Fiscal Note
The resolution authorizes the Mayor and City Clerk to enter into an Agreement with the University of Wisconsin, Board of Regents to allow Madison Water Utility to discharge wastewater to the University sanitary sewer system. This agreement will be funded out of the Water Utility General Operating Budget and based on the current City of Madison sewer rates. Maximum cost per year, based on 2022 sewer rates and a maximum daily volume of 28,000 gallons, will be $47,277.70. No additional appropriation is required.
Title
Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to enter into an agreement with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to allow sanitary sewer discharge from the treatment facility at Well 19.
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Madison Water Utility (the “Utility”) owns and operates a public drinking water well, booster pump and storage facility (Well 19) on lands owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison (the “University”) at 2526 Lake Mendota Drive (the “Property”). Well 19 provides safe drinking water to the public, including the UW Hospital complex, most of the University complex and the Village of Shorewood Hills; and,
WHEREAS, in 2023 the Utility will be installing an iron, manganese and radium treatment system (the “Treatment System”) at Well-19 to reduce the levels of these naturally occurring contaminants in the drinking water, thereby improving the water quality of the drinking water produced and stored at the facility (the “Project”); and,
WHEREAS, the Treatment System will produce discharge that needs to be disposed of in a sanitary sewer system. The City’s nearest sanitary sewer main is approximately one mile away, however the University’s sanitary sewer system, serving the nearby Eagle Heights student housing complex, is adjacent to the Property in Lake Mendota Drive. In addition, Well 19 is already connected with the University’s sewer, for relatively small amounts of daily flow to enter the system at that connection; and,
WHEREAS, it...
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