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RESOLUTION NO. 3035
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO RELATING TO THE SLUDGE
MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR THE LOS ANGELES /ORANGE
COUNTY METROPOLITAN AREA PROJECT FOR THE
HYPERION TREATMENT PLANT.
WHEREAS, the Hyperion Treatment Plant lies adjacent
to the City of El Segundo; and
WHEREAS, the United States Environmental Protection
Agency and the State Water Resources Control Board asserts that
federal and state laws require that the City of Los Angeles completely
cease the disposal of sludge in the Pacific Ocean from the Hyperion
Treatment Plant by a date certain although there has not been
a final determination as to whether or not such action is mandated
by law; and
WHEREAS, the consent decree entered in United States
v. City of Los Angeles, No. CV 77- 3047 -HP (United States District
Court, Central District of California) the City of Los Angeles
consented to a strict time table for elimination of ocean disposal
of sludge from the Hyperion Treatment Plant and implementation
of a project for land based disposal of sludge in return for
federal funding of the project and the Sepulveda Water Reclamation
Plan; and
WHEREAS, the project selected for the Hyperion Treatment
Plant by the Environmental Protection Agency and referred to
in the consent decree is an experimental process involving thermal
processing of dewatered sludge and trucking of ash to a sanitary
landfill; and
WHEREAS, the Hyperion Treatment Plant project is estimated
to cost $22 :3,831,000.00 in 1978 dollars, operation and maintenance
costs are estimated to exceed $12,098,000.00 in 1978 dollars; and
WHEREAS, the final EIS /EIR project demonstrate that
there will be an increase in certain air pollutants, visual conflicts,
increased traffic, odors and noise as a result of the project; and
. WHEREAS, the Final EIS /EIR does not demonstrate a
factual basis for environmental justification of the project
in that recent studies by experts including scientists associated
with Scripps Institute of Oceanography and California Institute
of Technology and Southern California Coastal Water Research
Project indicate that ocean disposal of sludge is not necessarily
• detrimental, and may indeed be beneficial to the marine environ-
ment; and
WHEREAS, it appears that the project selected by the
United States Environmental Protection Agency is not environ-
mentally justified in that it will cause adverse impacts to and
decrease the quality of the human environment; and
WHEREAS, it appears the project selected by the United
States Environmental Protection Agency is not environmentally
justified in that it has not been shown that the ocean disposal
of Sludge of Hyperion Treatment Plant adversly impacts the marine
environment; and
WHEREAS, it appears that the project selected by the
Environmental Protection Agency for the Hyperion Treatment Plant
is not financially justified in that no demonstrable benfit to
the environment will result from the expenditure of $235,929,000.00;
and
WHEREAS, it appears that the United States Environmental
Protection Agency deprived the public of a meaningful opportunity
to participate in the selection of the Hyperion Treatment Plant
project in that the consent decree between the United States
Environmental Protection Agency, the State Water Resources Control
Board, and the City of Los Angeles requires termination of ocean
disposal of sludge and implementation of the project within a
strict time table; and
WHEREAS, It appears that if federal and state laws
prohibit all ocean disposal of sludge such laws are unreasonable
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• and not environmentally justified;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL
SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
1. To request that Congress and the State Legislature
investigate and determine whether the termination of the disposal
of sludge in the Pacific Ocean is environmentally and economically
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2. To request that the President of the United States
and the Govenor of the State of California withhold all funding
for the project for the Hyperion Treatment Plant until such
investigations have been completed and determination made.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 2nd day of
DECEMBER ► 1980.
ATTEST:
(SEAL)
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City Clerk
W, D. Bue, May Dr pro Tempore
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R,. K, Van Vranken, Mayor of the
City of El Segundo, California.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I, VALERIE A. BURROWES City Clerk of the
City of El Segundo, California, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the
whole number of members of the City Council of the said City is
five, that the foregoing resolution, being Resolution No. 3035
was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved
and signed by the Mayor of said City, and attested by the City
Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of the said Council:
held on the 2nd day of December '19 s0 ,
and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Armstrong,, Bue, Johnson,
Siadek, and Mayor Van Vranken
NOES: Councilmen None
ABSENT: Councilmen None
WITNESS MY HAND AND THE OFFICIAL SEAL OF SAID
CITY this 9th day of December 19 80
(SEAL)
City Clerk of the City of El Segundo,
California