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MEMORANDUM
TO:
FROM:
DATE:
SUBJECT:
REVIEWED:
Project Manager:
HONORABLE MAYOR & CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
MICHAEL THRONE, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS i{{j
MAY 20, 2014
APPROVE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF A COORDINATED
COMPLIANCE MONITORING AND REPORTING PLAN
FOR GREATER LOS ANGELES HARBOR TOXICS
TMDL
CAROLYNN PETRU, ACTING CITY MANAGE~
Andy Winje, Associate Engineer~
RECOMMENDATION
Authorize the Mayor to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the
City and the Los Angeles Gateway Region Integrated Regional Water Management
Joint Powers Authority (Gateway Authority) for administration and cost sharing for the
preparation and implementation of a coordinated compliance monitoring and reporting
plan as required by the Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles Region, for
the Dominguez Channel and Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors Waters Toxic
Pollutants Total Maximum Daily Loads.
BACKGROUND
On May 5, 2011, the California Regional Water Quality Control Board adopted a Total
Maximum Daily Load {TMDL) for the Dominguez Channel and Los Angeles and Long
Beach Harbors for metals and toxic pollutants. The City of Rancho Palos Verdes is
identified in the TMDL as a responsible party because drainage from the City is tributary
to the Harbor. This TMDL requires the development and subsequent implementation of
a water quality monitoring plan. The cities and agencies tributary to the Los Angeles
and Long Beach Harbors (Greater Harbor) have worked together with the Gateway
Authority to develop this Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to share the cost of
developing and implementing the plan. This agreement allows for joint monitoring of
several locations within the harbor areas, which results in a cost savings to all
participants.
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DISCUSSION
This TMDL became effective upon approval by the US EPA, which occurred on March
23, 2012. Subsequently, this TMDL has been incorporated into the 2012 Municipal
Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) Permit, to which the City is party, and is
enforceable through the federal Clean Water Act. A summary of the technical work
being done as part of the MOU has been prepared and is attached to this staff report.
The preparation and implementation of the coordinated compliance monitoring and
reporting plan will be a multi-agency effort. Participating agencies are assessed costs
based on the cost sharing formulas, as detailed in the attached Memoranda of
Understanding (MOU). Essentially the cost sharing plan consists of a flat fee to
participate (30% of cost) and sliding scale fee based on land area (70% of cost). The
overall c()st to the participants for the 5:.year program will be $2.2 million. The actual
cost of sample collection and analysis varies from year to year, but at the request of the
responsible parties, the costs have been averaged over a five year period. The City's
annual costs will be $22,614 and the total 5-year cost to the City will be $113,071. Staff
and the City's storm water quality consultant were involved in the negotiations and
believes this is a reasonable distribution of costs.
The Gateway Authority has agreed to act as the fiduciary agent for the TMDL
monitoring project. The Gateway Authority has experience with similar projects such as
the Lower Los Angeles and Lower San Gabriel River and Los Cerritos Channel
Watershed Management Programs. The Memorandum of Understanding between the
agencies and the GWMA is attached.
Key Elements of the MOU are listed below:
• Obligates agencies to pay an annual fee.
• A city or agency can withdraw from the agreement upon 30 day notice. Remaining
participating parties would be responsible for making up the addition costs;
• Requires that a representative from each participating agency be named and
authorized to speak on decisions made by the group;
• Establishes the GWMA as the entity to contract with consultants chosen by the
watershed group and process payments for consultants;
• Outlines a process for annual budget adoption;
• Outlines a process for invoicing and payments by participating agencies;
ALTERNATIVES
The City can appeal to the Regional Board that it has been inappropriately classified as
discharging to the Greater Harbor. If the City can persuade the Regional Board, and if
the Regional Board approves changes to its Basin Plan, the City would then not be
subject to this monitoring requirement. Pursuit of this alternative would be lengthy and
not be resolved until well after the deadline to commence monitoring. This argument, in
various versions, has previously been made by other cities for this TMDL to the
regulatory agencies but to no avail.
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The City could conduct the monitoring independently or with adjacent agencies.
However, in that case the City would need to procure a sampling vessel and crews to
collect the necessary samples. This has been investigated as part of the Peninsula
EWMP process and it was found that an independent monitoring program would result
in significantly higher costs.
FISCAL IMPACT
The City's annual costs will be $22,614 and the total 5-year cost to the City will be
$113,071. The first invoice is anticipated to be sent to the City before June 30, 2014 by
the Gateway Authority. Subsequent invoices will be sent in January of each year starting
in 2015. Funds for this fiscal year are available in the Storm Water Quality account.
Funds for the second year are included in the draft budget for FY 2014-15 in this same
account.
Attachments: Technical Summary: Greater Los Angeles Harbor Toxics TMDL MOU
MOU between GWMA and Participating Agencies
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Technical Summary -Greater Los Angeles Harbor Toxics TMDL MOU
The TMDL establishes Load Allocations and Waste Load Allocations (which are
effectively numerical discharge limits) for a wide variety of pollutants including metals
such as copper, lead, zinc and other organic compounds such as DDT and PCB
generally referred to as "toxics." Agencies impacted by this TMDL are divided into three
groups based on geographical drainage areas:
1) Those cities draining to the Dominguez Channel,
2) Those agencies with areas draining directly into the greater harbor which
includes the Los Cerritos Channel watershed, Palos Verdes Peninsula watershed
and Los Angeles River Estuary, and
3) Those agencies draining to the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers.
TMDL monitoring requirements differ for each of the above groups. For agencies with
jurisdictional areas tributary to the Dominguez Channel, monitoring is being addressed
through the development of a Watershed Coordinated Integrated Monitoring Programs
(CIMP). Similarly, TMDL requirements for agency areas tributary to the Los Angeles
and San Gabriel Rivers are being addressed through the development of a Watershed
CIMP. Those agencies identified by the TMDL as draining directly to the greater
harbor, which includes Rancho Palos Verdes, are required to develop and implement a
monitoring plan that includes: sediment testing, water column testing and analysis of
fish tissues.
Representatives of the agencies subject to the greater harbor provisions of this TMDL
have been working together in an effort to reduce the cost of individual agencies
working independently. This group is referred to as the Regional Monitoring Coalition or
RMC and has developed the "Coordinated Compliance Monitoring and Reporting Plan"
which has been submitted to the Regional Board. This monitoring plan calls for the
collection of wet and dry weather water samples at 22 locations annually; sediment
samples collected every 2 to 3 years at the same 22 locations and fish tissue samples
from within four water bodies within the Greater Harbors collected biennially. RMC has
selected a consultant to perform the monitoring, analysis and reporting functions. Their
specific scope of work is included in the MOU's Exhibit B.
A 5-year cost estimate and a cost sharing scenario is shown in Tables 1 and 2 of the
MOU's Exhibit A. This cost estimate is similar to other TMDL and watershed cost
sharing agreements in the Los Angeles County area. Participants are assessed a share
based on agency jurisdictional area of 70 percent of the overall costs. This includes
the water-surface areas of both the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach. The
remaining 30 percent of the cost is shared equally by agencies. The Flood Control
District of Los Angeles County is contributing a flat 10 percent of the cost. The City of
Los Angeles and the Port of Los Angeles are shown as paying as one entity, but are
being assessed as two separate agencies.
There are an estimated 30 to 40 industrial sites with individual NPDES permits within
the Greater Harbor area and as their permits are being renewed, these businesses are
likely to be subject to the same monitoring requirements. Provisions have been made
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Technical Summary -Greater Los Angeles Harbor Toxics TMDL MOU
within the MOU to allow the participating agencies to assess a charge equal to the
agencies initial baseline assessment of $12,300 annually to these industries should they
wish to use the monitoring results to meet their individual permit requirements. This
would proportionally reduce each city and agencies' ultimate cost. It is unknown how
many or when these industrial permittees will ultimately elect to join, therefore no
reduction in cost is shown in the attached MOU.
Both the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach are subject to many additional
monitoring requirements, one of which is the "Southern California Bight" monitoring
project. This is a cyclical monitoring program which includes the use of off-shore water
and sediment sampling equipment similar to that of the TMDL monitoring program. The
Regional Board has indicated that applicable sampling results from the Bight project can
be applied to this Monitoring Plan and projected cost savings are included within the
estimated costs. Recognizing the need to begin the monitoring plan development and
implementation in a timely manner, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have
already contributed a significant portion of their TMDL monitoring share ($219,000
each) directly to their existing monitoring consultants (previously selected via the Port's
RFP process). The remaining tasks will be funded through this MOU.
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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
BETWEEN THE LOS ANGELES GATEWAY REGION INTEGRATED REGIONAL
WATER MANAGEMENT JOINT POWERS AUTHORITY
AND
THE CITIES OF BELLFLOWER, LAKEWOOD, LONG BEACH, PARAMOUNT,
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, ROLLING HILLS, ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, SIGNAL
HILL, AND LOS ANGELES, ACTING BY AND THROUGH ITS BOARD OF HARBOR
COMMISSIONERS, THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, LOS ANGELES COUNTY
FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT, AND THE PORT OF LONG BEACH
FOR ADMINISTRATION AND COST SHARING FOR THE PREPARATION AND
IMPLEMENTATION OF A COORDINATED COMPLIANCE MONITORING AND
REPORTING PLAN AS REQUIRED BY THE REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL
BOARD, LOS ANGELES REGION FOR THE DOMINGUEZ CHANNEL AND LOS
ANGELES AND LONG BEACH HARBORS WATERS TOXIC POLLUTANTS TOTAL
MAXIMUM DAILY LOADS
This Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") is made and entered into as of
May 1, 2014, by and between the Los Angeles Gateway Region Integrated Regional
Water Management Joint Powers Authority ("GWMA"), a California Joint Powers
Authority, and the Cities of Bellflower, Lakewood, Long Beach, Paramount, Rancho
Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills, Rolling Hills Estates, Signal Hill, and Los Angeles, acting by
and through its Board of Harbor Commissioners ("POLA"), the County of Los Angeles,
the Los Angeles County Flood Control District ("LACFCD"), and separately the City of
Long Beach Harbor Department, acting by and through its Board of Harbor
Commissioners ( "Port of Long Beach").
