Item 9A~,.
AGENDA ITEM #9A
APRIL 10, 2006
Apri14, 2006
MEMORANDUM
TO: The Honorable Mayor
and Members of the Commission
FROM:
City Manager
SUBJECT: City Manage f s Report
~" Alleged Violations of Wastewater Treatment Standards at City of Atlantic Beach Plants; A
recent article appeared in a local newspaper entitled "Troubled Waters" which listed violations
of state and federal standazds at azea wastewater plants. The story listed both Atlantic Beach
'""" plants as having violations in 2004. The point of the article was that local wastewater plants
were contributing to the problem of pollution in the St. Johns River.
`' The City of Atlantic Beach did not have any violations of wastewater standards in 2004.
The following was submitted by Donna Kaluzniak after checking into what violations were
referenced:
"Per their report; WWTPI-Chlorine violation, reporting month September 2004, 4,900% over
limit. We checked and double checked every day's results for that month and could not fmd
`"~ any violation of the chlorine limit. Harry McNally has contacted the DEP's Data Entry
Supervisor in Tallahassee, and this is most likely an error when DEP was keying the data for
EPA.
WWTP2-Total Recoverable Mercury Violation, reporting month November 2004, 420% over
limit. We checked the lab report and found the result was below detection limits. The lab
reports this as the minimum detection limit with a "U" behind it, meaning undetected. When
we filled out the monthly report, we entered the minimum detection limit, but forgot to put
the < (less than sign) in front of the number. Since the minimum detection limit is more than
the permitted limit, it appeazed we had a violation. We are sending DEP an amended report."