Item A: City of Coburg Request for Connection to Regional Wastewater Facilities

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and financial resources to implement city code provisions and to provide monitoring and reporting activities, as well as system performance and compliance assurance. At a minimum, Coburg ordinances and programs would need to be established to: ? Protect the MWMC system from inappropriate discharges; ? Establish standards for design and operation of the local collection system in compliance with MWMC-approved standards; ? Define and authorize lawful extension of sewer services within Coburg’s city limits and to prohibit extraterritorial sewer extensions/connections; ? Assure Coburg compliance with NPDES permit and MWMC requirements, including all provisions necessary to implement and enforce an Industrial Pretreatment Program and Pollution Management Practices consistent with the MWMC model ordinance; ? Establish and fund programs that will provide for operation, maintenance and rehabilitation of the collection system over time to achieve established system condition and performance standards; ? Ensure accurate flow metering, characterization, monitoring, and timely reporting; ? Provide for sewer user customer services, billing and collection; ? Ensure timely collection and remittance of monthly user fees and connection charges; and ? Provide enforcement and fining authorities, associated inspection and enforcement programs consistent with Eugene and Springfield. If wastewater services are extended to Coburg, the Eugene-Springfield staff would need to plan and budget to provide technical assistance and legal review in coordination with Coburg staff, legal counsel and the city council. Staff support and processing of MWMC review and approval of the relevant aspects of Coburg’s program would also need to be considered. However, insufficient information is available at this time to estimate the scope, timing and costs of addressing these activities. A placeholder work task and time line is included in Attachment A to recognize that this work would need to be undertaken. CONCLUSIONS AND NEXT STEPS This report identifies many of the issues that would need further consideration and follow-up work if the elected officials direct staff to implement a path intended to extend wastewater services to Coburg. Taken together, the tasks and decision-making process are likely to take up to four years (assuming that staff can be freed up from other work to manage the project expeditiously), and may cost as much as $650,000 to 1,000,000 or more in consulting, legal, and agency staff costs. Attachment A provides ball park estimates of the staff, consultant, and legal hours and associated costs, and depicts a range of $520,000 to $795,000. The cost estimates do not include costs other than labor costs, which could be expected to include copying, printing, and other materials and supplies. The costs and time lines also do not estimate any time or labor that would be added in the event one or more of the land use planning decisions were to be appealed to the Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA). Any appeals could be expected to add significant costs and time to the process. The next steps regional staff would anticipate taking in response to an affirmative direction to proceed would include the following: Page 19