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the mission of the GWMA includes the equitable protection and
management of water resources within its area; and
WHEREAS, for the purposes of this MOU, the term "Permittees" shall mean the
Cities of Bellflower, Lakewood, Long Beach, Paramount, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling
Hills, Rolling Hills Estates, and Signal Hill, and the County of Los Angeles, the LACFCD,
POLA, and the Port of Long Beach; and
WHEREAS, the United States Environmental Protection Agency established the
Total Maximum Daily Loads ("TMDL") for Toxic Pollutants on March 23, 2012, with the
intent of protecting and improving water quality in the Dominguez Channel and the
Greater Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor Waters ("Harbor Toxic Pollutants TMDL");
and
WHEREAS, the Harbor Toxic Pollutants TMDL regulates certain discharges from
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System ("NPDES") permit holders, requiring
organization and cooperation among the Permittees; and
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WHEREAS, the Permittees manage, drain or convey storm water into at least a
portion of the Dominguez Channel, Greater Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor
Waters (including Consolidated Slip) and the Los Angeles River Estuary ("Greater
Harbor Waters"); and
WHEREAS, several of these Permittees are in multiple watersheds and this
MOU shall only pertain to those areas tributary to the Greater Harbor Waters; and
WHEREAS, the Permittees desire to facilitate the achievement of the objectives
of the Harbor Toxic Pollutants TMDL by preparation and implementation of a
Coordinated Compliance Monitoring and Reporting Plan ("CCMRP") to ensure
consistency with other regional monitoring programs and usability with other TMDL
related studies; and
WHEREAS, POLA and the Port of Long Beach, on behalf of the Permittees, have
retained a consultant, Anchor QEA, L.L.C. ("Consultant"), and have prepared and
submitted the CCMRP to the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board
("Regional Board"); and
WHEREAS, implementation of the CCMRP requires administrative and
professional coordination services for the Permittees that the GWMA can provide; and
WHEREAS, the Permittees have collaborated to assist the GWMA in the
implementation of the CCMRP; and
WHEREAS, the Permittees have determined that the costs of preparing and
implementing the CCMRP and other related costs incurred by the GWMA in
administering this MOU should be shared by the Permittees; and
WHEREAS, POLA and the Port of Long Beach have already paid the Consultant
to prepare the CCMRP and the Permittees desire to reimburse POLA and the Port of
Long Beach for the Permittees' share of the costs to prepare the CCMRP; and
WHEREAS, each Permittee shall pay its share of the costs of preparing and
implementing the CCMRP, and any administrative costs related thereto ("Respective
Costs") based on the Cost Sharing Tables contained in Exhibit "A"; and
WHEREAS, on behalf of the Permittees, the GWMA shall administer and enter
into a contract for monitoring and implementing the CCMRP with the Consultant; and
WHEREAS, the Permittees and the GWMA are collectively referred to as the
("Parties"); and
WHEREAS, the State of California, through its Department of Transportation
("Caltrans") is considering participating in the cost-sharing for the preparation and
implementation of the CCMRP; and
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WHEREAS, because it is unknown to the Parties and Caltrans when Caltrans will
obtain ap_proval to fund Caltrans's portion of the cost-sharing of the preparation and
implementation of the CCMRP, the Parties authorize the GWMA to enter into a separate
agreement with Caltrans for CCMRP cost sharing purposes only; and
WHEREAS, individual NPDES permit holders that are not Permittees may wish
to participate in the CCMRP for individual permit compliance; and
WHEREAS, the Parties contemplate allowing other individual NPDES permit
holders to participate in the CCMRP without being a party to this MOU, in order to
minimize the costs of preparing and implementing the CCMRP to each of the
Permittees; and
WHEREAS, the Parties authorize the GWMA to enter into individual separate
agreements with such individual NPDES permit holders (which shall not become parties
to this MOU) for CCMRP cost sharing purposes only; and
WHEREAS, if Caltrans or other individual NPDES permit holders participate in
the cost sharing relating to the CCMRP, the Parties contemplate that the Cost Sharing
Table in Exhibit "A" will be modified as appropriate and each Permittee's proportional
payment obligation reduced accordingly to reflect Caltrans's and/or other individual
NPDES permit holders' payments; and
WHEREAS, the Permittees have elected to implement the CCMRP to address
the Harbor Toxic Pollutants TMDL requirements; and
WHEREAS, the Permittees have approved the Consultant's Scope of Work set
forth in Exhibit "8"; and
WHEREAS, the Consultant shall conduct monitoring to implement the CCMRP
and any other plans, as set forth in the Scope of Work in Exhibit "8", or any
amendments thereto that the Permittees have approved in advance; and
WHEREAS, the Parties have determined that authorizing the GWMA to retain the
Consultant to ·conduct monitoring necessary to implement the CCMRP will be beneficial
to the Permittees; and
WHEREAS, the role of the GWMA is to: (a) invoice and collect funds from each
of the Permittees to cover the costs of preparing and implementing the CCMRP and
paying the Consultant; (b) facilitate the reimbursement of the Permittees' share of the
costs to prepare the CCMRP to POLA and the Port of Long Beach; (c) administer the
Consultant's contract for implementation of the CCMRP; and (d) at the request of the
Permittees, negotiate, enter into agreements with, and collect funds from Caltrans and
individual NPDES permit holders for cost-sharing in the preparation and implementation
of the CCMRP.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and conditions set
forth herein, the Parties do hereby agree as follows:
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Section 1. Recitals. The recitals set forth above are fully incorporated as part
of this MOU.
Section 2. Purpose. The purpose of this MOU is to reimburse the Port of Long
Beach and POLA for their proportional share of the costs of preparing the CCMRP
based on the Cost Sharing Tables in Exhibit "A", to cost share in the implementation of
the CCMRP, and to compensate the GWMA for costs associated with its role and duties
under this MOU.
Section 3. Cooperation. The Parties shall fully cooperate with one another to
achieve the purposes of this MOU.
Section 4. Voluntary Nature. The Parties voluntarily enter into this MOU.
Section 5. Binding Effect. This MOU shall become binding on GWMA and the
Permittees that execute this MOU.
Section 6. Term. This MOU shall remain and continue in effect for five (5)
years following the execution of this MOU, unless terminated earlier pursuant to this
MOU.
Section 7. Permittee Representative.
(a) Each Permittee shall appoint a representative ("Representative")
and, as necessary, an "Alternate Representative" to attend meetings of the Permittees.
Each Permittee shall have one vote on decisions to be made by the Permittees. Except
as noted below, all decisions to be made by Permittees shall require a majority vote.
(b) The Permittees shall appoint a Chair ("Chair"), who shall have the
authority to speak on behalf of the Permittees to the GWMA on decisions to be made by
the Permittees. The Permittees may also appoint a Vice-Chair ("Vice-Chair"), who shall
have the authority to speak on behalf of the Permittees in the event the Chair is
unavailable. The Permittees shall inform the GWMA of the names of the Chair and
Vice-Chair in writing. The GWMA may rely on written directions from the Chair, or the
Vice-Chair, if the Chair is unavailable. In the event of conflicting directions from the
Chair and the Vice-Chair, the GWMA shall rely on the Chair's direction.
(c) The Chair shall be the means of communication between the
Permittees and the GWMA on the approval of: (i) the Consultant's scope of work and
any amendments thereto; (ii) the payment of the Consultant's invoices; (iii) the payment
of any other costs as the Permittees deem necessary; (iv) budget increases; or (v) the
participation of Caltrans or individual NPDES permit holders in the cost-sharing relating
to the CCMRP.
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Section 8. Role of the GWMA.
(a) The GWMA shall invoice and collect funds from each of the
Permittees to cover the costs of preparing and implementing _the CCMRP and paying
the Consultant, according to the Cost Sharing Tables in Exhibit "A";
(b) The GWMA shall facilitate the reimbursement of the Permittees'
share of the costs to prepare the CCMRP to POLA and the Port of Long Beach; and
(c) The GWMA shall administer the Consultant's contract for
implementation of the CCMRP by contracting with and paying the Consultant as
approved by the Permittees; and
( d) At the request of the Permittees, the GWMA is authorized and shall
negotiate, enter into agreements with, and collect funds from Caltrans and individual
NPDES permit holders that are not Permittees for cost-sharing in the preparation and
implementation of the CCMRP.
Section 9. Financial Terms.
(a) Each Permittee shall pay its proportional share of costs
("Respective Costs") based on the Cost Sharing Table contained in Exhibit "A"; for
Consultant and any other related costs which the Chair informs the GWMA in writing
that the Permittees have approved, provided, however, that the LACFCD's total costs
shall not exceed ten percent ( 10%) of the sum total of all Respective Costs without the
LACFCD's written agreement. In the event the Permittees approve an increase in the
budget that would cause the LACFCD's Respective Costs to exceed ten percent (10%)
of the total Respective Costs, the GWMA shall terminate this MOU if the LACFCD does
not inform the GWMA in writing within thirty (30) days that it will pay its increased
Respective Costs unless the Permittees, through their Chair, inform the GWMA within
that time that the other Permittees agree to absorb the LACFCD's additional Respective
Costs.
(b) In addition to the Respective Costs, each Permittee shall also pay
its proportional share of the GWMA's staff time for hiring the Consultant and invoicing
the Permittees, audit expenses and other overhead costs, including reasonable legal
fees incurred by the GWMA in the performance of its duties under this MOU ("MOU
Costs"). The GWMA shall add three percent (3%) to each invoice submitted to each
Permittee to cover each Permittee's share of the MOU Costs.
(c) The GWMA shall submit the first invoice for the 2013-2014 fiscal
year to each Permittee reflecting each Permittee's estimated Respective Costs and
MOU Costs, as provided in Table 2 of Exhibit "A" no later than June 30, 2014. For
each successive year commencing with the 2014-2015 fiscal year, the GWMA shall
submit invoices to the Permittees per the Cost Share Table in Table 2 of Exhibit "A"
no later than April 15th annually. The GWMA shall not make any payment to the
Consultant without the approval of the Permittees as expressed in writing by the Chair.
