Record · Compliance reports
Lima Consent Decree (CD)
edoc-472902.progress-report
Fields
agency
U.S. EPA (USEPA) / Ohio EPA (OEPA), N.W.D.O.
instrument
Lima Consent Decree (CD)
case_no
3:14-CV-02551-JZ
paragraph
33
respondent
City of Lima, Ohio
facility
Lima Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP)
permit_no
—
report_date
2016-08-01
period_start
2016-01-01
period_end
2016-06-30
deadlines_status
(1) January 31, 2016 — Required bid date for the Headworks Improvements Project. This was completed on 5/15/15. Full operation is required by 7/1/18. (2) June 30, 2016 — Required completion date for the Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP). Project completed on time.
noncompliance_reasons
None noted.
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 reporting period January 1, 2016 through June 30, 2016, received by Ohio EPA on August 1, 2016. The report documents progress on six ongoing projects including the Headworks Project, Upstream Regulator Project, and the completed SEP, and self-reports two NPDES permit exceedances (TSS and Total Residual Chlorine), 40 SSO and 16 CSO overflow events all attributable to rainfall, 5 Water-in-Basement events, and one accidental Sodium Hypochlorite discharge that resulted in an NOV now resolved. CMOM sewer cleaning, CCTV inspection, and rehabilitation activities are also reported for the period.
note
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. Two bar screens in service, two bar screens in progress; Primary tanks #1 and #2 completed (expected service date 8/1/16); Aerated grit tanks #1 and #2 completed (expected service date 8/1/16); Primary sludge pump station complete (expected service date 8/1/16); Secondary effluent pump station construction in progress; Chlorine contact chamber construction in progress.
- next_period See attached Gantt chart for anticipated progress in the next 6 months.
- name Upstream Regulator Project
- status Installation of all sanitary sewers, storm sewers, manholes and catch basins is complete. All curb and gutter repair, street resurfacing and landscaping is complete. Work items expected to be completed during the reporting period include the weir wall modification at CSO #38 and planting of 12 trees in Faurot Park. Project is approximately 98% complete and is on schedule.
- next_period Full operation by June 30, 2017.
- name CMOM Plan Development
- status CMOM plan was 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 Flow meters installed at intersection of High Street and Rosedale Avenue and High Street and Cole Street for two months beginning 2/18/16. On 4/4/16, City cleaned and inspected 2,172 feet of 54" sewer and 550 feet of 78" sewer on High Street and Jameson Avenue. On 6/2/16, rain gage data from WWTP sent to MWH to further calibrate hydraulic model.
- next_period Completion of final design and development of bid documents for Phase 1 Rehabilitation project.
- name Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP)
- status City contracted with Geosyntec Consultants, Ann Arbor, Michigan, to complete the environmental components. Project completed on time by June 30, 2016.
- next_period —
- name Simmon's Field CSO EQ Basin
- status City authorized a contract with MWH Engineers on 2/8/16 for a preliminary engineering study. A kick-off meeting was conducted on 4/5/16.
- next_period —
agency_contacts
- March 1, 2016 -- Underground Utilities, on behalf of the City of Lima and as part of the Upstream Regulator Sewer Separation Project, received authorization from OEPA to conduct construction activity at the Collett Street City Dump site pursuant to OAC 3745-27-13.
- March 17, 2016 --- Lima received a Preliminary Compliance Review Letter from OEPA indicating a weekly average limit violation for TSS at Station 604.
- March 18, 2016 --- Lima submitted a response letter to OEPA concerning the weekly average limit violation.
- April 25, 2016 --- Lima submitted a letter of explanation to OEPA concerning a potential accidental discharge of Sodium Hypochlorite from the WWTP on April 14, 2016.
- April 27, 2016 --- Lima received a Fact Sheet and NPDES Draft permit from OEPA for an initial 14-day review.
- May 12, 2016 --- Lima submitted a follow-up letter to OEPA concerning the Sodium Hypochlorite discharge.
- May 23, 2016 --- Lima submitted a letter to OEPA containing its preliminary comments to the draft NPDES permit.
- June 1, 2016 --- Lima received an NOV letter from OEPA concerning the Sodium Hypochlorite discharge.
- June 6, 2016 --- Lima submitted a notification letter to OEPA informing of a daily maximum limit exceedance of Total Residual Chlorine at Station 001.
- June 10, 2016 --- Lima submitted a letter to OEPA requesting a change in the Operator of Record at the WWTP.
- June 15, 2016 --- Lima submitted a response letter to OEPA concerning the June 1 Sodium Hypochlorite NOV. Note: subsequent letter from OEPA on July 11, and a response by the City on July 25; NOV is now resolved.
permit_exceedances
- February 2016 --- Lima's WWTP had an exceedance of the weekly average limit of 20 mg/l for Total Suspended Solids at Station 604. Lima recorded an average of 25.47 mg/l for the week of February 21-28, 2016. This exceedance was due to a significant rain event on 2/24/16; high flows from the rain event, in conjunction with headworks construction underway at the plant, limited capacity to process suspended solids.
- June 6, 2016 --- Lima's WWTP had an exceedance of the daily maximum limit of 0.02 mg/l for Total Residual Chlorine at Station 001. Lima recorded 0.3 mg/l. This exceedance was due to inadequate adjustment of the chlorine feed rate as flows decreased following a rain event. Operator training measures have been instituted.
discharge_events
- kind SSO
- location Various (see attached Overflow Totals Report — SSO & CSO Monthly Reporting, January 1 – June 30, 2016)
- date 2016-01-01 to 2016-06-30
- frequency 40 SSO overflow events total; all directly related to rainfall events
- duration —
- volume —
- estimated —
- note SSO & CSO Monthly Reporting — See attached Overflow Totals Report. Reported monthly to OEPA as part of monthly Discharge Monitoring Report. All 40 SSOs cited on overflow report were directly related to rainfall events.
- kind CSO
- location Various (see attached Overflow Totals Report — SSO & CSO Monthly Reporting, January 1 – June 30, 2016)
- date 2016-01-01 to 2016-06-30
- frequency 16 CSO overflow events total
- duration —
- volume —
- estimated —
- note SSO & CSO Monthly Reporting — See attached Overflow Totals Report. Reported monthly to OEPA as part of monthly Discharge Monitoring Report.
- kind Water-in-Basement (WIB)
- location Various mainline surcharge locations
- date 2016-01-01 to 2016-06-30
- frequency 5 instances
- duration —
- volume —
- estimated —
- note Lima recorded 5 instances of WIB due to surcharge conditions in the mainline. Lima completed 3 WIB projects over the last six month period. Two additional project bids have been awarded and are expected to be completed in the next reporting period.
- kind Unpermitted discharge — Sodium Hypochlorite
- location Lima WWTP
- date 2016-04-14
- frequency 1 instance
- duration —
- volume —
- estimated —
- note Potential accidental discharge of Sodium Hypochlorite from the WWTP on April 14, 2016. NOV received June 1, 2016; NOV subsequently resolved.
⚠ Gaps in the record
- CLAUSE (f) IS AGGREGATED HERE, NOT ENUMERATED — 4 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.
- OCR layer is unreliable; numeric figures (e.g., mg/l values, linear feet, overflow counts) were verified against the document images.
- The Overflow Totals Report (Attachment) lists individual SSO/CSO locations and frequencies; individual location-level discharge events were aggregated here rather than listed separately, as the report itself presents them as a summary table.
- Report received stamp date (AUG 01 2016) used as report_date; actual submission/filing date is not explicitly stated on the face of the report.
Where it connects
oepa/lima/edoc-472902.progress-report.yaml · p.1 · oepa