Report - Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

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Cease and Board Year Desist Orders Orders Legal Actions 2005 152 2 0 2006 149 1 0 2007 132 1 0 2008 126 1 0 2009 88 1 0 2010 84 3 0 The Enforcement Section also prepares the District's list of significant violators of applicable pretreatment regulations, which is required to be published annually in a newspaper that provides meaningful public notice within the jurisdiction of the District. The trend for the period from 2005 through 2010 is depicted in the following table. Total Number Publication Effluent Reporting Other of Industrial yearl Limitations Requirements R· eqUlrements 2 Users Published 2005 21 55 0 72 2006 11 54 0 61 2007 12 44 0 51 2008 13 25 2 36 2009 6 23 5 30 2010 3 10 31 1 33 1 For prior year's actions. 2 Other violations included dilution, failure to provide access for inspection purposes, failure to install adequate sampling facilities, failure to provide adequate spill containment, failure to install and maintain adequate pretreatment facilities. 3 Data is projected. Publication will be completed by 3 rd quarter of2011. User Charge and Technical Services Section The User Charge and Technical Services Section administers the District's federallyapproved User Charge system as authorized under the UCO. In 2010, the Section manually reviewed 2,215 reports, including delinquent filings, for 1,980 users (779 commercial-industrial and 1,201 tax-exempt users) containing calculations of 48
their User Charge liabilities under the UCO and documentation corroborating their data. The Section utilized an automated clearing process for 1,630 tax-exempt users approved to file under Section 7f of the UCO, which required no report submittal from the user or manual review by the District. The Section classified 86 new Large Commercial-Industrial and Tax-Exempt Users and 77 Small Nonresidential Commercial-Industrial Users in 2010. The Section requests verification sampling of certain facilities by the Field Services Section, and determines the acceptability of the user's proposed sampling methodology. In 2010, the Section reviewed 702 District inspections and sampling reports from the Field Services Section; 88 technical proposals submitted by Users for sampling, flow monitoring and/or equipment installations; sealed 78 privately owned water meters used for reporting volume deductions or discharge volumes; and conducted 130 field inspections to verify user data and/or compliance with the UCO. In order to ensure the quality of flow data obtained by the Field Services Section, User Charge and Technical Services Section engineers perform quality control inspections of all flow meter monitoring installations. During 2010, the User Charge and Technical Services Section conducted 315 evaluations of flow meter installations at commercial and industrial facilities. As of the end of2010, the Section had also identified 789 Users who were eligible for reduced reporting and self-monitoring requirements under Sections 7 g, 7h, and 7i of the UCO. Granting reduced reporting requirements reduces the cost to industrial users for determining their fair share of User Charges and reduces the District's oversight costs related to these industrial users. The costs for the administration of the SWCO and UCO are recovered from industrial users, through Minimum Pretreatment Requirements (MPR) charges, Noncompliance Enforcement (NCE) charges and User Charge Verification (UCV) charges. The recovery of MPR and UCV charges is administered through the UCO and the recovery of NCE charges is administered through the SWCO. The following table shows the User Charge revenue, as reported by the District's Finance Department, collected over the period from 2005 through 2010. Year User Charge Receipts 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 $44,571,653 $53,616,772 $50,828,451 $54,442,493 $48,253,267 $48,666,789 49
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