Record · Compliance reports
Lima Consent Decree (CD), Doc #5 Filed 01/13/15
edoc-990795.progress-report
Fields
agency
U.S. EPA Region 5 / Ohio EPA (Division of Surface Water)
instrument
Lima Consent Decree (CD), Doc #5 Filed 01/13/15
case_no
3:14-CV-02551-JZ
paragraph
33
respondent
City of Lima, Ohio
facility
City of Lima Wastewater Treatment Plant / Sewer System
permit_no
—
report_date
2019-02-04
period_start
2018-07-01
period_end
2018-12-31
deadlines_status
(1) July 1, 2018 --- Lima was required to submit a WWTP Flow Maximization Plan. Lima submitted the plan on June 28, 2018 (submitted early, in compliance).
noncompliance_reasons
None stated. All identified deadlines were met (WWTP Flow Maximization Plan submitted June 28, 2018, before the July 1, 2018 deadline).
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 July 1, 2018 through December 31, 2018. Lima reports that all identified deadlines were met, with five named capital and program projects underway, including the Simmon's Field CSO EQ Basin under active construction. The report identifies two NPDES permit exceedances, one WIB event, and 146 total SSO/CSO overflow events during the period, as detailed in the attached Overflow Totals Report.
note
Report received by Ohio EPA N.W.D.O. on FEB 04 2019. Signed by Michael H. Caprella, Director of Utilities, City of Lima, Ohio. Attachment includes SSO & CSO Overflow Totals for July 1 – December 31, 2018 and a Gantt chart (Peterson Construction Company, Lima CSO Classic Schedule Layout). Secondary ID stamped: 2PF00000 (partially legible).
projects
- name Lima Wastewater Treatment Headworks Project
- status Commenced construction July 1, 2015. Building and tank construction is complete.
- next_period Continuation of seeding of the nitrification tower and performance testing of the tower for TSS and BOD removal.
- name CMOM Plan
- status Lima submitted a plan revision to USEPA on 7/31/18 that included changes requested by Mr. Todd Brown in an email dated 3/20/18.
- next_period —
- name Asset Management — Phase 1 High Street/Jameson Avenue Sewer Rehabilitation Project
- status Contract documents signed and Notice-to-Proceed issued 7/17/18. Field activities commenced 9/18/18. Progress includes dye-water testing of laterals and installation of the first manhole.
- next_period Complete installation of 10-inch PVC sanitary sewer and manholes on High Street between N. Rosedale and N. Jameson; begin HDPE lining of the 78-inch and 54-inch segmented block sewers.
- name Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP)
- status Project is complete. Maintenance of the project area will continue with the possibility of a spring burning.
- next_period Continued maintenance; possibility of spring burning.
- name Simmon's Field CSO EQ Basin
- status Excavation of soil and rock to base elevation complete; diversion structure and partial completion of 96-inch diversion pipe; partial completion of pump station wet well; completion of bridge over Ottawa River for future force main; completion of rock anchor installation; partially completed base slab; initial framing of wall structure.
- next_period Completion of base slab; continued construction of walls and interior support structures; continued construction of pump station wet well; continued construction of 96-inch diversion pipe. See attached Gantt chart for more detailed activities.
agency_contacts
- July 31, 2018 --- Lima submitted to USEPA and OEPA a revised CMOM Plan and CSOOP that included changes requested in a letter from USEPA on 3/20/18.
- September 21, 2018 --- Lima submitted to OEPA a CSO Public Notification Plan.
- October 5, 2018 --- Lima submitted a SSO 5-day Follow-up Report to OEPA concerning the failure of a check valve at the Mumaugh Road Lift Station that occurred on 10/4/18.
- October 11, 2018 --- Lima submitted a revised CSO Public Notification Plan that addressed changes requested by OEPA in a comment letter dated 9/27/18.
- October 19, 2018 --- Lima received a letter of approval from OEPA for the CSO Notification Plan.
permit_exceedances
- July 7, 2018 --- Lima recorded 'AD' values for overflow volume at Stations 002 and 003. The sensors were in the process of being replaced and reprogrammed. That work has been completed.
- August 23, 2018 --- Lima submitted a response letter to OEPA in reference to an exceedance of mercury and ammonia at Station 604, as identified on the Preliminary Compliance Report dated 8/21/18.
discharge_events
- kind WIB (Water-in-Basement)
- location Manhole invert (debris blockage causing basement backup)
- date —
- frequency 1 occurrence during reporting period
- duration —
- volume —
- estimated —
- note Debris collected in a manhole invert causing flow to back up into a basement. Lima completed 3 WIB projects this reporting period, bringing total home projects to 144 since program inception.
- kind SSO & CSO
- location Multiple locations — see attached Overflow Totals Report
- date 2018-07-01 to 2018-12-31
- frequency 114 SSO overflows, 32 CSO overflows (Total 146 overflow reports across 53 locations)
- duration —
- volume —
- estimated —
- note Numbers reported monthly to OEPA as part of the monthly Discharge Monitoring Report. See attached Overflow Totals Report for detail. Report updated 1-15-19; Total # of Reports: 23.
⚠ Gaps in the record
- CLAUSE (f) IS AGGREGATED HERE, NOT ENUMERATED — 2 discharge_events for a period this report totals as 114 SSO overflows and 32 CSO overflows (the table's own OverflowTotals row, "Total # of Reports....23", sourced to Overflows Monthly 2018.xlsx). 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-990795.progress-report.yaml · p.1 · oepa