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Council approves participation in Eastern San Joaquin Basin nitrate-control coalition; staff explains state mandate
Summary
Council approved a voluntary contribution agreement (not to exceed $10,000 annually) to join a nitrate-control coalition (CV Salts pathway B sampling) after staff explained the state requires basin-priority basins to choose treatment or coalition sampling.
Riverbank's council approved participation in the Eastern San Joaquin Basin nitrate-control program and a voluntary contribution agreement (not to exceed $10,000 annually) to join the coalition and satisfy state sampling requirements.
During consent-calendar discussion, a council member asked why the city must pay for additional testing and what it entails. A staff water-wastewater presenter explained the state's regulatory approach: because Riverbank discharges into the Eastern San Joaquin Basin and the city's wastewater treatment plant cannot currently meet the higher treatment standard, the city must follow Pathway B by joining a coalition (the transcript references "CV Salts") to perform additional studies and sampling so the state can better understand aquifer degradation.
"Being that the city does not have the ability to treat to that pathway A portion right now with our existing treatment plant, we are required to go into the pathway B, which means joining this group or coalition, and you perform studies and additional sampling on your water," the presenter said. The council approved the item on a 4-0 roll call as part of the consent calendar.
Staff said the city's current contractor would perform required sampling and that the agreement is a state-mandated compliance pathway; the $10,000 figure was presented as the contract amount included in the staff report.