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( d) The GWMA shall not be required to incur obligations for any fiscal
year in excess of the costs reflected in Exhibit "A" or in excess of any budget approved
by the GWMA and the Permittees unless the Permittees authorize the GWMA to
expend the additional funds. The GWMA may suspend the work of the Consultant as
necessary to avoid incurring additional financial obligation
(e) Upon receiving an invoice from the GWMA, each Permittee shall
pay their invoices to the GWMA within sixty (60) days of the invoice's date.
(f) The costs for the 2013-2014 fiscal year shall be as provided in
Table 2 of Exhibit "A." For each successive year commencing with the 2014-2015
fiscal year, any increase above the recommended costs listed in Table 2 of Exhibit "A"
will require an amendment to this MOU. The GWMA shall not expend funds nor incur
obligations in excess of the projected costs without prior notification to and approval by
the Permittees.
(g) A Permittee will be delinquent if its invoiced payment is not
received by the GWMA within sixty (60) days after the invoice's date. The GWMA will
follow the procedure listed below, or such other procedure that the Permittees direct to
effectuate payment: 1) verbally contact the representative of the Permittee; and 2)
submit a formal letter from the GWMA Executive Officer to the Permittee at the address
listed in Section 13 of the MOU. If payment is not received within ninety (90) days of
the invoice date, the GWMA may terminate this MOU unless the City
Managers/Administrators/Chief Executive Officers for those non-delinquent Permittees
inform the GWMA in writing that they agree to adjust their Respective Cost allocations
in accordance with the Cost Sharing Tables in Exhibit "A" to account for the delinquent
Permittees costs. However, no such termination may be ordered unless the GWMA first
provides the Permittees with sixty (60) days written notice of its intent to terminate the
MOU. If the GWMA receives such confirmation from the City
Managers/Administrators/Chief Executive Officers, the delinquent Permittee's
participation in this MOU will be terminated and the Cost Sharing Tables in Exhibit "A"
or such other formula to which the Permittees shall direct will be adjusted. A terminated
Permittee shall remain obligated to GWMA for its delinquent payments and any other
obligations incurred prior to the date of termination.
(h) The GWMA may suspend or modify the scope of work being
performed by any Consultant retained by GWMA whenever any Permittee has not paid
its invoice within ninety (90) days of the invoice date unless the City
Managers/Administrators/Chief Executive Officers of those non-delinquent Permittees
inform the GWMA that they will pay the delinquent Permittee's costs once the MOU with
the delinquent Permittee has been terminated.
(i) Any delinquent payments by a Permittee shall accrue compound
interest at the average rate of interest paid by the Local Agency Investment Fund during
the time that the payment is delinquent.
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U) Funds remaining in the possession of the GWMA at the end of the
term of this MOU, or at the termination of this MOU, whichever occurs earlier, shall be
promptly returned to the then-remaining non-delinquent Permittees and in accordance
with the Cost Sharing Table in Exhibit "A".
Section 10. Independent Contractor.
(a) The GWMA is, and shall at all times remain, a wholly independent
contractor for performance of the obligations described in this MOU. The GWMA's
officers, officials, employees and agents shall at all times during the Term of this MOU
be under the exclusive control of the GWMA. The Permittees cannot control the conduct
of the GWMA or any of its officers, officials, employees or agents. The GWMA and its
officers, officials, employees, and agents shall not be deemed to be employees of the
Permittees.
(b) The GWMA is solely responsible for the payment of salaries,
wages, other compensation, employment taxes, workers' compensation, or similar taxes
for its employees and consultants performing services hereunder.
Section 11. Indemnification and Insurance.
(a) The GWMA shall include in the agreements with the Consultant an
indemnification clause requiring the Consultant to defend, indemnify and hold harmless
each of the Permittees and the GWMA, their officers, employees, and agents, from and
against any and all liabilities, actions, suits, proceedings, claims, demands, losses,
costs, and expenses, including legal costs and attorney's fees, for injury to or death of
person(s), for damage to property (including property owned by the GWMA or any
Permittee) resulting from negligent or intentional acts, errors and omissions committed
by Consultant, their officers, employees, and other representatives and agents, arising
out of or related to Consultant's performance under its agreement with the GWMA.
(b) Each Permittee shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless the
other Parties and their officers, employees, and other representatives and agents from
and against any and all liabilities, actions, suits proceedings, claims, demands, losses,
costs, and expenses, including legal costs and attorney's fees, for injury to or death of
person(s), for damage to property (including property owned by the GWMA and any
Permittee) for negligent or intentional acts, errors and omissions committed by the
indemnifying Permittee or its officers, employees, and agents, arising out of or related to
that Permittee's performance under this MOU, except for such loss as may be caused
by GWMA's or any other Party's negligence or that of its officers, employees, or other
representatives and agents other than the Consultant.
(c) The GWMA shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless the
Permittees, their officers, employees, and other representatives and agents of the
Permittees, from and against any and all liabilities, actions, suits proceedings, claims,
demands, losses, costs, and expenses, including legal costs and attorney's fees, for
injury to or death of person(s), for damage to property (including property owned by the
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Permittees) and for negligent or intentional acts, errors and omissions committed by
GWMA, its officers, employees, and agents, arising out of or related to GWMA's
performance under this MOU.
( d) Consultant's Insurance. The GWMA shall require the Consultant to
obtain and maintain through the term of their contracts with the GWMA the following
policies of insurance with minimum limits as indicated below and issued by insurers with
A.M. Best ratings of no less than A:
i. Comprehensive Commercial General Liability Insurance with
minimum limits of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) per incident or accident for bodily
injury, death and property damage;
ii. Automobile Liability Insurance for any owned, non-owned or
hired vehicle used in connection with the performance of the Services under this MOU
with minimum combined single limits coverage of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000);
iii. Professional Liability (Errors and Omissions) Insurance,
which in aggregate with the Comprehensive General Liability Insurance, provides a
minimum limit of Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) per incident; and
iv. Workers' Compensation insurance as required by the State
of California.
( e) GWMA makes no guarantee or warranty that the reports prepared
by GWMA and its Consultant shall be approved by the relevant governmental
authorities. GWMA shall have no liability to the Permittees for the negligent or
intentional acts or omissions of GWMA's Consultant. The Permittees' sole recourse for
any negligent or intentional act or omission of the GWMA's Consultant shall be against
the Consultant and its insurance.
Section 12. Termination.
(a) A Permittee may withdraw from this MOU for any reason, or no
reason, by giving the other Parties prior written notice thereof. The withdrawing
Permittee shall be responsible for its Respective Costs and MOU Costs through the end
of the current fiscal year during which said Permittee withdraws. Moreover, unless the
withdrawing Permittee provides written notice of withdrawal to the other Parties by the
March 1st immediately prior to the new fiscal year, the withdrawing Permittee shall also
be responsible for its Respective Costs and MOU Costs through the end of the new
fiscal year (e.g., If a permittee withdraws on March 2, 2015, said permittee is
responsible for its share of costs for both FY 2015-2016 and FY 2014-2015. If the same
permittee withdraws on February 25, 2015, said permittee is responsible for costs only
for FY 2014-2015, not for FY 2015-2016). Such Respective Costs and MOU Costs
shall include the remaining fees of any Consultant retained by the GWMA through the
end of the new fiscal year. Should any Permittee withdraw from the MOU, the
remaining Permittees' Respective Cost allocation shall be adjusted in accordance with
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the Cost Sharing Table in Table 2 of Exhibit "A". A withdrawing Permittee shall
remain liable for any loss, debt, or liability otherwise incurred through the end of the new
fiscal year.
(b) The GWMA may, with a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the full GWMA
Policy Board, terminate this MOU upon not less than thirty (30) days written notice to
the Parties. Any remaining funds not due and payable or otherwise legally committed to
Consultant shall be returned to the remaining Permittees in accordance with the Cost
Sharing Table set forth in Table 2 of Exhibit "A".
Section 13. Miscellaneous.
(a) Other NPDES Permit Holders.
i. Individual or general NPDES permit holders who are not
Permittees that receive Harbor Toxic Pollutants TMDL monitoring requirements in their
NPDES permits may wish to participate in the implementation of the CCMRP in order to
utilize the CCMRP monitoring data to satisfy all or part of the monitoring and reporting
requirements in their NPDES permits. Any such NPDES permit holder may submit a
letter of interest to the Chair requesting to become a participant in the CCMRP. The
letter of interest at a minimum shall contain a commitment to pay annually twelve
thousand three hundred dollars ($12,300) ("Annual Payment Amount") for participant
status.
ii. Upon receipt of the letter of interest, the Chair shall distribute
the letter to the Permittees who shall vote on whether to grant the NPDES permit holder
participant status. If the Permittees by majority vote determine that participant status
should be granted, the Chair shall notify GWMA and shall send a letter of acceptance to
the NPDES permit holder stating the date by which its first Annual Payment Amount
must be made. Failure to pay the Annual Payment Amount by the date set forth in the
letter of acceptance shall result in termination of the NPDES permit holder's participant
status.
