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MEMORANDUM
TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Scott De Leon, Water Resources Director
DATE: September 17, 2019
SUBJECT: (Sitting as the Lake County Watershed Protection District Board of Directors) Consideration of (a) Resolution approving an Agreement between the County of Lake, Lake County Watershed Protection District, City of Clearlake and City of Lakeport for the Implementation and Maintenance of the Lake County Clean Water Program; (b) Designating a member of the County of Lake Board of Supervisors to act as the County's authorized representative to the Clean Water Program Management Council, and authorize an additional member of the Board of Supervisors to serve as an alternate; and (c) Approval for the Director of Water Resources to be the designated representative, and appoint an alternate, for the District.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
This item for the County of Lake Board of Supervisors and Board of Directors Lake County Watershed Protection District to approve the Clean Water Program Agreement with the co-permittees of the City of Lakeport and City of Clearlake. Approval of this agreement is necessary in order to comply with the State Water Resources Control Board National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES Phase II) General Permit.
Please find attached the current agreement between Lake County Watershed Protection District, County of Lake, and the cities of Lakeport and Clearlake. This agreement has been updated to reflect current storm water general permit requirements from the last prior agreement executed in 2004.
In October 2003, the District, County of Lake, City of Clearlake and the City of Lakeport submitted a joint storm water management plan to the state. The plan ensured compliance with state requirements for storm water discharges under our municipal separate storm water sewer systems (MS4) general permit. On July 7, 2004 the state authorized co-permittees to discharge under a general Permit, provided that municip...
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