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City reports early progress after taking governance of East Palo Alto Sanitary District
Summary
Fifteen days after taking over the East Palo Alto Sanitary District, city staff contracted West Bay Sanitary for field operations, tightened response times and engaged Fisher Compliance to update emergency and operations plans.
City Manager Melvin Gaines updated the council on the city's first two weeks supervising the East Palo Alto Sanitary District (EPASD), describing operational steps the city has taken since the Oct. 1 transition. Gaines said the city contracted West Bay Sanitary District to perform day-to-day field operations and improve maintenance cadence, moving from a previously reported two-hour response standard to an approximately 45-minute target under West Bay protocols.
Gaines also said the city will perform more frequent FOG (fats, oils and grease) inspections of restaurants (shifting from biannual to quarterly reviews in some cases), that it has contracted Fisher Compliance to draft a sewer operations and emergency response plan, and that staff will prepare an updated master plan and assess connection fees and surcharges. Council members urged timely public outreach, and the city said it will mail notices to all EPASD customers and seek advisory committee applicants in coming weeks.
