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RESOLUTION NO. 5083 <br /> <br />A RESOLUTION DECLARING AN E}v~R~ENCY, AU~ORIZING T~ <br />DIATE PLACIi'fG OF Ai~? ORDER TO PURC!TASE Ok~ SE?rAGE PU~P, <br />SLUDGE PU~IP A~{D THE~ L~%SING OF I~-N~D FOR THE SIN~,~[ING OF EF- <br />FLLrENT <br /> <br /> ?,~EREAS, there now exists in the County of Orange, an emergent <br /> condition resulting from the overloading of the sewage lines, the <br /> poor and inadequate condition of the ocean outfall and the consist- <br /> ently increased flow of sewage; and <br /> <br /> ~%-r~REAS, the City of Santa Ann is the contracting City under <br /> certain joint Agreements for the various Cities and Sanitation Dis- <br /> tricts, which signed those certain Agreements for the operation of <br /> the sewerage system known as Orange County Joint 0utfall Sewer; and <br /> <br /> I~,UfIEREAS, the City Council of the City of Santa aha has been <br /> informed that it will be necessary to handle sewage disposal under <br /> said joint Agreements through 1952 and 1953 because of the delays <br /> <br />heretofore and now existing and continuing and the lack of progress <br /> the <br />on the part of the Sanitation Districts of Orange County in/reaching <br /> <br />of agreements and the construction of new and more adecuate facilities; <br />and <br /> <br /> YfhI~qEAS, by a report from C. G. Gillespie, Consulting Engineer, <br />dated September 6, 1951 shows that the "average monthly summer flow <br />is now 13.2 million gallons daily'and that it has been found that <br />the Joi~t 0utfall Sewer disposal system is st its limit at this <br />figure; that the population of the County is consistently increasing <br />and that there is a steadily growing industrial plant causing a fur- <br />tner upsurge in sewage flow, so that in two years from the date of the <br />report, the average sum~mer flow is expected to run at least 17.0 mil- <br />lion gallons daily with the peaks above 22.0 million gallons daily; and <br /> <br /> ~EAS, the head of water through the ocean outfall has now <br />reached a point where at high tide, with two booster pumps in use, the <br />sewage rises to within an inch or two below the overflow level at the <br />beach and said Engineer's report states that the "flow reaching the <br /> <br /> <br />