Resolution 16290 CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 16290
APPROVING THE CITY OF ALAMEDA SEWER SYSTEM
MANAGEMENT PLAN, JULY 1, 2025
WHEREAS, the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) previously
issued Order No. 2006-0003-DWQ, Statewide General Waste Discharge Requirements
for Sanitary Sewer Systems, dated May 2, 2006, which included, among other
requirements, the development of a Sewer System Management Plan (SSMP); and
WHEREAS, on July 21, 2009, City Council adopted Resolution No. 14634
approving the City's first SSMP and subsequently on October 21, 2014, adopted
Resolution No. 14976 approving an updated SSMP; and
WHEREAS, SWRCB Order No. 2006-0003-DWQ was replaced on December 6,
2022, by SWRCB Order WQ 2022-0103-DWQ Statewide Waste Discharge
Requirements, General Order for Sanitary Sewer Systems, which became effective on
June 5, 2023; and
WHEREAS, SWRCB Order WQ 2022-0103-DWQ requires updates and additions
to the previously required SSMP; and
WHEREAS, SWRCB Order WQ 2022-0103-DWQ requires the updated SSMP to
be presented to the City Council at a public meeting and formally adopted to assure that
the public can comment on the sewer system policies and procedures; and
WHEREAS, SWRCB Order WQ 2022-0103-DWQ requires a sewer system serving
a population the size of Alameda's to have a City Council approved updated SSMP
submitted to the SWRCB by August 2, 2025; and
WHEREAS, the updated SSMP is consistent with the City's work requirements in
the Final Consent Decree for Consolidated Case Nos. C 09-00186-RS and C 09-05684-
RS.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Alameda that
the Sewer System Management Plan, July 1, 2025, is approved.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly
and regularly adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a
regular meeting assembled on the 1st day of July 2025, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Boller, Daysog, Jensen, Pryor and
Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft— 5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said City this 2nd day of July 2025.
Lara Weisiger, Cite, Clerk
City of Alameda
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Yibin Shen, .city Attorney
City of Alameda