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Case3:09-cv-05684-RS Document86-1 Filed09/08/14 Page1 of 217 1 SAM HIRSCH Acting Assistant Attorney General 2 Environment and Natural Resources Division United States Department of Justice 3 Washington, DC 20530 PATRICIA L. HURST 4 Senior Counsel Environmental Enforcement Section 5 Environment and Natural Resources Division United States Department of Justice 6 P.O. Box 7611 Ben Franklin Station Washington, DC 20044 7 (202) 307-1242 (telephone); (202) 616-2427 (facsimile) [email protected] 8 MELINDA HAAG 9 United States Attorney Northern District of California 10 450 Golden Gate Avenue, 11th Floor San Francisco, California 94102 11 Attorneys for Plaintiff United States of America 12 (Additional Attorneys Listed on Following Pages) 13 14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 15 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 16 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF Consolidated Case Nos. CALIFORNIA ex rel. CALIFORNIA STATE WATER RESOURCES C 09-00186-RS and 17 CONTROL BOARD and CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER C 09-05684-RS QUALITY CONTROL BOARD, SAN FRANCISCO BAY REGION, 18 FINAL CONSENT Plaintiffs, DECREE 19 SAN FRANCISCO BAYKEEPER and OUR CHILDREN’S EARTH 20 FOUNDATION, 21 Intervenor-Plaintiffs, 22 v. 23 EAST BAY MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT, 24 Defendant. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF 25 CALIFORNIA ex rel. CALIFORNIA STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD and CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER 26 QUALITY CONTROL BOARD, SAN FRANCISCO BAY REGION, 27 Plaintiffs, 28 Page 1 Consent Decree - Case Nos. C09-00186 and 09-05684 Case3:09-cv-05684-RS Document86-1 Filed09/08/14 Page2 of 217 SAN FRANCISCO BAYKEEPER, 1 Intervenor-Plaintiff, 2 v. 3 CITY OF ALAMEDA, et. al, 4 Defendants. 5 KAMALA D. HARRIS 6 Attorney General of the State of California ROBERT W. BYRNE 7 Senior Assistant Attorney General GAVIN G. McCABE 8 Supervising Deputy Attorney General JOHN DAVIDSON (SBN 50364) 9 DANIEL S. HARRIS (SBN 157433) Deputy Attorneys General 10 455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 11000 San Francisco, CA 94102 11 (415) 703-5530 (telephone); (415) 703-5480 (facsimile) [email protected] 12 Attorneys for Plaintiff People of the State of California ex rel. 13 California State Water Resources Control Board and California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region 14 (Additional Attorneys Listed on Following Pages) 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Page 2 Consent Decree - Case Nos. C09-00186 and 09-05684 Case3:09-cv-05684-RS Document86-1 Filed09/08/14 Page3 of 217 JYLANA D. COLLINS (SBN 107949) 1 CRAIG S. SPENCER (SBN 78277) JONATHAN D. SALMON (SBN 265681) 2 Office of General Counsel East Bay Municipal Utility District 3 375 Eleventh Street P.O. Box 24055 4 Oakland, CA 94607-4240 (510) 287-0174 (telephone); (510) 287-0162 (facsimile) 5 [email protected] 6 BRIAN S. HAUGHTON (SBN 111709) Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp, LLP 7 350 California Street, 22nd Floor San Francisco, California 94104-1435 8 (415) 228-5400 (telephone); (415) 228-5450 (facsimile) [email protected] 9 Attorneys for Defendant, East Bay Municipal Utility District 10 JANET KERN (SBN 151887) City Attorney 11 STEPHANIE GARRABRANT-SIERRA (SBN 142496) City of Alameda 12 2263 Santa Clara Avenue, Room 280 Alameda, CA 94501 13 (510) 747-4750 (telephone) [email protected] 14 Attorneys for Defendant, City of Alameda 15 KENTON L. ALM (SBN 59017) SARAH OLINGER (SBN 251546) 16 Meyers, Nave, Riback, Silver & Wilson 555 12th Street, Suite 1500 17 Oakland, CA 94607 (510) 808-2000 (telephone) 18 [email protected] Attorneys for Defendants, City of Albany, City of Piedmont and Stege 19 Sanitary District 20 (Additional Attorneys Listed on Following Page) 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Page 3 Consent Decree - Case Nos. C09-00186 and 09-05684 Case3:09-cv-05684-RS Document86-1 Filed09/08/14 Page4 of 217 ZACH COWAN, City Attorney (SBN 96372) 1 City of Berkeley 2180 Milvia Street, Fourth Floor 2 Berkeley, CA 94704 (510) 981-6998 (telephone); (510) 981-6960 (facsimile) 3 [email protected] Attorneys for Defendant, City of Berkeley 4 MICHAEL G. BIDDLE, City Attorney (SBN 139223) 5 City of Emeryville 1333 Park Avenue 6 Emeryville, CA 94608 (510) 596-4381 (telephone); (510) 596-3724 (facsimile) 7 [email protected] Attorneys for Defendant, City of Emeryville 8 BARBARA PARKER (SBN 69722) 9 CELSO DOLORES ORTIZ, Deputy City Attorney (SBN 95838) City of Oakland 10 One Frank Ogawa Plaza, 6th Floor Oakland, CA 94612 11 (510) 238-6236 (telephone); (510) 238-6500 (facsimile) [email protected] 12 Attorneys for Defendant, City of Oakland 13 JAMES J. DRAGNA (SBN 91492) MARILEE J. ALLAN (SBN 84166) 14 Bingham McCutchen LLP Three Embarcadero Center 15 San Francisco, CA 