Record · Compliance reports
Lima Consent Decree (CD)
edoc-3170422.progress-report
Fields
agency
U.S. EPA Region 5 / Ohio EPA
instrument
Lima Consent Decree (CD)
case_no
3:14-CV-02551-JZ
paragraph
33
respondent
City of Lima, Ohio
facility
City of Lima Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP)
permit_no
—
report_date
2017-01-26
period_start
2016-07-01
period_end
2016-12-31
deadlines_status
July 1, 2016 --- Required Lima to begin construction on the Headworks and Primary Clarification Improvements. Lima actually began construction on May 18, 2015 (ahead of deadline).
noncompliance_reasons
No noncompliance with CD deadlines noted; the Headworks construction deadline of July 1, 2016 was met early (construction began May 18, 2015). NPDES permit exceedances occurred but are reported separately under clause (e).
summary
This is the semiannual compliance progress report filed by the City of Lima, Ohio under Paragraph 33 of the Lima Consent Decree (Case 3:14-CV-02551-JZ) for the period July 1, 2016 through December 31, 2016. Lima reports that its one CD construction deadline (Headworks construction, due July 1, 2016) was met ahead of schedule, with six active projects in varying stages of completion including the Headworks Project, Upstream Regulator (now complete), and Simmon's Field CSO EQ Basin in preliminary engineering. Four NPDES permit exceedances and multiple SSO/CSO overflow events (detailed in Attachment C) are self-reported for the period.
note
Report received by Ohio EPA N.W.D.O. on January 26, 2017. Signed by Michael H. Prella, Director of Utilities, City of Lima, Ohio, and David J. Berger, Lima City Mayor. Counsel: Fred P. Andes (Barnes & Thornburg LLP) and Stephen P. Samuels (Frost Brown Todd LLC). CMOM Plan submitted to USEPA and Ohio EPA on July 10, 2015 but not yet approved as of this report. Attachment C (SSO & CSO Overflow Totals) updated 1/5/17 with Total # of Reports: 17. case_no normalized for the join: printed as "3:14-CV-02551-JZ Doc #5 Filed: 01/13/15", where the trailing text is one FILING inside the case rather than the case. The field holds the case number alone so this row joins edoc-412983.order.yaml.
projects
- name Lima Wastewater Treatment Headworks Project
- status Construction commenced July 1, 2015. Items placed in service: Bar screens #3 & #4; Primary settling tanks #1 and #2; Aerated grit tanks #1 and #2; Primary sludge pump station; Secondary effluent pump station; New Outfall (Station 001) to Ottawa River. Items in progress: Chlorine contact chamber construction; Primary settling tanks #3 and #4 construction; Primary scum screen; Drainage pump station; Chemical Feed building for sodium hypochlorite / sodium bisulfite; Aerated grit tanks #3 & #4.
- next_period See Attachment A (Gantt chart) for anticipated progress in next 6 months.
- name Upstream Regulator Project
- status In full operation on September 21, 2016. Final punch-out items including as-built drawings completed on November 30, 2016.
- next_period —
- name CMOM Plan Development
- status CMOM plan submitted to USEPA and OEPA on July 10, 2015. Lima has not received a response from the agency on the submittal.
- next_period Lima will implement the plan within 30 days of agency approval.
- name Asset Management
- status Final design documents nearing completion; development of bid documents for Phase 1 Rehabilitation of the Segmented Block Sewers is in progress. Survey work completed in November 2016.
- next_period Completion of the bid documents expected in the next six months.
- name Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP)
- status Lima submitted a final report via Geosyntec Consultants on June 30, 2016. Lima received a response letter from USEPA on December 15, 2016 indicating the SEP cannot be considered successfully completed at this time.
- next_period USEPA requests Lima to submit a Revised SEP Completion Report by January 31, 2018. USEPA also requests an interim letter of notification within 30 days of the replanting of 213 trees.
- name Simmon's Field CSO EQ Basin
- status City under contract with MWH Engineers for preliminary engineering. Four progress meetings occurred in the reporting period. Basis of Design document submitted on December 22, 2016.
