HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Resolution 2001 RESOLUTION NO. 200 1
WHEREAS, the citizens of the cities of San Jose, Santa Clara,
~ilpi~s, Campbell, Los Gatos, ~.bnte Sereno, Saratoga and Cupertino are
served by one of the most sophisticated sewage treatment plmlts in the
United States, the San Jose-Santa Clara Pollution Plant; and
WHt~F~AS, the plant each sunn~r experiences peak flows due to
increased residential and business water usage; and
WHEP~!AS, the plant must stay within safe capacity to avoid a
biological upset of partially treated sewage spilling into the Bay and
industrial curtailment; and
~EREAS, the plant, for the first time in three years, survived
a hot sumner in 1981 ~ithout a spill into the Bay; and
~~, the citizens of the eight Valley cc~t,r~nities served by
the treatn~nt plsnt are credited with helping in last year 's major environ-
mental success by reduction of indoor water usage; and
WHEREAS reduction of residential indoor water use is a primary
,
means of slowing flows to the plant; and
WHEP~AS, The San Jose-Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant
has launched a second' "SD$~ THE FLOW" public awareness canR~aign to ask
residents in Santa Clara Valley to cut down on flows to the sewage plant by
conserving on water use in the home; ~6w, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED, that this Council does hereby endorse and support
the s~nm~_r water conservation effort, and further does hereby
RESOLVE that the months of August and September, 1982 be known
as "SLOW I~{E FLf~ MCNTHS" in the Santa Clara Valley.
The above and foregoing resolution was passed and adopted at a regular meeting
of the Saratoga C. ity Council on the 21st day of July, 1982 , by
unanimous vote:
MAYOR ""X,
ATIEST:
City Clerk