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Jorge Acevedo, P.E.Jose Saucedo, P.E.

David Galeano

MIAMI-DADE WASD CONSENT DECREE AND THE IMPACT TO

THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES

August 30th, 2016

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OUTLINE

■ City of Coral Gables – History and Background

■ City’s Sanitary Sewer System

■ Miami-Dade Consent Decree

■ City’s Plan of Compliance

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History and Background

■ City within Miami-Dade County, Florida

■ Total Area of 37.2 Square Miles

● 13.1 sq. mi land

● 24.1 sq. mi Water

■ Adjacent to Biscayne Bay National Park

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History and Background

Coral Gables was established in 1925 as one of the first planned communities in U.S.

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History and Background

George Merrick together with a team of extraordinary designers, set out

to create a unique suburb of the City of Miami

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History and Background

Coral Gables is known as “the City Beautiful”

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History and Background

■ It is also home to the University of Miami Hurricanes

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History and Background

The City has a population of approximately 50,000

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OUTLINE

■ City of Coral Gables – History and Background

■ City’s Sanitary Sewer System

■ Miami Dade Consent Decree

■ City’s Plan of Compliance

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Sanitary Sewer System

■ 63.72 miles of gravity mains.

■ 1,421 manholes.

■ 35 Pump stations/ basins.

■ 22.21 miles of force mains.

■ 50% population served by

Sewer System.

■ Discharge into Miami-Dade

Water and Sewer System for

treatment.

■ Volume Sewer Customer.

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Sanitary Sewer System

Volume Sewer Customer” or “VSC” shall mean any

entity or municipality serviced on a bulk basis (at a

wholesale rate) by Miami-Dade within the territorial

limits of Miami-Dade County, and currently includes

the municipalities of Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor

Islands, Coral Gables, Florida City, Homestead,

Hialeah, Hialeah Gardens, Medley, Miami Beach,

North Miami, Opa Locka, North Bay Village, North

Miami Beach, Surfside and West Miami.

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OUTLINE

■ City of Coral Gables – History and Background

■ City’s Sanitary Sewer System

■ Miami - Dade Consent Decree

■ City’s Plan of Compliance

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Miami-Dade Consent Decree

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Miami-Dade Consent Decree

Miami Dade County has entered into a federally mandated Consent

Decree with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) and is

committing to making improvements to the wastewater collection and

treatment system totaling $1.6 Billion over the next 15 years.

The Effective Date for the Consent Decree is December 6, 2013

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Miami-Dade Consent Decree

Sec. 24-42.2(3)a:

● “Each utility or non-utility owned or operated sanitary sewer

collection system shall be evaluated in order to identify and

reduce infiltration and inflow into the sanitary sewer collection

system to less than five thousand (5,000) gallons per inch pipe

diameter per day per mile of pipe and laterals”

● “The utility or non-utility shall implement a sewer system

evaluation survey (SSES) and submit a report summarizing the

findings of the SSES to the Department for review and approval”

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Miami-Dade Consent Decree

Sec. 24-42.2(6):

● “Electronic Atlas. Each utility shall provide an electronic sanitary

sewer system atlas, in a format compatible with Miami-Dade

County Water and Sewer Department's electronic atlas and

approved by the Director or the Director's designee, which shall

be submitted to the Director or the Director's designee no later

than January 6, 2016…”

● …”Updates to the electronic atlas shall be submitted to the

Director or the Director's designee annually.”

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Miami-Dade Consent Decree

Sec. 24-42.2(7):

● “Collection and transmission system model. All utility owned or

operated sanitary sewer collection systems shall participate in a

County-wide, regional computerized collection and transmission

system model or models”…

● “The model or models for each collection and transmission

system shall be updated at intervals of no more than five (5)

years”…

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Miami-Dade Consent Decree

Sec. 24-42.2(8):

● “CMOM requirements for utilities. CMOM requirements set forth

herein shall apply to all utilities, except that for requirements other

than those of Sections 24-42.2(3)(a) and 24-42.2(9)(a), where a

utility is required to implement CMOM requirements under a U.S.

E.P.A. Consent Decree”…

● “requirements of this section and shall be reviewed and updated

annually by the utility and submitted as a CMOM Plan to the

Director on or before February 15 of each year”.

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Miami-Dade Consent Decree

Sec. 24-42.2(8):

● “Within one hundred and eighty (180) days of the effective date of

this Section, each utility shall submit to the Department an

approvable Plan of Compliance for the implementation of a

CMOM program that shall include all the requirements set forth in

Section 24-42.2(9) through (14). All of the staffing requirements

not otherwise noted in Section 24-42.2(9) through (14), shall be

satisfied within three hundred and sixty-five (365) days of the

Director or Director's designee approving the Plan of

Compliance.”

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Miami-Dade Consent Decree

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OUTLINE

■ City of Coral Gables – History and Background

■ City’s Sanitary Sewer System

■ Miami-Dade Consent Decree

■ City’s Plan of Compliance

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City’s Plan of Compliance

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City’s Plan of Compliance

● 1. Sewer Overflow Response Plan

● 2. Information Management System Program

● 3. Sewer System Asset Management Plan

● 4. Gravity Sewer System Operation and Maintenance Program

● 5. Pump Station Operations and Preventative Maintenance Program

● 6. Force Main Operations, Preventative Maintenance and

Assessment/ Rehabilitation Program

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City’s Plan of Compliance

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City’s Plan of Compliance4

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Questions?

Jorge Acevedo, P.E.E-mail: jacevedo2@coralgables.com

(305) 460-5006

CITY OF CORAL GABLES

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