- next_period Submittal of 30% and 60% design drawings expected. A Phase II Environmental Site Assessment is also expected to be performed.
agency_contacts
- July 20, 2016 --- Lima received a Preliminary Compliance Review letter from OEPA indicating a daily limit violation on June 6th for Total Chlorine Residual at Station 001.
- July 20, 2016 --- Lima submitted a response letter to OEPA concerning the June 6th daily limit violation for Total Chlorine Residual at Station 001.
- July 25, 2016 --- Lima received a NOV letter from OEPA concerning the discharge of sludge to the Ottawa River at Station 001.
- August 1, 2016 -- Lima submitted a letter to OEPA in response to the sludge discharge to the Ottawa River.
- August 8, 2016 --- Lima submitted a letter to USEPA concerning the sludge discharge to the Ottawa River.
- August 15, 2016 -- Lima submitted a letter to OEPA concerning the exceedance of the weekly limit for E.coli (31648).
- August 16, 2016 --- Lima submitted a second letter to OEPA concerning the second exceedance of the weekly limit for E.coli (31648).
- August 29, 2016 -- Lima submitted a letter to USEPA concerning the two E.coli exceedances.
- October 31, 2016 — Lima received a Resolution of Violation letter from OEPA indicating that all violations related to the sludge discharge on July 25, 2016 had been resolved.
- December 14, 2016 --- Lima submitted a response letter to OEPA concerning an effluent temperature violation at Station 604.
- December 15, 2016 -- USEPA sent a letter notifying Lima that the Supplemental Environmental Project, US and State of Ohio v. City of Lima Case Number: 33:14-cv-02551-JZ, had not been successfully completed.
- December 16, 2016 --- Lima received a letter from OEPA in response to a Reconnaissance Inspection conducted on 12/7/16 at the WWTP to observe the new pump station and outfall structure. There were no issues of concern.
permit_exceedances
- July 20, 2016 --- Lima's WWTP had an exceedance of the daily limit for Total Chlorine Residual at Station 001.
- August 14, 2016 -- Lima's WWTP had an exceedance of the weekly limit for E.coli (31648). The limit is 284/100ml. Lima's sample was TNTC.
- August 15, 2016 --- Lima's WWTP had an exceedance of the weekly limit for E.coli (31648). The limit is 284/100ml. Lima's sample was TNTC.
- December 13, 2016 --- Lima failed to record effluent temperature at Station 604.
discharge_events
- kind Water-in-Basement (WIB)
- location City mainline (specific location not stated)
- date —
- frequency 1 instance
- duration —
- volume —
- estimated —
- note Occurred as a result of debris that backed up the City's mainline. Line was immediately jetted and returned to normal service. Lima completed one WIB project in the last six month reporting period.
- kind SSO / CSO
- location Multiple locations — see Attachment C (SSO & CSO Overflow Totals, July 1 – December 31, 2016)
- date —
- frequency Total 71 Inflow reports, 38 SSO reports, 15 CSO reports across 17 total reports
- duration —
- volume —
- estimated —
- note Reported monthly to OEPA as part of the monthly Discharge Monitoring Report. Full detail in Attachment C.
⚠ Gaps in the record
- CLAUSE (f) IS AGGREGATED HERE, NOT ENUMERATED — 2 discharge_events for a period this report totals as the period's overflow totals. That is a property of the DOCUMENT, not a truncated read. The per-outfall table is present but is a scan of an embedded spreadsheet and its text layer is badly garbled ("Da!e Dr." for Dale Dr., "SSQ" for SSO, outfall ids running together with counts). Transcribing those rows would have invented outfall identifiers and event counts, so the aggregate the report states in prose is recorded instead and the rows are not. Prefer omission over invention.
- TO GET THE PER-OUTFALL ROWS, read the page images rather than the text layer — the same hazard and the same remedy as the consent decree's rotated Table A.1 (#2075). Sibling reports in this series (edoc-3170035, 2710558, 1104344, 1294257, 1611092) DO enumerate, at 49-54 events each, because their tables carry a clean text layer. The difference between 3 events and 50 in this genre is the scan quality, never the plant's behaviour — do NOT read a low discharge_events count as a quiet half-year.
Where it connects
oepa/lima/edoc-3170422.progress-report.yaml · p.1 · oepa