City Council Resolution 1977-07RESOLUTION ADOPTING
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
EFFLUENT QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PLAN
WHEREAS, the City of Monticello has received and
reviewed the above entitled report prepared by the
engineering firm of Orr-Schelen-Mayeron and Associates.
WHEREAS, the above entitled report was prepared to
investigate potential measures to resolve the City of
Monticello's high effluent quality which was in excess
of the city's NPDES permit standards of BODS 25 mg~l
and SS 30 mg~l.
WHEREAS, the above entitled report recommends the
most cost effective interim remedy measure prior to
updating its present wastewater treatment plant is a
chemical flocculation of raw wastewater by alum and
polymer addition.
WHEREAS, City of Monticello representatives met
with Minnesota Pollution Control Agency officials on
July 22, 1977 and the MPCA officials accepted the
findings of the above entitled report and agreed to
recommend a reduction of the NPDES permit quality
effluent limitations to:
BODS 60 mg~l, ~~ 30 mg~l f rom April 1 - October 31 and
BODS 80 mg~l, SS 40 mg~l from November 1 to March 31
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of
Monticello does hereby adopt the above entitled report,
directs that a chemical flocculation of raw wastewater
by alum and polymer addition be carried out and concurs
with the revised limitation for its quality effluent
limitation indicated above.
Passed by the City Council
this 27th day of July, 1977
and unanimously carried.
Gary ieber, City Administrator