CC Resolution No. 565 840
RESOLUTION NO. 565
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS, ADOPTING A FACILITY PLAN AND AN ENVIRONMENTAL
ASSESSMENT FOR A WEST SEWER DISTRICT PLANT FOR THE CITY
OF BAYTOWN.
WHEREAS, it is necessary for the City of Baytown to add
sewer plant capacity to its West District in order to adequately
serve the waste disposal needs of its citizens; and
WHEREAS, the City applied to the Texas Water quality
Board and the Environmental Protection Agency for a federal
grant pursuant to the Water Pollution Control Act to build
additional sewer works ; and
WHEREAS , the City has initiated study of and established
a timetable for construction of sewer works in the West
Sewer District pursuant to EPA Grant No. C-48-1151-01-1
(formerly No. WPC-Tex-1151) ; and
WHEREAS, Langford Engineering, Inc . has gathered data
and presented the City with various alternatives to meet the
City' s waste disposal needs; and
WHEREAS, at a public hearing on the proposed construction
of sewage treatment facilities and rehabilitation of sewers
in the West Sewer District held on January 27 , 1977 , the
city received significant public response favoring adoption
of that facility alternative that involved construction of
new sewer works at the Interstate Highway 10/Spring Gully
site with transportation of the effluent to the San Jacinto
River for discharge ; and
WHEREAS , the engineering studies , data, alternatives ,
and public input presented to the City have been compiled
into two documents, entitled "Facility Plan" and "Environ-
mental Assessment" ; and
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WHEREAS , on the basis of the engineering studies and
the public input at the hearing on the proposed sewage
works, the best practicable waste treatment technology over
the expected life of the works , consistent with the objectives
of the Water Pollution Control Act , requires construction of
a new treatment plant described in Appendix B of the "Facility
Plan" , with transportation of the effluent to the San Jacinto
River for discharge; NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAYTOWN:
Section 1 : That the City Council accepts and adopts
both the "Facility Plan" and the "Environmental Assessment" ,
and certifies as true all the facts and data presented
therein.
Section 2 : That the City Council proposes that the
construction of a new sewage treatment plant at the Inter-
state Highway 10/Spring Gully site with transportation of the
effluent to the San Jacinto River for discharge is most cost
effective and in the best public interest of the citizens of
Baytown .
Section 3 : That the City Council assures the Texas
Water Quality Board and the Environmental Protection Agency
that it will use and comply with the "Facility Plan" and
"Environmental Assessment" .
Section 4 : That this resolution shall become effective
immediately from and after its passage by the City Council .
INTRODUCED, READ, and PASSED by the affirmative vote of
the City Council on this 24 day of February
1977 .
ATTEST: TOM GENTRY, Mayo
E EEN P. HALL, City Clerk
APPROVED:
NEEL R HARDSON, City Attorney"-
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