iii. An NPDES permit holder accepted as a participant shall not
be a Permittee or one of the Parties to this MOU and shall not be entitled to appoint a
representative or to vote or participate in any way in decisions assigned to Permittees
by this MOU. Participant status entitles an NPDES permit holder only to the monitoring
data collected as part of the CCMRP and to have its name included on all reports
submitted in accordance with the CCMRP for any fiscal year in which the participant has
paid its Annual Payment Amount. ·
(b) Notices. All Notices which the Parties require or desire to give
hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given when delivered personally or
three (3) days after mailing by registered or certified mail (return receipt requested) to
the following address or as such other addresses as the Parties may from time to time
designate by written notice in the aforesaid manner:
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To GWMA:
Ms. Grace Kast
GWMA Executive Officer
c/o Gateway Cities Council of Governments
16401 Paramount Boulevard
Paramount, CA 90723
To the Permittees:
12664/0001/1651427-8
Mr. Jeffrey L. Stewart
City Manager
City of Bellflower
16600 Civic Center Drive
Bellflower, CA 90706
Ms. Lisa A. Rapp,
Director of Public Works
City of Lakewood
5050 Clark Avenue
Lakewood, CA 90712
Mr. Anthony Arevalo
Storm Water/Environmental Compliance
Storm Water Management Division
City of Long Beach
333 West Ocean Boulevard, 9th Floor
Long Beach, CA 90802
Mr. A.J. Moro
Acting Executive Director
Port of Long Beach
925 Harbor Plaza
Long Beach, CA 90802
Mr. Chris Cannon
Director of Environmental Management
Port of Los Angeles on behalf of the City of Los Angeles
425 S. Palos Verdes Street
San Pedro, CA 90713
Mr. Christopher S. Cash
Director of Public Works
City of Paramount
16400 Paramount Blvd.
Paramount, CA 90723
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Ms. Carolynn Petru
Acting City Manager
Rancho Palos Verdes
30940 Hawthorne Blvd
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
Mr. Raymond R. Cruz
City Manager
City of Rolling Hills
2 Portuguese Road
Rolling Hills, CA 9027 4
Mr. Greg Grammer
Assistant City Manager
City of Rolling Hills Estates
4045 Palos Verdes Drive North
Rolling Hills Estates, CA 9027 4
Mr. Kenneth C. Farfsing
City Manager
City of Signal Hill
2175 Cherry Avenue
Signal Hill, CA 90755
Ms. Gail Farber
Director of Public Works
County of Los Angeles Department of Public Works
900 S. Fremont Avenue
Alhambra, CA 91803
Mr. Gary Hildebrand
Los Angeles County Flood Control District
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County of Los Angeles Department of Public Works Watershed
Management Division, 11th Floor
900 S. Fremont Avenue
Alhambra, CA 91803-1331
(c) Separate Accounting and Auditing. The GWMA will establish a
separate account to track revenues and expenses incurred by the GWMA on behalf of
the Permittees. Any Permittee may upon five (5) days written notice inspect the books
and records of the GWMA to verify the cost of the services provided and billed by
GWMA. GWMA shall prepare and provide to the Permittees annual financial statements
and audits, after review and approval by the Permittees.
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(d) Amendment. The terms and provisions of this MOU may not be
amended, modified or waived, except by a written instrument signed by all Parties and
approved by all Parties as substantially similar to this MOU.
(e) Waiver. Waiver by either the GWMA or a Permittee of any term,
condition, or covenant of this MOU shall not constitute a waiver of any other term,
condition, or covenant. Waiver, by the GWMA or a Permittee, to any breach of the
provisions of this MOU shall not constitute a waiver of any other provision or a waiver of
any subsequent breach of any provision of this MOU.
(f) Law to Govern: Venue. This MOU shall be interpreted, construed,
and governed according to the laws of the State of California. In the event of litigation
between the Parties, venue shall lie exclusively in the County of Los Angeles.
(g) No Presumption in Drafting. The Parties to this MOU agree that the
general rule than an MOU is to be interpreted against the Parties drafting it, or causing it
to be prepared, shall not apply.
(h) Severability. If any term, provision, condition or covenant of this
MOU is declared or determined by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void,
or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of this MOU shall not be affected thereby
and this MOU shall be read and construed without the invalid, void, or unenforceable
provisions(s).
(i) Entire Agreement. This MOU constitutes the entire agreement of
the Parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior or
contemporaneous agreements, whether written or oral, with respect thereto.
U) Counterparts. This MOU may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but all of which taken together shall
constitute but one and the same instrument, provided, however, that such counterparts
shall have been delivered to all Parties to this MOU.
(k) Legal Representation. All Parties have been represented by
counsel in the preparation and negotiation of this MOU. Accordingly, this MOU shall be
construed according to its fair language.
(I) Agency Authorization. Each of the persons signing below on behalf
of the Parties represents and warrants that he or she is authorized to sign this MOU on
their respective behalf.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have caused this MOU to be
executed on their behalf, respectively, as follows:
DATE: -------
12664/0001/1651427-8
LOS ANGELES GATEWAY REGION
INTEGRATED REGIONAL WATER
MANAGEMENT JOINT POWERS
AUTHORITY
Christopher S. Cash
GWMAChair
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have caused this MOU to be
executed on their behalf, respectively, as follows:
DATE: _____ _
ATTEST:
Debra Bauchop
City Clerk
12664/0001/1651427-8
CITY OF BELLFLOWER
Jeffrey L. Stewart, City Manager
City Manager
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Joseph W. Pannone
City Attorney
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have caused this MOU to be
executed on their behalf, respectively, as follows:
DATE: -------
_______ ,2014
CITY OF LONG BEACH HARBOR
DEPARTMENT, acting by and through its
Board of Harbor Commissioners
A.J. Moro
Acting Executive Director
Long Beach Harbor Department
The foregoing document is hereby approved as to form.
_______ ,2014
12664/0001/1651427-8
Charles Parkin, City Attorney
Barbara McTigue
Deputy City Attorney
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have caused this MOU to be
executed on their behalf, respectively, as follows:
DATE: -------
ATTEST:
Denise Hayward
City Clerk
12664/0001/1651427-8
CITY OF LAKEWOOD
Todd Rogers
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Steve Skolnick
City Attorney
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have caused this MOU to be
executed on their behalf, respectively, as follows:
DATE:------
ATTEST:
Larry Herrera
City Clerk
CITY OF LONG BEACH
Patrick H. West
City Manager
The foregoing document is hereby approved as to form.
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12664/0001/1651427-8
Charles Parkin, City Attorney
Barbara McTigue
Deputy City Attorney
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have caused this MOU to be
executed on their behalf, respectively, as follows:
DATE: -------
ATTEST:
Amber M. Klesges
Acting Board Secretary
12664/0001/1651427-8
CITY OF LOS ANGELES, by its Board of
Harbor Commissioners
GARY LEE MOORE
Interim Executive Director
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
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Michael N. Feuer, City Attorney
Janna B. Sidley, General Counsel
By:
Ken Mattfeld, Deputy City Attorney
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have caused this MOU to be executed on
their behalf, respectively, as follows:
DATE: ____ _
ATTEST:
Lana Chikami
City Clerk
12664/0001/1651427-8
CITY OF PARAMOUNT
Diane J. Martinez
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
John E.Cavanaugh
City Attorney
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have caused this MOU to be
executed on their behalf, respectively, as follows:
DATE: ____ _
ATTEST:
Carla Morreale
City Clerk
12664/0001/1651427-8
CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES
Jerry V. Duhovic
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Carol W. Lynch
City Attorney
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have caused this MOU to be
executed on their behalf, respectively, as follows:
DATE: -------
ATTEST:
Heidi Luce
City Clerk
12664/0001/1651427-8
CITY OF ROLLING HILLS
8. Allen Lay
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Michael Jenkins
City Attorney
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have caused this MOU to be executed on
their behalf, respectively, as follows:
DATE: ____ _
ATTEST:
Douglas R. Prichard
City Clerk
12664/0001/1651427-8
CITY OF ROLLING HILLS ESTATES
Judith M. Mitchell
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Donald M. Davis
City Attorney
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have caused this MOU to be executed on
their behalf, respectively, as follows:
DATE: -------
ATTEST:
Kathee Pacheco
City Clerk
12664/0001/1651427-8
CITY OF SIGNAL HILL
Ken Farfsing
City Manager
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
David J. Aleshire
City Attorney
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have caused this MOU to be executed on
their behalf, respectively, as follows:
DATE:------
12664/0001/1651427-8
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
Gail Farber
Director of Public Works
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
John F. Krattli
County Counsel
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have caused this MOU to be
executed on their behalf, respectively, as follows:
DATE: ------
~y:
12664/0001/1651427-8
LOS ANGELES COUNTY FLOOD
CONTROL DISTRICT
County of Los Angeles
Department of Public Works
Watershed Management Division, 11th Fl.
900 South Fremont Avenue
Alhambra, CA 91803-1331
Chief Engineer
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
John F. Krattli
County Counsel
Associate
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EXHIBIT "A"
Cost Share Tables and Formula
Tables 1 and 2
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Exhibit A, Table 1 -Cost Share Summary
flat 10% $266,491 $0
Bellflower 4.391 $76,622 $66,623 $0
Lakewood 7.531 $131,427 $66,623 $0
Lona Beach 39.461 $688,728 $66,623 $0
Port of Lona Beach 11.351 $198, 101 $66,623 ($219,909
Los Anaeles and Port of Los Anaeles 20.351 $355,185 $133,245 ($219,909
Paramount 1.721 $30,021 $66,623 $0
Rancho Palos Verdes 3.001 $52,361 $66,623 $0
Rollina Hills 0.921 $16,058 $66,623 $0
Rollina Hills Estate 0.351 $6,109 $66,623 $0
Sianal Hill 2.181 $38,049 I $66,623 I $0
o.361 $6,283 I $66,623 I $0 I $72,906
~~~~:~.~~:l~1illl~l~~--~·l'[!iltll~lii'~f·:~·:.:~11~i~lil'i'ill~IBll:,'i.
*Monitoring costs will vary from year to year however costs will be averaged over the 5 year monitoring program.
The average amount will be invoiced yearly.
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Exhibit A, Table 2 -Greater LA Harbor Toxics TMDL Estimated Cost Share Formula
7.53
39.46
11.35
20.35
1.72
3.00
0.92
0.35
2.18
0.36 -.... , .. ,,.,,:,91;is:117,.
$439,8191 _::·:·.: I _::::::: I _::-::: I _::::::: I _::·::: I
$439,819
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*Monitoring costs will vary from year to year however costs will be averaged over the 5 year monitoring program. The average amount will be invoiced yearly.
**The Admin Yearly Rate Increase accounts for inflation, unforeseen coordination such as meetings with the Regional Board, and monitoring false starts.
Only actual costs wiU be invoiced.