94111 (415) 393-2000 (telephone); (415) 393-2286 (facsimile) 16 [email protected] [email protected] 17 Attorneys for Defendant, City of Oakland 18 JASON FLANDERS (SBN 238007) San Francisco Baykeeper, Inc. 19 785 Market Street, Suite 850 San Francisco, California 94103 20 (415) 856-0444 (telephone); (415) 856-0443 (facsimile) [email protected] 21 Attorneys for San Francisco Baykeeper 22 CHRISTOPHER SPROUL (SBN 126398) Environmental Advocates 23 5135 Anza Street San Francisco, California 94121 24 (415) 533-3376 (telephone); (415) 358-5695 (facsimile) [email protected] 25 Attorneys for Our Children’s Earth Foundation and San Francisco Baykeeper 26 27 28 Page 4 Consent Decree - Case Nos. C09-00186 and 09-05684 Case3:09-cv-05684-RS Document86-1 Filed09/08/14 Page5 of 217 1 Table of Contents 2 I. JURISDICTION AND VENUE ............................................................................................ 14 3 II. APPLICABILITY .................................................................................................................. 14 4 III. OBJECTIVES ....................................................................................................................... 15 IV. DEFINITIONS ...................................................................................................................... 15 5 V. CIVIL PENALTIES .............................................................................................................. 31 6 VI. WORK – GENERAL ............................................................................................................ 32 7 VII. WORK – EBMUD ................................................................................................................. 34 A. REGIONAL SEWER LATERAL PROGRAM ........................................................ 34 8 B. REGIONAL TECHNICAL SUPPORT PROGRAM ................................................ 37 9 C. PUBLIC OUTREACH AND EDUCATION PROGRAM ........................................ 44 10 D. ASSET MANAGEMENT AND INTERIM OPERATION ...................................... 45 E. COMPLIANCE WITH EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS .............................................. 46 11 F. FLOW MODEL CALIBRATION PLAN PREPARATION ..................................... 47 12 G. FLOW MODEL CALIBRATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION ............................ 49 13 VIII. WORK – CITY OF ALAMEDA ........................................................................................... 50 A. IMPLEMENTATION OF EXISTING PROGRAM AND IMPROVEMENTS ....... 50 14 B. I&I REDUCTION WORK ........................................................................................ 51 15 C. SSO WORK ............................................................................................................... 58 IX. WORK – CITY OF ALBANY .............................................................................................. 59 16 A. IMPLEMENTATION OF EXISTING PROGRAM AND IMPROVEMENTS ....... 59 17 B. I&I REDUCTION WORK ........................................................................................ 59 18 C. SSO WORK ............................................................................................................... 65 X. WORK – CITY OF BERKELEY .......................................................................................... 66 19 A. IMPLEMENTATION OF EXISTING PROGRAM AND IMPROVEMENTS ....... 66 20 B. I&I REDUCTION WORK ........................................................................................ 66 21 C. SSO WORK ............................................................................................................... 73 XI. WORK – CITY OF EMERYVILLE ..................................................................................... 73 22 A. IMPLEMENTATION OF EXISTING PROGRAM AND IMPROVEMENTS ....... 73 23 B. I&I REDUCTION WORK ........................................................................................ 74 24 C. SSO WORK ............................................................................................................... 79 XII. WORK – CITY OF OAKLAND ........................................................................................... 80 25 A. IMPLEMENTATION OF EXISTING PROGRAM AND IMPROVEMENTS ....... 80 26 B. I&I REDUCTION WORK ........................................................................................ 80 27 C. SSO WORK ............................................................................................................... 88 XIII. WORK – CITY OF PIEDMONT .......................................................................................... 92 28 Page 5 Consent Decree - Case Nos. C09-00186 and 09-05684 Case3:09-cv-05684-RS Document86-1 Filed09/08/14 Page6 of 217 A. IMPLEMENTATION OF EXISTING PROGRAM AND IMPROVEMENTS ....... 92 1 B. I&I REDUCTION