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Introduction, Purpose and Need 1.1 Introduction This Facilities Plan, prepared for the Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission (lvIWMC), is the result of a comprehensive evaluation of the regional wastewater treatment facilities serving the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area. Regional wastewater facilities include the Eugene-Springfield Water Pollution Control Facility (WPCF), major pump stations and interceptors, the Biosolids Management Facility (BMF), the Biocycle Farm, and the Seasonal Industrial Waste Facility (SIWF). TI-ds Facilities Plan is a comprehensive update to the original "208 Plan," which was completed in 1977. The 208 Plan established the original projections, requirements, and projects needed to serve the Eugene-Springfield commurfity through 2005. The newly developed MWMC Facffities Plan is intended to identity facility enhancements and expansions that are needed to serve the community's wastewater needs through 2025. Current capacity cor~straints, new regulatory requ/rements and anticipated changes to these requirements, future capacity and performance requirements, new treatment technologies available to cost-effectively improve the capacity and performance of exist~g assets, and existing WPCF operational issues all provide the basis for evaluating and plan_v~g for the future of the regional wastewater ~eatment facilities. This evaluation reviews all of these areas and the resulting plan accounts for the most probable outcomes L~ the years ahead. The Facilities Plan builds on interim plmming efforts that were conducted from 1996 ffrrough 2001 to address specifically identified performance, capacity, and opera~onal deficiencies. For example, the models and analyses developed for the Wet Weather Flow Management Plan (CH2M HILL, 2001) and the Biosolids Management Plan (C/-I2M HILL, 1997) were leveraged fit order to develop solutions to both dry and wet weather treatment ~ssues. Also, those solutions are intended to provide for planned commun/ty growth that meets current regulations and anticipates f~ture environmental regulatory requirements. The selected alternatives should meet both short-term and long-term objectives and provide facilities that are acceptable to the public. This Facilities Plan provides solutions that address the full range of dry and wet weather liquids treatment and biosoIids issues, and operational health and safety concerns. The Plan also provides detailed descriptions and plans for recommer~ded project implementation. It is a comprehensive strategic road map for implementing the most cost-effective solutions to address a full range of regional wastewater needs over the next 20 years. 1.2 Intergovernmental Agreements MWMC is an/ntergovemmental entity that was created in 1977 by an ~tergovernmental agreement among Eugene, Springfield, and Lane County. MWMC owns and operates the Eugene-Sprirrgfield regional wastewater facili~es. In accordance with art intergovernmental agreement (IGA), the MWMC contracts with Eugene to operate and maintain these facilities, and with Springfield to provide administration services to the Commission. The MWMC is MWMC_I O_REV13 DOC ~-t