***Previous development costs are not subject to the 3% GWMA administration fee
Permittee costs wiU be adjusted based on the number of individual NPDES permitees that participate
Its
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Base Cost" I 30%
Area tJOSl I 60%
LACFCD Contribution I 10%
Total I 100%
~!!t~4li$k. ::~:::::.:;.·.·:·
Bight work $242,000
RMC.Relaled'""' $271,122
fOlal $513,122
"".·::::::':::~;j~:::::::::,:::::::·:::::::;::;~:::.;::,:,.,
1vvMrtP DeveJopment
IPQAPP Development
MS4 Integration
!Meeting Facilitation
Estimated CCMRP~lriSlization
Estimated MeetiilifFiriilif8tion:
9/2013 through 6/2014
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$70,uuu
$60,000
$20,000
$78.~:Jij
$20,000
$22,166
6%
3%
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EXHIBIT "B"
Consultant Scope of Work
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ANCHOR
~ ""'-""" QEA~
27201 Puerta Real, Suite 350
Mission Viejo, California 92691
Phone 949.347.2780
March 24, 2014
Anthony Arevalb
Storm Water Management, City of Long Beach Department of Public Works
333 West Ocean Boulevard
Long Beach, California 90802
Re: Statement of Qualifications for Compliance Monitoring Services for the Greater
Harbor Waters Regional Monitoring Coalition
Dear Mr. Arevalo:
On behalf of Anchor QEA, LLC, I am pleased to provide this Statement of Qualifications for
compliance monitoring services for the Greater Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor
Waters as specified in the amendment to the Water Quality Control Plan -Los Angeles
Region (Basin Plan Amendment) to incorporate the Final Dominguez Channel and Greater
Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor Waters Toxic Pollutants Total Maximum Daily Loads
(Harbor Toxics TMDL). We thoroughly understand all compliance monitoring
requirements and have ass~mbled a team of qualified professionals to successfully
complete all field monitoring, laboratory analysis, and data management elements on
behalf of the Greater Harbor Waters Regional Monitoring Coalition (RMC).
Anchor QEA is very familiar with this project and the effort needed to successfully meet the
RMC's objectives within the required schedule. Anchor QEA will be supported by several
local firms: Calscience Environmental Laboratories, Inc.; Physis Environmental Laboratories,
Inc.; Nautilus Environmental; Port Gamble Environmental Services; EcoAnalysts;
Seaventures Inc.; and Leviathan Environmental Services, LLC.
I will lead the team with technical assistance from Ors. Shelly Anghera and Wendy Hovel.
As the project manager, I will work closely with RMC members dedicated to program
oversight as well as with you (the primary RMC point-of-contact to the Gateway Cities
Council of Governments) to manage monitoring and administrative tasks efficiently to
ensure compliance monitoring and reporting schedules are met. For this program to be
successful, the RMC needs a team with experience and resources to conduct sediment,
water, and fish tissue field sampling activities; a team capable of understanding and
interpreting the compliance monitoring results for TMDL compliance points; and a team
with trusted relationships within the RMC and regulatory agencies.
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Mr. Anthony Arevalo, City of Long Beach Department of Public Works
March 24, 2014
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Team with Experience and Resources to Conduct Sampling Activities.
Anchor QEA has conducted water and sediment quality monitoring programs throughout
Southern California. Our experience includes stormwater monitoring, receiving water
monitoring, sediment and benthic infauna collections for assessing sediment quality
according to various methods. We have conducted long-term monitoring programs in the
Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor, Eastern San Pedro Bay, Alamitos Bay, Newport Bay, and
San Diego Bay. ·our field staff and project managers include environmental scientists,
fisheries biologists, marine ecologists, toxicologists, and geologists. Our local office
maintains three sampling vessels, water quality instrumentation and sampling
apparatuses, and multiple sediment sampling devices. We have strong teaming
relationships with two subcontractors, Seaventures and Leviathan Environmental Services,
capable of providing larger vessels and appropriate nets and trawls for collecting fish
S?mples.
Team Capable of Understanding and Interpreting Compliance Monitoring Results.
In addition to reporting and managing compliance monitoring generated data,
Anchor QEA is well qualified to understand and interpret results relative to the Harbor
Toxics TMDL compliance measures. Shelly and Wendy, technical advisors to the project
team, have been involved in the review and development of the Sediment Quality
Objective (SQO) tools for Parts 1 and 2. Understanding the development of these tools
allows Anchor QEA to properly interpret results in light of various confounding issues. Our
team members lead the method development and interpretation of toxicity identification
evaluations (Tl Es) to discern causative agents to toxic impairments.
Team with Trusted Relationships with the RMC and Regulatory Agencies.
Anchor QEA has been involved with the development and coordination of the RMC since
its inception. Originally contracted by the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles (Ports) to
develop and manage the strategic approach to addressing Harbor Toxics TMDL
requirements, we recognized that the Ports and the remaining named responsible parties
would mutually benefit from a coordinated approach to compliance monitoring activities.
We facilitate the RMC meetings and are committed to maintaining the communication
and responsiveness to this group throughout the program. Furthermore, in our role with
the Ports, we developed strong relationships with the State Water Resources Control
Board and Regional Water Quality Control Board through interactions during monthly
meeti'ngs to ensure the Harbor Toxics TMDL-related special studies and compliance
monitoring activities are conducted in the most scientifically sound way to best inform
compliance and updates at the reopener in 2018.
Lastly, I am proud to represent such a qualified team as the project manager. I have more
than 15 years of experience managing large-scale monitoring projects similar to the
Harbor Toxics TMDL compliance monitoring program for the Greater Harbor Waters both
nationally and internationally. Over the past 10 years, I have developed relationships with
local and regional regulators on a variety of stormwater, receiving water monitoring,
sediment characterization, and dredge material management projects. I am confident
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Mr. Anthony Arevalo, City of Long Beach Department of Public Works
March 24, 2014
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that, working together with the RMC, we can successfully complete all required
compliance monitoring and reporting elements of the Harbor Toxics TMDL.
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to provide this proposal. In the following pages,
we present details about Anchor QEA, local staff committed to this project, relevant
project experience, an overview of our program approach and cost estimate.
We look forward to continuing our relationship with the RMC and to provide each
participating member exceptional service.
Sincerely,
Andrew Martin
Managing Environmental Scientist
Anchor QEA, LLC
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Table of Contents
SECTION TITLE PAGE
Introduction to the Team
2 Key Project Staff 5
3 Relevant Project Experience 11
4 Approach to the Project 20
5 Project Schedule 24
6 Cost Estimate 26
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INTRODUCTION TO THE TEAM
Anchor QEA is the region's leader in water and sediment
quality monitoring, including Sediment Quality Objective
(SQO) assessments, total maximum daily load (TMDL)
development, and contaminated sediment management.
To support the Greater Harbor Waters Regional Monitoring
Coalition (RMC), Anchor QEA has carefully selected key
local firms to assist with implementing compliance
monitoring. This selective process resulted in an
exceptional team that has unique knowledge to
implement a program that is consistent with the RMC's
goals. Members of our team have worked closely together
for more than 1 O years and have created strong, efficient,
and collaborative working relationships with each other.
We are confident that our team will respond quickly and
efficiently to meet the RMC's needs.
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Anchor QEA Team Highlights
Analytical chemistry laboratories passed
regional laboratory inter-calibration studies
conducted by Southern California Coastal
Water Research Project.
All team members have participated in
Southern California Regional Monitoring
Programs.
Having multiple team members to fulfill each
role ensures capacity to complete all field
sampling and laboratory analyses.
Compliance Monitoring Services
Introduction to the Team
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AnchorQEA
Role: Project Management, Field Sampling, Data Management and Reporting,
RMC Meeting Coordination
Anchor QEA is a nationally recognized environmental and engineering consulting firm that specializes in
aquatic, shoreline, and water resource projects. We have extensive experience and expertise assisting
municipalities, ports, ha:bor operations, and permit holders with environmental support services.
Anchor QEA has developed a reputation of providing value to our clients in the areas of water and
sediment quality services, such as stormwater, surface water and groundwater monitoring; source tracking,
sediment characterization; dredge material suitability determinations; short-and long-term sediment
management planning; sediment remediation; engineering design support; TMDL support; and permitting.
We work with both public and private sector clients on some of the most challenging sites in the nation,
and our completed projects are among the most successful in the industry. The strength Anchor QEA
brings to .each and every project reflects our core values of technological leadership, integrity, superior
product quality, and client satisfaction.
Anchor QEA has maintained as-needed and environmental management contracts with the Port of Long
Beach, Port of Los Angeles, and City of Long Beach for 5 years. Currently, we are the Ports of Long Beach
and Los Angeles' (Ports') selected firm to develop a strategic approach and management alternatives for
the Final Dominguez Channel and Greater Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor Waters Toxic Pollutants Total
Maximum Daily Loads (Harbor Toxics TMDL). Compliance monitoring activities are a requirement of the
Harbor Toxics TMDL, and a coordinated approach to compliance monitoring is critical to best inform
regional management decisions affecting all named responsible parties; therefore, Anchor QEA facilitated
the creation of the RMC and developed the Coordinated Compliance Monitoring and Reporting Plan
(CCMRP).
Calscience Environmental Laboratories, Inc.
Role: Analytical Chemistry
Calscience Environmental Laboratories, Inc. (Calscience), located in Garden Grove, has been providing
analytical testing of environmental matrices since 1986. They offer a comprehensive portfolio of analytical
methods, and their analytical expertise encompasses all environmental matrices including air,
groundwater, seawater, sediment, soil, wastewater, and tissue. Calscience is certified under the California
Department of Public Health Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (ELAP) and the National
Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (NELAP).
Physis Environmental Laboratories, Inc.
Role: Analytical Chemistry
Physis Environmental Laboratories, Inc. (Physis), located in Anaheim, provides general and specialized
chemistry support with standard and custom in-line production of low and ultra-low level performance-
based method detections. They analyze stormwater and marine water, sediment, bio-accumulative animal
and plant tissue, and aerial deposition samples meeting standard detection levels, lower reporting levels
and ultra-low sediment effects range low, and fish contaminant goals. Physis is a California Department of
Public Health ELAP-certified laboratory.
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Compliance Monitoring Services
Introduction to the Team
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Nautilus Environmental
Role: Biological Testing
Nautilus Environmental, located in San Diego, has been providing toxicity testing and field collection
services since 2004. They specialize in National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit
compliance, toxicity identification evaluations (Tl Es), environmental monitoring, water and sediment
quality, and bioassessment. At the core of the business is their accredited environmental toxicology
laboratory, which offers 'a full range of toxicity, bioaccumulation, and bioavailability testing services for
water, sediment, and soil samples. Nautilus is a California Department of Public Health ELAP-certified
laboratory.
