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<br /> Minutes of Adjourned Regular Meeting
<br /> Redwood City Council
<br /> September 18 , 1973 7 : 30 P . M .
<br /> Veterans Memorial Building
<br /> Mayor Keckley called the meeting to order at 7 : 30 p . m .
<br /> ON ROLL CALL , the following were noted present : Councilmen Mary W . Henderson,
<br /> Marguerite Leipzig, Robert E . Norris , William C . Rhodes , Ray A . Weymouth ,
<br /> James S . Williams , Mayor Paul C . Keckley , and City Clerk Marian McCrindle . Also
<br /> noted present were City Manager James M . Fales , Jr . , City Attorney David E .
<br /> Schricker , Assistant City Manager James M . Smith , Deputy Director of Public
<br /> Works - Operations , Warren Mitchell , Planning Director Ken Schroeter , and
<br /> Stenographer Anna Hampton ,
<br /> Planning Commission members present were : Richard E . Arnold , Elise M . Johnson ,
<br /> Melvin C . Kerwin , and John G . Murphy .
<br /> Mayor Keckley announced that since the full Council was in attendance , they had
<br /> unanimously chosen Allan Rollins to serve on the Parks and Recreation Commission ,
<br /> term expiring April 1977 .
<br /> Report by Jenks & Adamson , Counsulting Sanitary Engineers , on the San Mateo County
<br /> Water Quality Management Program . ( For full text see City Clerk ' s file , San
<br /> Mateo County Water Quality Management Program - Synopsis , 1973 . )
<br /> Mr . John Jenks , Jenks & Adamson, Consulting Sanitary and Civil Engineers , quickly
<br /> noted some of the participating agencies and that Warren Mitchell , Deputy
<br /> Director of Public Works-Operations , had been on the steering committee . Mr .
<br /> Jenks introduced his associate , Richard E . Dowd , Vice President and Project
<br /> Manager .
<br /> Mr . Jenks brought Council up to date on the history and background of the project
<br /> and where the City ' s program would fit into the plan as a whole . He commented on
<br /> the fact that prior to the late 1940 ' s and early 1950 ' s essentially there had
<br /> been no sewage treatment (now called wastewater treatment ) in the Bay Area . As
<br /> far as Redwood City was concerned it had been in 1949 along with San Carlos and
<br /> Belmont that action had been taken to construct the first primary treatment plant
<br /> to serve this particular area and the contracting agencies , particularly North
<br /> - Fair Oaks District , to stop the discharge of untreated sewage into the waters of
<br /> Redwood Slough at the foot of Steinberger Street . The City enlarged the treat -
<br /> ment plant in 1957 and went from a primary to an intermediary level of treatment .
<br /> As early as 1967 the City had been cognizant of the need of long-range objectives
<br /> for treatment and storage of wastewater that would call for , "A " -higher level
<br /> treatment and , "B " -an outfall line to a point of disposal into something other
<br /> than Redwood Creek . In 1967 not only the City ( incl . San Carlos , Belmont ) but
<br /> the County had come face to face with thosekinds of apparent needs and during
<br /> this time the Strategic Consolidated Sewerage Plan ( SCSP) had been organized .
<br /> He stated that looking back in history , as this was being seen today, this en-
<br /> lightened effort on the part of the three cities involved , had served as what he
<br /> thought would be somewhat of a model as far as administration and institutional
<br /> arrangements would be concerned in the approach on the part of the three commu-
<br /> nities working together to solve a subregional type of problem in a very pro -
<br /> gressive forward type of effort .
<br /> The program that had been developed originally involved a two - stage effort ; first
<br /> phase being to remove the discharge from the waters of Redwood Creek , and in the
<br /> case of San Carlos and Belmont , the Steinberger Slough , and convey the treated
<br /> wastewater to the offshore waters of the Bay off the Redwood Peninsula some mile
<br /> and a half into 40 feet of very swiftly moving water- - the second phase envi -
<br /> sioned , based upon the economic studies that had been made at that time , was that
<br /> when the existing treatment plants of Redwood City, San Carlos , Belmont had
<br /> reached their capacity , it would then be an appropriate time to abandon the two
<br /> existing plants and construct one subregional plant that would serve the area
<br /> and provide a full secondary treatment together with the initial capacity needed
<br /> to accommodate the then anticipated growth and to continue to use the outfall
<br /> system that had been constructed in 1971 .
<br /> He noted that Redwood City was not alone in its present inadequate wastewater
<br /> treatment and disposal facilities that the same condition existed for virtually
<br /> all other wastewater dischargers in the San Francisco Bay area , as well as dis -
<br /> chargers throughout the state and nation . He further established that waste -
<br /> water dischargers , substantial wastewater treatment and disposal facilities
<br /> improvements had to be made in order to meet current State and Federal disposal
<br /> objectives and requirements . Mr . Jenks advised that to help finance the project ,
<br /> to receive the State and Federal grants , the fundamental condition would be that
<br /> any project that was devised must be found to be within conformity with a
<br /> regional type plan that would be acceptable to the State and Federal Government .
<br /> 9/18/73
<br /> Adj . Reg . Mtg .
<br /> Joint City Council/Planning Commission
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