Okay, so it's six o'clock.

We'll go ahead and start the Monday, September 29th, 2025 work session of the Australia City Council.

Again, for the record, it's 6 p.m.

Mr.

Spence, if we can have a roll call, please.

Counselor Davis.

Here.

Counselor Long.

Here.

Counselor Mazzarella.

Here.

Counselor Adams.

Mayor Fitzpatrick.

Here.

So I will just state that I am nursing a kidney stone, which is not the first time.

And I'll be taking a minute for that very shortly.

But just to make you aware if I need to leave, I did feel it move when I was in between the arms this afternoon.

And I'll can be kind of excruciating.

So just make you aware of that in case I leave the room.

We have four items on the agenda tonight.

And three A is the Australia Combined Sewer Overflow Integrated Plan.

I'm going to let Mr.

Spence introduce that, and then we will hear it from our community development.

I'm sorry, our public works director.

Thank you, Marion City Council.

Have some really good news.

You may recall in January when we were talking about our capital improvement plan.

A key aspect of trying to meet one of our many goals is to get an integrated plan approved by DEQ.

And I don't want to steal Jeff Harrington, our public works director's thunder, but he has an update on that one.

We want to provide you a presentation and overview and what that means for our utility, specifically our rates, and then also a proposed action that we need to take for our next regular scheduled uh city council meeting.

So with that, I'm going to have um Jeff Harrington go through a slide presentation.

Okay, thank you, everybody.

I'm gonna kind of go through this fast because I have a lot of information.

I just wanted to give you kind of a recap on what we might have covered last time with some new information.

So we have changed the title from the um integrated plan to the Astoria Combined Sewer Overflow integrated plan to give it more description and uh help the readers understand what the subject is and where we're uh where the project is.

Um so um here's some milestones.

So 1972, previous prior to 1972, um, actually in our case uh 1975, when we built our sewer system, interceptor diversion structures and the wastewater treatment plant, uh sewage and um sewage combined it combined um wastewater and stormwater, and it all just ran out to the river in pipes.

So when the Clean Water Act came about, the idea was to clean up the environment.

Um three years later, we were building uh sewer interceptor system that intercepted those lines, picked up as much of it as it could and took it to the wastewater plant, and then what it couldn't take during our large storms overflowed into the river.

So um later on, 1993, so almost 20 years down the road, DEQ comes in with a stipulation and final order to mandate us to um uh reduce our overflows.

And we're reducing our over we had a master plan on the overflows.

There's I'll get to it a little later, but there's two different techniques for doing that, one separation and one is storage, and we're doing both.

Um in uh 1998, we we got the facility plan completed.

In 2005 was our first construction project, and then 2015 we had an amended stipulation order that basically just gave us an extension from 2022 to 2028.

So that's kind of a precursor to what the integrated plan is all about.

The integrated plan is just a more enhanced version of a time extension, but it it stipulates a lot of other uh things and actually demonstrates the the need so we can uh convince the um environmental protection agency that this is warranted.

Um 2016, we have uh 11 major uh projects completed and um estimated about three to four more projects to go to control the last nine outfalls, and then 2028 was the um amended deadline in the um uh amended stipulation order.

Um so this is uh recap real quickly of our outfall locations.

So there's 38 of those throughout the city.

This gives you a rough idea of where they're at, all equally dispersed pretty much more downtown than other areas.

Um this is uh a diagram we've showed before of uh kind of showing normal conditions and then we have these weirs in place that uh during heavy rains, the stormwater will be sending um about 18 to 20 million gallons a day to the wastewater plant.

So that's treating a lot of what's coming at at us, and then when you get to the point where that's overwhelmed, um it overflows into the river.

Okay, this is the five phases of the uh projects.

Uh phase five is the last one we have left.

The largest portion of that is the uh what we call upper town Irving Avenue from about 23rd to 38th Street, and that's gonna be um uh subject of of uh one of our larger goals of getting that done.

And that's going to be um uh subject of of uh one of our larger goals of getting that done.

So once again, here two types of a project separation is storage.

Uh separation is example.

There's just a pipe piping system that either adds new um storm that the stormwater goes into or new sewer that the sewer goes into.

You're just separating the two, you can go either way, whatever makes more sense.