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Lima Consent Decree (CD)
edoc-2710557.progress-report
Fields
agency
U.S. EPA Region 5 / Ohio EPA (Division of Surface Water, Northwest District Office)
instrument
Lima Consent Decree (CD)
case_no
3:14-CV-02551-JZ
paragraph
33
respondent
City of Lima, Ohio (Director of Utilities: Michael H. Cappa)
facility
City of Lima Wastewater Treatment / Sewer System, Lima, Ohio
permit_no
—
report_date
2018-07-31
period_start
2018-01-01
period_end
2018-06-30
deadlines_status
January 31, 2018 --- Lima was required to submit a Revised Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP) Completion Report. Lima submitted the report on 1/30/18 (one day early — met).
noncompliance_reasons
None reported. All identified deadlines were met.
permit_exceedances
—
summary
This is Lima's semiannual Consent Decree progress report for the period January 1 through June 30, 2018, filed under Paragraph 33 of the Lima Consent Decree (Case 3:14-CV-02551-JZ). Lima reports it met the one deadline due this period (Revised SEP Completion Report submitted 1/30/18), describes progress on five active projects including the Headworks Project, CMOM Plan, Segmented Block Rehabilitation, SEP, and Simmon's Field CSO EQ Basin, and notes no NPDES permit exceedances. SSO and CSO overflow totals for the period are attached (127 SSO and 11 CSO overflow reports), and one SSO 5-Day Follow-up Report was submitted to OEPA for a force main break near the Cable Road Lift Station.
note
Report received by Ohio EPA N.W.D.O. on July 30, 2018. Signed by Michael H. Cappa, Director of Utilities, City of Lima, Ohio. Attachment includes SSO & CSO Overflow Totals (January 1 – June 30, 2018) and Gantt chart for Simmon's Field CSO EQ Basin project (Peterson Construction Company). OCR reads case number as 3:14-CV-02553-JZ in one location and 3:14-CV-02551-JZ in the header reference; image shows 3:14-CV-02551-JZ.
projects
- name Lima Wastewater Treatment Headworks Project
- status Commenced construction on 7/1/15. Building and tank construction is complete.
- next_period Continued development of implementation strategy for seeding nitrification towers during dry weather to develop biomass suitable for wet weather treatment; continued development of implementation strategy for employing primary tank 5-7, effluent pumping, and towers to treat wet weather flows; continued development of PLC programming for seeding the nitrification tower and for control of wet weather treatment system; continued development of dry weather seeding strategy for towers and collection of data.
- name CMOM Plan Development
- status Lima submitted the revised plan to USEPA on 5/26/17. Lima received a request from USEPA on 3/20/18 to make a revision to the plan and resubmit for approval.
- next_period Lima will be submitting the plan with the requested revision to USEPA in conjunction with this Consent Decree report on 7/31/18.
- name Asset Management — Phase I Segmented Block Rehabilitation
- status Project was bid in January 2018. Benchmark Construction was awarded the contract on 2/14/18 for $3,250,828. Lima received the PTI from OEPA on 2/20/18. Project start has been delayed due to the need to relocate a natural gas line.
- next_period Commencement of construction and completion of the project.
- name Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP)
- status Project is complete. Lima submitted a Revised SEP Completion Report on 1/31/18. Lima received USEPA approval of the revised plan on 6/12/18. Lima is required to maintain the plantings in good condition through the life of the Consent Decree.
- next_period Conduct a controlled burn to control the growth of invasive species of grass and weeds.
- name Simmon's Field CSO EQ Basin
- status City is under contract with Stantec for engineering and construction. Project was re-bid on 1/31/18 and 2/7/18. Bids opened on 2/22/18. PTI issued on 2/27/18. Project awarded to Peterson Construction; official groundbreaking occurred on 5/4/18. Excavation activities to date include removal of approximately 15 feet of soil within the footprint of the storage basin and installation of fencing and shoring.
- next_period Continued excavation of soil down to bedrock, then blasting and excavating rock down to maximum tank depth; inspection of three underground control structures and replacement as necessary of gates, gate stems, motors and operators; excavation for construction of the diversion structure. See attached Gantt chart for more detailed activities.
agency_contacts
- January 30, 2018 --- Lima submitted a revised SEP Plan to USEPA.
- February 20, 2018 --- Lima received PTI from OEPA for construction of a 10-inch sanitary sewer as part of the Segmented Block Sewer Rehabilitation Project.
- March 20, 2018 --- Lima received a request from USEPA on 3/20/18 to make revisions to the CMOM and CSO Operations plans and resubmit for approval.
- February 27, 2018 --- Lima received PTI from OEPA for construction of the CSO EQ Basin.
- March 22, 2018 --- Lima received notification from OEPA that the proposed new NPDES permit was posted for a 30-day public comment period.
- June 12, 2018 --- Lima received approval of the Revised SEP plan from USEPA, with conditions to maintain the plantings in good condition through the term of the Consent Decree.
- June 14, 2018 --- Lima submitted a SSO 5-Day Follow-up Report to OEPA concerning a force main break near the Cable Road Lift Station.
- June 22, 2018 --- Lima met with OEPA officials in Columbus to discuss unresolved issues with the proposed NPDES permit.
discharge_events
- kind Water-in-Basement (WIB)
- location Sanitary mainline (surcharged after rainfall event of 0.75")
- date 2018-01-01/2018-06-30
- frequency 1 occurrence during reporting period
- duration —
- volume —
- estimated —
- note Lima completed 1 WIB project in this reporting period. City continues to work with homeowners through WIB Program.
- kind SSO/CSO
- location Multiple locations — see attached Overflow Totals Report (SSO & CSO Monthly Reporting)
- date 2018-01-01/2018-06-30
- frequency 127 SSO overflows, 11 CSO overflows (Total 138 overflow reports; 24 total reports)
- duration —
- volume —
- estimated —
- note Numbers reported monthly to OEPA as part of monthly Discharge Monitoring Report. See attached Overflow Totals Report.
- kind SSO
- location Force main break near Cable Road Lift Station
- date 2018-06-14
- frequency —
- duration —
- volume —
- estimated —
- note Lima submitted a SSO 5-Day Follow-up Report to OEPA. Caused by structural/mechanical failure; 24-hour emergency response crew dispatched.
⚠ Gaps in the record
- CLAUSE (f) IS AGGREGATED HERE, NOT ENUMERATED — 3 discharge_events for a period this report totals as 127 SSO overflows and 11 CSO overflows. 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 renders case number inconsistently (3:14-CV-02553-JZ vs. 3:14-CV-02551-JZ); image header clearly shows 3:14-CV-02551-JZ, which is used.
- Overflow Totals table OCR is heavily degraded; individual event volumes and durations are not legible from OCR — only aggregate counts (127 SSO, 11 CSO) are recorded.
- Gantt chart pages are largely unreadable from OCR; no structured project schedule data extracted.
Where it connects
oepa/lima/edoc-2710557.progress-report.yaml · p.1 · oepa