Resolution 13409CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO.13409
ACKNOWLEDGING EAST BAY MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT
FOR 50 YEARS OF PROVIDING WASTEWATER SERVICES
WHEREAS, the East Bay Municipal Utility District ( EBMUD) was created in May, 1923
by a vote of the citizens, and Special District No. 1 (SD -1) was created in November, 1944 by a vote
of citizens in the six East Bay cities of Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland and
Piedmont to address East Bay sewage treatment and disposal challenges, and Stege Sanity District,
which serves the communities of El Cerrito, Kensington, and a small part of Richmond, joined SD -1
in 1970; and
WHEREAS, EBMUD has built and operated since 1951 a state -of -the art wastewater
treatment system, continually improving the process and public benefits, and through such efforts
EBMUD has contributed significantly to the health and safety of the region and has lessened the
impact of wastewater discharges into the San Francisco Bay; and
WHEREAS, EBMUD provides wastewater treatment services for more than 641,500 people
and more than 15, 500 businesses, and has won three Gold Awards from the Association of
Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies for three years of operations in which there were no discharge
permit violations, thus protecting the Bay's water quality; and
WHEREAS, since 1972, EBMUD has required industrial and appropriate commercial
customers to remove such toxins as heavy metals and organic pollutants by carrying out management
practices, process controls and/or pretreatment before discharging their wastes into the sewer, thus
protecting the Bay, and EBMUD leadership in pollution prevention has been recognized nationally
with the honor or being the only agency of its size to have won the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency's National Pretreatment Excellence Award an unprecedented three times; and
WHEREAS, EBMUD continuously demonstrates its strong commitment to environmental
protection and resource conservation at the SD -1 water pollution control facility by: recycling
valuable soil nutrients through farmland application of biosolids, a by- product of the wastewater
treatment process; recovering methane gas, another treatment process by- product, to fuel a 4.2
megawatt power plant that generates almost half of the electrical power needed to operate the
wastewater plant; and producing recycled water for landscape irrigation and industrial processes; and
WHEREAS, EBMUD has a recycled water program for the entire EBMUD service area with
a goal to beneficially reclaim and reuse 14 million gallons per day of highly- treated wastewater by
2020, thereby providing additional Bay protection through reduced discharges to the Bay of a like
amount, and
WHEREAS, EBMTJD's Wet Weather Program, at a cost of $240 million and in cooperation
with other communities, protects the Bay by treating storm water - induced wet weather overflows
that would otherwise be discharged directly to the Bay.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Alameda congratulates and
commends the East Bay Municipal Utility District on the 50th anniversary of operations at Special
District No l's Water Pollution Control Plant, recognizing 50 years of proudly protecting the San
Francisco Bay.
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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 6th
day of November, 2001, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, Johnson, Kerr and
Mayor Appezzato - 4.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Mayor DeWitt -
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City
this 7th day of November, 2001.
Lara Weisiger, City C1erk
City of Alameda