Resolution 78-15550-A RESOLUTION NO. 78-15550 A
A RESOLUTION REQUESTING MIAMI-DADE WATER AND SEWER,
AUTHORITY TO CONTACT THE UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AGENCY TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER THEY WILL
ENTERTAIN AN APPLICATION FROM DADE COUNTY UNDER THE
CLEAN WATER ACT OF 1977 TO MODIFY THE SECONDARY
TREATMENT REQUIREMENT OF THE VIRGINIA KEY WASTE-
WATER TREATMENT PLANT.
WHEREAS, the City of Miami Beach has a contract with the
Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Authority for, the construction of a
connection to the wastewater treatment plant at Virginia Key and
for the disposal of the City' s sewage at said plant; and
WHEREAS, Public Law 92-500, the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act, Amendments of 1972, was amended on December 27, 1977,
by Public Law 95-217, commonly referred to as the "Clean Water Act
of 1977" ; and
WHEREAS, Section 1311 (h) of said Clean Water Act of 1977
provides a procedure and certain criteria for a modification of
discharge requirements of any pollutant in an existing discharge
from a publicly owned treatment works into marine waters if certain
conditions are met; and
WHEREAS, it would be in the City' s best interests to use
deep current assimiliation, said deep current assimiliation being
a permissible modification of the discharge requirement under the
provisions of the Clean Water Act of 1977,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF
THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, that Miami-Dade Water and Sewer
Authority is requested to contact the United States Environmental
Protection Agency to ascertain whether they will entertain an
application from Dade County under the Clean Water Act of 1977
to modify the secondary treatment requirement of the Virginia Key
Wastewater Treatment Plant.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 15th day of February, 1978.
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Mayor
Attest:
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City Clerk
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OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY-1700 CONVENTION CENTER DRIVE-MIAMI BEACH,FLORIDA 33139
ORIGINAL
RESOLUTION NO. 78-15550A
(Requesting Miami-Dade Water & Sewer
Authority to contact the EPA,etc.