Title
Resolution to Approve the First Amendment to Memorandum of Agreement among the Hampton Roads Sanitation District and the Cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Poquoson, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, and Williamsburg; the Town of Smithfield; and the Counties of Gloucester, Isle of Wight, and York; and the James City Service Authority to Accelerate the Date HRSD will Assume Regulatory Authority for Wet Weather Overflows
Purpose
PURPOSE/BACKGROUND:
The Hampton Roads Sanitation District (“HRSD”) owns and operates an interceptor sewer system for the Hampton Roads localities, including the cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Poquoson, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, and Williamsburg; the town of Smithfield; and the counties of Gloucester, Isle of Wight, and York; and the James City Service Authority (the “Localities”). The Localities individually own and operate sanitary sewer collection systems, which collect sewage within their jurisdictional boundaries and deliver it to the HRSD sewer system for conveyance and treatment.
Due to pipe failures, electrical outages, infiltration and inflow, insufficient capacity in the collection, interceptor and treatment systems, and other factors, untreated sewage has been and is being discharged from various locations in the individual sanitary sewer collection systems and from HRSD to various state waters in the area. To address the regional wet weather sewer capacity requirement, on February 23, 2010, HRSD, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”), and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) entered into a Federal Consent Decree, requiring, among others things, that HRSD work with the Localities to develop a regional wet weather management plan (“RWWMP”) to ensure adequate wet weather sewer capacity in HRSD’s portion of the regional sewer system.
On March 10, 2014, HRSD and the Localities entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (the “MOA”) ...
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