REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Approve Budget Modification No. 5 to Modify Funding for Two-Phase Feasibility Study of Structural Stormwater Best Management Practices for the SMaRT Station(r) and the Concrete Recycling Facility and Modify Contract with Geosyntec Accordingly
Report
BACKGROUND
Staff is preparing to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) for design of stormwater improvements at the Sunnyvale Materials Recovery and Transfer Station (SMaRT Station). Providing a complete scope of work for the design RFP requires an addendum to a previously prepared Feasibility Study and Implementation Plan. The addendum would address additional paved roadway, the SMaRT Station scales facility and associated stormwater infrastructure.
In 2013, San Francisco Baykeeper (Baykeeper) filed a lawsuit claiming that the City had failed to comply with the Industrial Stormwater Permit requirements of the federal Clean Water Act with regard to stormwater runoff at the SMaRT Station and various locations on the closed Sunnyvale Landfill. On December 6, 2013, a negotiated settlement agreement between the City and Baykeeper became effective.
Among the required actions was a Feasibility Study to determine the most effective and cost-efficient Best Management Practices (BMPs) for managing stormwater at the SMaRT Station. Following City/Baykeeper agreement on the approach recommended by the Feasibility Study, the next step was an Implementation Plan/Timeline setting out the steps for implementation.
A similar Feasibility Study process was required for the concrete recycling facility on the East Hill of the closed Sunnyvale Landfill, unless the City could credibly demonstrate that pollutants detected in stormwater runoff were from sources other than the concrete recycling operation.
In September 2014 the City Council approved a contract with Geosyntec in the amount of $166,887 for two projects related to the Baykeeper settlement: the SMaRT Station Feasibility Study ...
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