Port Gamble Environmental Services
Role: Biological Testing
Port Gamble Environmental Sciences, LLC (PGES), located in Port Gamble, Washington, is a consulting and
laboratory services group that operates an aquatic testing laboratory to assist in assessing site-specific
biota-contaminant relationships. They conduct aquatic and sediment toxicity tests and bioaccumulation
and bioavailability tests; perform site-specific evaluations for a variety of tropical, subtropical, and
temperate organisms; and perform various specialized tests including NPDES and TIEs. They have
extensive experience supporting projects conducted throughout Southern California. PGES is nationally
accredited under the NELAP program and has state accreditation by Washington State Department of
Ecology.
EcoAnalysts
Role: Benthic Infauna Community Analyses
EcoAnalysts, located in Moscow, Idaho, provides habitat assessment, biological monitoring, and taxonomy
services. They specialize in start-to-finish habitat assessment and bioassessment services, including in-field
collection and taxonomy of macroinvertebrates, fish, phytoplankton, periphyton, and zooplankton. Since
1995, EcoAnalysts has grown to become a recognized leader in the bioassessment industry as a result of
their performance providing taxonomic determinations and rigorous internal quality assurance and quality
control (QA/QC) measures. They have conducted benthic infauna community analyses to support the
Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring Programs.
Seaventures, Inc.
Role: Vessel Support
Seaventures, Inc., located in Dana Point, has been owned and operated by U.S. Coast Guard-licensed
Masters (100-ton certification) since 1977. They own and operate a 42-foot fishing vessel modified for
environmental sampling. Seaventures maintains and provides specialized environmental sampling
equipment, including a variety offish trawls and nets. They have experience supporting an array of
projects, including scientific research, environmental monitoring, and field sample collection.
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Compliance Monitoring Services
Introduction to the Team
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Leviathan Environmental Services, LLC
Role: Vessel Support
Leviathan Environmental Services, LLC (Leviathan), located in Pleasant Hill, is a marine and aquatic research
support enterprise. They have extensive experience in marine and aquatic investigations, including fielq
management, field sampling, planning, research, vessel operations, dredge material disposal studies, water
quality, stormwater, health and safety, and terrestrial site investigations. They provide cost-effective
research support for clients in need of mobile vessels and equipment to safely satisfy project requirements.
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KEY PROJECT STAFF
The Anchor QEA team offers the RMC extensive experience in all aspects of aquatic environmental services
and has well-established expertise in sediment, water, and tissue quality testing (i.e., using biological,
chemical, and toxicological methods). Anchor QEA and our subconsultants have worked closely together
for more than 1 O years and in that time have created trusted working relationships. We are confident that
our team will respond quickly and efficiently to meet the RMC's needs.
The technical areas of expertise, roles and responsibilities, and lines of communication of each Anchor QEA
team member are presented in our organizational chart and summarized on the following pages. Resumes
for key staff are attached.
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Organizational Chart
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Staff Experience Summaries
Staff Member and Role
Andrew Martin
Project Manager
Shelly Anghera, Ph.D.
Technical Advisor
Wendy Hovel, Ph.D.
Technical Advisor
Chris Osuch
Field Manager
Joy Dunay
QA Manager
Laurel Menoche
Data Manager
Brittany Geisler
Field Support
Dustin Fellers
Field Support
Bonnie Ahr
Field Support
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Experience Summary
• Experience managing and implementing large-scale field sampling programs
in coastal regions throughout the United States. He currently leads the Ports'
field program and has designed and assembled field programs requiring
regulatory approvals. These studies have been executed efficiently, and all
expectations were achieved.
• Experience conducting field and laboratory studies related to marine eco-
toxicology and sediment quality characterization. Her expertise centers on
field study design, sediment characterization, water and sediment testing and
analysis, implementation strategies for TMDL compliance, and SQO
application. Shelly currently leads TMDL strategic support for the Ports.
• Experience providing management and technical support for many large,
multi-disciplinary sediment investigations, including those focused on
sediment chemical and toxicological characterization, dredge material
evaluations, contaminated sediment management, specialized studies (e.g.,
sediment contaminant flux and toxicity identification evaluation), ecological
risk assessment, TMDLs, and bioaccumulation potential assessments and
modeling. Wendy led developmentofthe Programmatic Quality Assurance
Project Plan (PQAPP).
• Experience conducting dredge material evaluations, sediment
characterizations, and water quality monitoring. He assists Andrew the Ports'
field programs.
• Experience performing analytical chemistry-related tasks including analytical
method selection for regulatory requirements, data validation, and QA for
various study objectives. She assisted Wendy during PQAPP development.
• Experience working with relational databases within Microsoft Access,
Microsoft SQL Server, Visual FoxPro, and FoxPro, including designing,
querying, importing, exporting, maintaining, and providing QA/QC.
• Experience conducting water and sediment quality monitoring programs
throughout Southern California.
• Experience conducting water and sediment quality monitoring programs
throughout Southern California.
• Experience collecting and identifying fish as well as conducting a fish tracking
study throughout San Pedro Bay.
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Andrew Martin
Project Manager
Andrew Martin is a managing environmental scientist with more than 18 years of multi-disciplinary
environmental science data collection, interpretation, and presentation expertise. He has designed,
implemented, and managed a variety of programs in the marine environment and surrounding
watersheds. He is skilled in collecting sediment, water, and biological samples; performing dry weather
and stormwater monito.ring; and investigating contaminant sources via contaminant fate and transport
studies and marine biological habitat surveys. In addition, Andrew has a thorough understanding of
project-specific and regional sediment management requirements and has developed dredge material
management plans, long-term management strategies, and beneficial use alternative strategies. He has
managed programs to support developmen~ ofTMDLs, Environmental Impact Statements, NPDES permit
requirements, special research studies, and ecological emergency response activities (i.e., Natural Resource
Damage f.ssessments). Andrew also has extensive expertise in hydrographic, oceanographic, geophysical,
and dive surveying. He applies innovative technological methods to more accurately and extensively
collect environmental data.
For this project, Andrew will be the project manager. He will work closely with the RMC and designated
points-of-contact and be responsible for scheduling, coordinating, and directing all field sampling,
analytical testing, and reporting to ensure all project objectives are met.
Shelly Anghera, Ph.D.
Technical Advisor
Dr. Shelly Anghera is a principal scientist with more than 17 years of experience conducting field and
laboratory studies related to marine eco-toxicology and sediment quality characterization. Shelly has
· focused on providing specialized environmental services for the Ports for the past 1 O years. Her expertise
centers on field study design, sediment characterization, water and sediment testing and analysis,
implementation strategies for TMDL compliance, and SQO application. Shelly has taught courses on
TMDLs, toxicity testing, SQO, and ecological risk in contaminated sediments. Her projects often focus on
the integration of multiple lines of evidence to determine sediment quality for dredged material, beneficial
reuse of contaminated sediments, and sediment TMDL implementation planning. Recent projects include
Port-Wide Sediment Management Plans, TMDL support, water quality monitoring, and sediment and water
quality characterization within the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor in support of the Water Resource
Action Plan (WRAP).
For this project, Shelly will be a technical advisor. In addition to program management oversight and
assistance, she will assist with interpreting analytical data relative to compliance measures, as required by
the Harbor Toxics TMDL.
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Wendy Hovel, Ph.D.
Technical Advisor
Dr. Wendy Hovel is a managing environmental scientist with 17 years of experience. Her expertise centers
on sediment characterizations, specialized studies (e.g., sediment contaminant flux and toxicological
investigations), beneficial reuse alternatives assessments, sediment toxicity identification evaluations,
sediment management, TMDLs, and bioaccumulation potential assessments. Wendy has managed or
provided technical advi~e on projects for many large, multi-disciplinary sediment investigations, including
those for a number of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) districts and divisions (e.g., New Orleans, New
York/New Jersey, New England, Los Angeles, and Wilmington), Ports (e.g., Los Angeles and Long Beach),
and the U.S. Navy (e.g., Pacific Division [Naval Facilities Engineering Command]). As part of these projects,
specialized programs were required to statistically assess sediment chemistry data gaps, delineate the
spatial extent of sediment contamination, or design and implement specialized analytical tests.
For this project, Wendy will be a technical advisor. She will assist with evaluating chemistry and toxicity
test procedures and provide recommendations for alternative testing, as necessary.
Chris Osuch
Field Manager
Chris Osuch is a senior scientist with more than 13 years of professional experience. His areas of technical
expertise include dredge material evaluations and management, sediment characterizations, water quality
monitoring programs, aquatic toxicology, and TMDLs. He has managed multiple dredge material
evaluations to determine suitability for open-water disposal, beneficial reuse, or upland placement as well
as water quality monitoring projects to assess impacts of discharge. Chris is currently functioning as the
field coordinator for Anchor QEA's California offices and has managed multiple sediment, water quality,
and benthic macroinvertebrate sampling programs. He has experience with a wide variety of sampling
techniques, including the use of a vibracore, piston core, box core, diver core, Van Veen, Ekman, petite
ponar, Seabird CTD, and various water quality meters (e.g., YSI, Hydrolab, Orion).
For this project, Chris will be the field manager. He will lead and execute all field sampling activities.
Joy Dunay
QA Manager
Joy Dunay is an environmental scientist with more than 14 years of experience in the environmental
industry, with an emphasis in analytical chemistry. She has extensive management experience with high-
profile projects, including Superfund sites, which require a high level of data scrutiny, interpretation, and
reporting. Joy manages the chemistry group at Anchor QEA, which oversees laboratory and analytical
method selection, QA of analytical data (collection and analysis), and data validation using prescribed
project documentation or U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) functional guidelines. Joy is a
recognized leader in method development and implementation of specialized chemistry studies. In
addition to project chemistry tasks, she leads the development of PQAPPs, Sampling and Analysis Plans,
and Data Reports. Joy also has extensive field experience using "clean hands" techniques for the collection
of sediment, soils, groundwater, and air and often leads field audits with regulators.
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For this project, Joy will be the QA manager. She will provide a QA/QC review on all field measurements,
laboratory analytical reports, and compliance monitoring reports.
Laurel Menoche
Data Manager
Laurel Menoche is an environmental scientist with 12 years of experience working with relational
databases within Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual FoxPro, and FoxPro, including designing,
querying, importing, exporting, maintaining, and providing QA/QC. She is also proficient with Microsoft
Excel, including running calculations and statistics and creating charts and tables.
