />October 9, 2013 <br />Mr. Derek Dieter <br />President, Common Council <br />4th Floor, Clerk's Office <br />County City Building <br />227 W. Jefferson Blvd. <br />South Bend, Indiana 46601 <br />Dear President Dieter; <br />Attached is an ordinance amending sections of the South Bend Municipal Code to adjust sewer <br />rates and charges incrementally through 2017. The rates set forth in the attached Ordinance are <br />set based on requirements of the City's approved Long Term Control Plan (LTCP) for Combined <br />Sewer Overflows and the negotiated Consent Decree between the City of South Bend, the United <br />States Environmental Protection Agency ( USEPA), and the Indiana Department of <br />Environmental Management (IDEM). This Consent Decree was entered into after the USEPA <br />and the IDEM filed a concurrent complaint alleging that the City of South Bend violated sections <br />of the Clean Water Act, the Indiana Code, and South Bend's National Pollutant Discharge <br />Elimination System ( NPDES) permit by discharging combined sewer overflows into waters of <br />the United States and waters of Indiana, and that those discharges have violated and continue to <br />violate South Bend's NPDES permit. <br />The proposed rates will support the first phases of the City's LTCP and will fund necessary <br />improvements to separate sewers, reduce sewage overflows to basements, and increase capacity <br />at the Wastewater Treatment Plant. The City has engaged a financial consultant, Crowe <br />Horwath, to prepare a Preliminary Rate and Financing Report. <br />Please contact me with any questions that you have on the changes to the sewer rate ordinance, <br />or the T.TCP <br />Sincerely, <br />Eric C. orvath, PE <br />Public Works Director <br />CITY Uk nC, <br />