Program Delivery Plan

SECTION 1
Overview
1.1 Background
The purpose of the Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) Control and Wastewater Facilities
Program is to reduce sanitary sewer overflows while also planning for the future. The City
of Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish (C-P) entered into a Consent Decree (Civil Action
01-978-B-M3) with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the State
of Louisiana to take remedial actions in the collection system to reduce SSOs, and also to
meet National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit requirements at the
wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) by January 1, 2015. The Consent Decree details
requirements for several components, including the following:
Cross Connections
Preventive Maintenance (Collection System and WWTPs)
SSO Responses and Reporting
Remedial Measures Action Plan 1 (RMAP1)
Remedial Measures Action Plan 2 (RMAP2)
Wastewater Treatment Facility Assessment
Environmental Results Monitoring
Outreach and Public Awareness (O&PA) Quarterly and Annual Reporting
Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs)
Recordkeeping
This document constitutes the RMAP2. Other portions of the Consent Decree are addressed
in other documents. This document is the third annual update of the Program Delivery Plan
(PDP) that was initially published in January 2008.
1.2 Major Program Goals
The major goals of the program are to:
Reduce excess wet weather flows that cause SSOs
Rehabilitate the collection system
Increase the hydraulic capacity of the collection system
Accommodate growth in project areas
Comply with wastewater treatment plant National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (NPDES) permit
Comply with the terms of the Consent Decree
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