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RWQC reviews RWSP charter and 2025 work plan; charter frames collaboration with MUPAC and WTD
Summary
Committee received a briefing on a newly co‑created charter that defines roles, responsibilities, information flow and a timeline for the Regional Wastewater Services Plan update, and reviewed a draft 2025 work plan that schedules regular RWSP briefings, capital program updates and site visits.
The Regional Water Quality Committee heard an overview Jan. 16 of a newly drafted charter intended to guide collaboration among the Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD), the Metropolitan Pollution Abatement Advisory Committee (MUPAC) and RWQC during the Regional Wastewater Services Plan update.
Darren Grevey, a WTD lead on the project, told the committee the charter is “not WTD’s. It was co‑created by members and leadership of MUPAC, WTD, and staff of RWQC members and SCA staff. It is our collective document.” The charter is a hybrid team/project document that sets shared goals, values and a high‑level roadmap to carry the RWSP update forward.
Ben Morey and Carly Jourter, working‑group members, said the charter clarifies roles and responsibilities, establishes feedback loops for MUPAC and RWQC, and lays out milestones intended to keep the project on schedule. The working group envisions a small, rotating membership (fewer than 10) to maintain nimbleness and subject‑matter expertise over the multi‑year effort.
The charter identifies two policy areas: (1) capital investment topics — treatment, asset management, conveyance (separated system and infiltration/inflow), combined system management (CSO/CS), climate resilience, pollution control, resource recovery and odor control — and (2) non‑capital topics such as affordability, equity, finance, contractual relationships and reporting. The charter describes three approaches (stay the course, strategic enhancement, transformative) to be analyzed across the capital categories over a 30‑year horizon.
The committee also reviewed a draft 2025 work plan that schedules recurring RWSP items at each meeting, a series of capital program briefings, rate and budget briefings tied to the WTD sewer‑rate process, and tentative site visits (Georgetown wet weather treatment station in March; West Point projects in late spring/early summer; a biosolids/forest tour in the summer). Staff emphasized the work plan is a living draft and asked members to flag additions or schedule conflicts.
Committee members asked staff to consider calendar timing for transmittal and Council action in 2029 to avoid compressing transmittal and adoption into the same month. Members also asked to add a short briefing explaining the historical Robinswood agreement and its policy implications.
No committee action was taken on the charter at the Jan. 16 meeting; staff said the charter will go to MUPAC Jan. 22 and return to RWQC for further review at the Feb. 5 meeting and possibly March if additional time is needed.