For this project, Laurel will be the data manager. She will be responsible for maintaining all field
measurements and laboratory analytical results in a project database and for coordinating the distribution
of these data to the RMC and the Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) as required by the Harbor
Toxics TMDL.
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RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Anchor QEA is currently supporting our clients respond to TMDL requirements and conducting long-term
site assessments and compliance monitoring projects throughout Southern California. Our ongoing TMDL
projects range from designing, modeling, and conducting special studies to assist the Ports by addressing
concerns during the Harbor Toxics TMDL reopener, to compliance monitoring as required by the Colorado
Lagoon TMDL, and coordinating and educating stakeholders on potential future TMDLs. Our continuing
long-term monitoring projects include multidisciplinary sample collections to evaluate the performance of
two regional confined aquatic disposal (CAD) capping projects and water quality monitoring associated
with dredging operations.
The following six projects were selected to highlight our understanding of the Harbor Toxics TMDL and
recent experience in conducting long-term, multi-disciplinary monitoring programs within San Pedro Bay
and the region.
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SUMMARY OF RELEVANT ANCHOR QEA PROJECTS IN THE REGION
Project and Client Name
Harbor Toxics TMDL Strategic
Management Approach
Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles
Colorado Lagoon TMDL Support
City of Long Beach
Rhine Channel and Lower Newport
Bay Dredging
City of Newport Beach
Fish Harbor Sediment Characterization
Port of Los Angeles
North Energy Island
Borrow Pit Confined Aquatic Disposal Site
Pilot Study
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Los Angeles District
Port of Hueneme Maintenance Dredging
Confined Aquatic Disposal Site
Construction
Oxnard Harbor District
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Relevant Elements
• Water quality monitoring
• Sediment quality monitoring
• Fish tissue and benthic infauna collection
• Toxicity evaluation
• SQO
• Long-term monitoring
• Compliance reporting
• Database management
• Meeting facilitation
• Agency interaction and negotiation
• Water quality monitoring
• Sediment quality monitoring
• Fish tissue collection
• Toxicity evaluation
• Long-term monitoring
• Compliance reporting
• Water quality monitoring
• Sediment quality monitoring
• Toxicity evaluation
• Long-term monitoring program
• Compliance reporting
• Meeting facilitation
• Agency interaction and negotiation
• Sediment quality monitoring
• SQO
• Database management
• Water quality monitoring
• Sediment quality monitoring
• Benthic infauna analysis
• Long-term monitoring program
• Compliance reporting
• Meeting facilitation
• Agency interaction and negotiation
• Water quality monitoring
• Sediment quality monitoring
• Long-term monitoring program
• Compliance reporting
• Database management
• Meeting facilitation
• Agency interaction and negotiation
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Harbor Toxics TMDL Strategic
Mana ement Approach
Anchor O.EA is currently supporting the Ports with development of
a strategic approach to meet sediment and water quality limits
defined in the Harbor Toxics TMDL. We supported the Ports with
the development of technical comments on the draft TMDL, which
resulted in the ability to demonstrate compliance using alternative
methods, inclusion of special studies to collect needed site-specific
contaminant fate and transport and bioaccumulation information,
and a reopener in 2018 in which site-specific management
alternatives may be applied.
Currently, we are developing monitoring plans and special studies
to establish the technical basis for amendments to the Harbor
Toxics TMDL during the reopener. We facilitate monthly meetings
Relevant Elements
Water quality monitoring
Sediment quality monitoring
Fish tissue and benthic infauna
collection
Toxicity evaluation
SQO
Long-term monitoring
Compliance reporting
Database management
Meeting facilitation
Agency interaction and negotiation
with the State Water Resources Control Board and RWQCB staff and Project Reference
the Ports. Technical studies, including site-specific bioaccumution
model development, site-specific contaminant fate and transport
models, source investigations, stressor identification, best
management practices effectiveness, and ultra-low detection limit
methodologies, are reviewed and approved by the RWQCB prior to
implementation to ensure information will be considered during
the TMDL reopener. This information will be used to determine the
linkage between contaminant sources and impairment to develop
remedial actions. These special studies will provide information to
evaluate the effectiveness of various management actions in the
improvement of water quality.
Furthermore, Anchor QEA is supporting the Ports' development of
a strategy for TMDL attainment that allows compliance to be
demonstrated through California's SQO Parts 1 (direct effects) and
2 (indirect effects).
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Matt Arms, Port of Long Beach
(562) 590-4160
Kathryn Curtis, Port of Los Angeles
(310) 732-3681
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oon TMDL Support
• Relevant Elements
Colorado Lagoon is a Y-shaped waterbody comprising 29 acres in
an urban watershed in Long Beach and is tidally connected to
Alamitos Bay via an underground culvert. Colorado Lagoon was
303(d)-listed for sediment quality impacts due to lead, zinc,
chlordane, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). A TMDL
was developed and subsequently adopted by the RWQCB as a
Basin Plan Amendment in 2009 with specific requirements for
improvements to water and sediment quality, with considerations
to the bioaccumulation of organic contaminants in fish and
mussels.
As such, TMDL compliance monitoring is required quarterly
(summer, fall, winter, and spring) as detailed in the CLTMP.
Compliance monitoring activities include measuring in situ water
quality\ and collecting water quality samples for chemical analyses
from four stations quarterly. Sediment samples are collected for
chemical and biological (i.e., toxicity) analyses from four stations
annually. Fish tissue samples of two target species (topsmelt and
shiner perch) are collected for chemical analyses from four stations
annually. Mussels are collected for chemical analyses from three
stations annually. The program requires quarterly reporting and
data submittals to the RWQCB.
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Sediment quality monitoring
Fish tissue collection
Toxicity evaluation
Long-term monitoring
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Project Reference
Ana DeAnda, City of Long Beach
(562) 570-6032
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Rhine Channel and Lower Newport Bay Dredging
Starting in 2003, Anchor QEA (formerly Anchor Environmental) was
retained by the City of Newport Beach and Orange County
Coastkeeper to serve as the technical lead and project manager for
a combined Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (Rl/FS) and
maintenance dredging of the Rhine Channel in Lower Newport Bay.
After leading numerous studies-such as surface and subsurface
sediment characterization, bathymetry surveys, debris field
mapping, and structural engineering surveys of the existing
shoreline structures-we prepared a final FS report (2005) that
recommended dredging and disposal in either a port fill or an on-
site CAD facility.
On behalf of the City of Newport Beach, we assumed the role of
lead construction manager for the Rhine Channel dredging
program. In this capacity, we oversaw all contractor operations on
a daily basis; interacted directly and frequently with City of
Newport Beach representatives; managed a team of dredging,
water quality, and structural inspectors; and assisted with public
outreach.
Following the success of the Rhine Channel dredging program,
Anchor QEA assisted the City of Newport Beach in expanding the
program to include clean and contaminated areas throughout
Lower Newport Bay, resulting in an additional more than 200,000
cubic yards of dredging. We were instrumental in securing the
disposal agreement at the Port of Long Beach, developing and
implementing the water quality and sediment monitoring
program, and assisting City of Newport Beach staff with contractor
management, communications, and schedule coordination for the
contaminated sediment disposal events at the Port of Long Beach.
Monitoring requirements for both projects consisted of in situ
water quality measurements (i.e. temperature, dissolved oxygen,
pH, turbidity, salinity) and water sampling for laboratory analysis
before, during, and after dredging activities. We worked with the
RWQCB to develop special studies that investigated the
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Toxicity evaluation
Long-term monitoring program
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Meeting facilitation
Agency interaction and negotiations
Project Reference
Chris Miller, City of Newport Beach
(949) 644-3043
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relationship of turbidity to potential biological impacts.
Results of these studies refined the compliance monitoring criteria
for the region to consider multiple lines of evidence, an evaluation
of impact duration, and varying thresholds adjacent and assay from
sensitive eelgrass beds in the harbor. As a result of the improved
monitoring program, Anchor QEA demonstrated that dredging
activities were not resul~ing in a negative impact to the
environment. Confirmatory sediment sampling was also required
in multiple areas to ensure the post-dredge substrate met project
requirements. We developed monthly and annual compliance
monitoring reports according to permit requirements.
Fish Harbor Sediment Characterization
Anchor QEA conducted a sediment characterization study within
Fish Harbor in the Port of Los Angeles. The program included
collecting sediment samples using a surface grab sampler and
vibracore. Surface sediment samples were evaluated in accordance
with the SQO Part 1 chemistry line of evidence to better define
potential sediment remediation volumes under the Harbor Toxics
TMDL. Core samples were subsampled in 2-foot segments in and
submitted for chemical analysis to delineate the vertical
distribution of chemical contaminants. These data were also used
to develop conceptual-level design scenarios for two different
potential confined disposal facility (CDF) sites within Fish Harbor.
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Sediment quality monitoring
SQO
Database management
Project Reference
Kathryn Curtis, Port of Los Angeles
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North Energy Island Borrow Pit Confined Aquatic
Disposal Site Pilot Study
Anchor QEA designed, managed, and monitored the construction
of a pilot CAD site in Long Beach Harbor to support the Los Angeles
Contaminated Sediments Task Force (CSTF) and USACE's long-term
sediment management documents. The project consisted of
dredging 100,000 cubic meters of sediment from the Los Angeles
River Estuary and placing it into the nearby North Energy Island
Borrow Pit located in the Inner Harbor. To support project design,
water current meters were deployed and USACE-developed models
were used to understand the fate and transport of sediments
during placement activities. Following placement of the
contaminated sediment, a 3-to 5-foot-thick sand cap layer was
added to the CAD cell to isolate contaminated material from the
marine environment.
A long-term (12-year) monitoring program was initiated
immediately following construction in 2001 and was completed in
2013. Monitoring activities included:
Surface Sediment Sampling. Sediments were screened and
processed for benthic infauna community analyses to evaluate
recolonization of the capping site.
Sediment Core Sampling. Subsamples were collected from the
overlying sediment, cap material, and contaminated material
to confirm the cap sequestered contaminants from the
overlying sediments.
Overlying and Porewater Sampling. Receiving water samples
and porewater from the cap material were collected to confirm
contaminants were not migrating into San Pedro Bay.
Bathymetric Surveys. Maps of the capping site were made to
confirm the long-term integrity of the cap.
