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City of Missoula, Montana Item to be Referred to City Council Committee Committee: Public Works Committee Item: Memorandum of Understanding Between City and County for the Proposed Extension of Sanitary Sewer to the Spring Meadows Addition Date: March 18, 2010 Prepared by: Steve King, Public Works Director Initiated by: Missoula County Action Required: Memorandum of Understanding proposing to extend municipal sanitary sewer service via a Missoula County Rural Special Improvement District (RSID) to 62 existing homes in the Spring Meadows Addition of the Wye Area of Missoula. Recommended Motion: The committee recommends the City Council approve and authorize the Mayor to sign the Spring Meadows Addition Municipal Sanitary Sewer Service Memorandum of Understanding between the City and County of Missoula. Timeline: Committee discussion: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 Council action: Monday, March 5, 2010 Background and Alternatives Explored: 1. The Spring Meadows Addition is part of the Wye Area of Missoula. The subdivision is within the City’s Wastewater Facility Service Area boundary. It consists of 67 lots, 62 of which have individual drain fields for sewage disposal. 2. Ongoing water quality monitoring by the Department of Environmental Quality has identified the drain fields in the Spring Meadows Addition as one of the most likely sources of ground water pollution contributing to a water quality violation in the Wye Area. The significance of the violation has generated the creation of a Special Management Area in the City-County Health Code that includes the subdivision. 3. The County has indicated a willingness to pursue grant funding and creation of an RSID for the Spring Meadows Addition to extend the municipal sanitary sewer to serve the subdivision. Once the funding mechanisms are in place, final designs and construction will be possible. 4. Once constructed, inspected and approved by the City Public Works Department, the mains will be accepted and become part of the ongoing sanitary sewer maintenance responsibilities of the City’s wastewater facility. 5. The Memorandum of Understanding is the first step in moving forward with County grant applications. Once grants are earmarked, the next step will be entering into a City-County interlocal agreement for the project. The third step will be creation of the RSID and finally, construction of the project. 6. Staff is supportive of this project as it relates to the City’s goals to reduce nutrient discharge to ground water and further efforts to protect the City’s Sole Source Aquifer from future contamination. Attachments: Vicinity Map of Spring Meadows Addition DRAFT Memorandum of Understanding