Diver Surveys. Underwater observations were made to evaluate
surface integrity of the cap and document the presence of
macroinfauna.
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Water quality monitoring
Sediment quality monitoring
Benthic infauna analysis
Long-term monitoring program
Compliance reporting
Meeting facilitation
Agency interaction and negotiation
Project Reference
Jim Fields, USACE
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Port of Hueneme Maintenance Dredging and
Confined Aquatic Disposal Site Construction
Anchor Q_EA managed engineering design; environmental review;
permits components, including National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA), California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), Essential Fish
Habitat (EFH), Clean Water Act (CWA), and Endangered Species Act
(ESA); and long-term monitoring activities for maintenance
dredging and construction management of a multi-user CAD site in
Port Hueneme, California. The CAD facility consisted of an
excavated cell designed to contain and sequester contaminated
sediments dredged from areas managed by the U.S. Navy (USN),
USACE, and Oxnard Harbor District (OHO), such that sediments
remained permanently isolated from the surrounding environment.
Excavating the CAD cell had the additional benefit of providing
clean sand for nourishment of adjacent beaches. The project
entailed excavating an approximately 500,000-cubic-meter CAD
cell in Port of Hueneme Harbor, nourishing a nearby beach with the
excavated material, placing contaminated sediments dredged from
the harbor in the CAD cell, and capping the CAD cell with clean
sediment and a layer of armor rock.
Anchor QEA provided instrumental support in all aspects of this
project, including:
Sediment Management. We developed and implemented
sediment characterization plans and evaluated feasible
sediment management alternatives (e.g., beach nourishment).
Engineering Design. We developed all environmental and
technical details of the project design, including CAD
dimensions, volume projections, site geotechnical
characteristics, chemical transport modeling, and contract
documents.
Agency Negotiation. We coordinated the environmental review
and permitting process with numerous state and federal
agencies as well as led public outreach activities.
Construction Management. We oversaw all activities, provided
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Meeting facilitation
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Chris Birkelo, Oxnard Harbor District
(805) 488-3677
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all compliance reporting, and conducted intensive water
quality monitoring and sediment sampling during
construction.
Anchor QEA continues to work with the USN, USACE, and OHD to
perform long-term monitoring of the CAD cell. Long-term
monitoring activities were designed to confirm the CAD cap is
maintaining its physical"integrity and ensure the CAD cap
continues to sequester underlying contaminants. Long-term
monitoring activities include:
Bathymetric survey
Sediment core sampling
Porewater sampling
Long-term monitoring activities conducted to date have shown the
design and construction of the CAD cap is performing as designed.
SUMMARY OF RECENT LOCAL SEDIMENT AND WATER QUALITY CHARACTERIZATIONS
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Colorado Lagoon TMDL Support,
Long Beach
Rhine Channel and Newport Bay Federal
Dredging, Newport Beach
Fish Harbor Sediment Characterization,
Los Angeles Harbor San Pedro Ba
North Energy Island Borrow Pit Confined
Aquatic Disposal Site Pilot Study,
Long Beach Harbor, San Pedro Ba
Port of Hueneme Maintenance Dredging
Confined Aquatic Disposal Site
Construction, Port of Hueneme
Andrew Martin, Project Manager
Shelly Anghera, Technical Advisor
Wendy Hovel, Technical Advisor
Chris Osuch, Field Manager
Joy Dunay, QA Manager
Laurel Menoche, Data Manager
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APPROACH TO THE PROJECT
The amendment to the Water Quality Control Plan -Los Angeles Region (Basin Plan Amendment) to
incorporate the Harbor Toxics TMDL specifies compliance monitoring requirements for sediment, water,
and fish tissue in the Greater Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor Waters (including Consolidated Slip;
herein referred to as Greater Harbor Waters). The Basin Plan Amendment recommends that responsible
parties collaborate or coordinate compliance monitoring efforts to avoid duplication and reduce
associated costs. As such, the responsible parties for the Greater Harbor Waters have formed an RMC.
Anchor QEA developed a Draft CCMRP for the RMC's review and submittal to the RWQCB. Compliance
monitoring activities as specified in the CCMRP are required to begin 6 months after approval of the
CCMRP by the Executive Officer of the RWQCB.
To complete the required compliance monitoring activities, we developed this scope of work in
accordance with the CCMRP. The objective of the proposed effort is to conduct all sediment, water, and
fish tissue monitoring and develop annual reports for the RMC to submit to the RWQCB.
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Task 1: Regional Monitoring Coalition Meeting Management
Anchor QEA will coordinate monthly meetings and provide logistic
support and meeting facilitation for the RMC. Responsibilities
associated with meeting support include the following:
Serving as a public point-of-contact for stakeholders regarding
general information and coordinating document review and
comments
Scheduling meetings as requested by RMC members
Developing draft agendas in coordination with RMC members
Providing meeting materials as needed for RMC meetings
Researching and responding to inquiries and comments
Objective
Coordinate monthly meetings with the
RMC to discuss program requirements
and disseminate information related to
compliance monitoring activities
Deliverables
• Meeting agenda
• Meeting materials
• Meeting minutes
presented by participating responsible parties relative to compliance monitoring activities and the
potential to coordinate these activities with other monitoring programs (e.g., MS4 permit), where
feasible
Taking detailed meeting minutes and documenting attendees (meeting minutes include follow-up
action items and a summary of agreed decision points)
Assumptions
Meetings will be held once every 4 to 6 weeks.
• Meetings will be held at either the City of Long Beach or Port of Long Beach.
Task 2: Compliance Monitoring Field Activities
Anchor QEA will coordinate and conduct field activities. As
provided in detail in the CCMRP, the monitoring program consists
of collecting water and sediment samples at 22 stations and
collecting fish tissue samples within four waterbodies. To
maintain consistency and to take advantage of coordinated
sampling efforts with other regional monitoring programs, sample
collection methods will adhere to Southern California Coastal
Water Research Project's (SCCWRP's) Regional Bight Monitoring
Program or Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP)
monitoring protocols.
Water
Objective
Conduct compliance monitoring
activities to collect water, sediment and
fish tissue data as required by the Harbor
ToxicsTMDL
Deliverables
• Monthly status updates on field
sampling and sample analyses
progress
In situ water quality will be measured and water samples will be collected three times annually (two during
wet weather events and one during a dry weather event) at each of the 22 stations. The first large storm of
the season will be targeted as one of the two wet weather events and will have a predicted rainfall of at
least 0.25 inch with a 70 percent probability of rainfall at least 24 hours prior to the event start time. In situ
measurements include temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, and salinity. Water samples will be collected
and submitted for the following parameters:
Total suspended solids
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Dissolved and total metals
Organochlorine pesticides (including DDT and its derivatives, chlordane compounds, dieldrin, and
toxaphene)
Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners
Flow will not be measured in receiving waters, because mixing and other hydrodynamic factors will
confound the flow measurements.
Sediment
Sediment monitoring will be performed twice every 5 years all 22 stations. Surface sediment grab samples
will be collected and submitted for chemistry, toxicity, and benthic community analyses in accordance with
SQO Part 1 sediment triad assessment. Sediment chemistry analyses will include the following parameters:
Total organic carbon
Grain' size
Metals
PAHs
Organochlorine pesticides (including DDT and its derivatives, chlordane compounds, dieldrin, and
toxaphene)
PCB congeners
SQO sediment line of evidence toxicity analyses will include an acute amphipod survival test and the
chronic, sub-lethal sediment-water interface (SWI) test. Benthic community analyses will be conducted and
benthic community condition will be measured using four SQO indices.
Tissue
Fish tissue samples will be collected once every 2 years at only four stations: one in Consolidated Slip, one
in Los Angeles Outer Harbor, one in Long Beach Outer Harbor, and one in Eastern San Pedro Bay.
Composite samples of three fish species (white croaker, California halibut, and shiner surfperch) will be
collected at all stations, except for Consolidated Slip; only white croaker will be collected at this station.
Fish tissue samples will be submitted for the following parameters:
• Percent lipids
Organochlorine pesticides (including DDT and its derivatives, chlordane compounds, dieldrin, and
toxaphene)
PCB congeners
Assumptions
All field sampling will be conducted in accordance with methods used in the SCCWRP's Regional Bight
Monitoring Program or SWAMP compatible programs.
Wet weather receiving water sampling will be targeted for 24 hours after a storm event occurring
between October 1 and April 30.
Sediment sampling activities occur in 2016 and 2018 and will include all SQO Part 2 lines of evidence
for both sampling events.
SQO Part 1 and fish tissue sampling will only occur between June 1 and September 30.
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Task 3: Annual Reporting and Data Management
Anchor QEA will compile all field observations and laboratory
analytical data into annual reports for submittal to the RMC.
Annual compliance monitoring reports will include the following
elements:
Introduction: an overview of the Harbor Toxics TMDL and
objectives of compliance monitoring program.
Overview of Compliance Monitoring Activities: a summary of
required monitoring activities conducted during the reporting
year.
Methods: detailed information relative to sampling and
sample analysis techniques.
Results: presentation of all field observations and laboratory
analytical data, including project maps illustrating actual
sampling locations.
QA/QC: a review of results relative to the PQAPP and data
validation of analytical laboratory reports.
Objective
Compile all field observations and
laboratory analytical data into annual
reports for submittal to the RMC
Deliverables
• Draft Annual Monitoring Report for
RMC
• Final Draft Annual Monitoring
Report for RMC
• Final Annual Monitoring Report for
RWQCB
• Electronic data deliverable offield
observations and laboratory
analytical data for each RMC
member
Statement of Compliance: a statement of compliance for each Harbor Toxics TMDL-named waterbody.
Compliance will be determined via one of four potential means to determine compliance as specified
in the Basin Plan Amendment.
Appendices: copies offield logs, representative photographs, and all laboratory analytical reports.
This task also includes all data management activities, such as QA/QC of the laboratory analytical data,
database management and electronic deliverable of all data to responsible parties, and project
management activities required to ensure successful completion offield sampling, data management, and
field reporting.
Assumptions
A Draft Annual Monitoring Report will be submitted electronically to the RMC by July 31, 2015 (for
monitoring activities occurring in calendar year 2014).
RMC members will have 2 weeks to review the draft report, and Anchor QEA will have 2 weeks to
respond to comments and prepare a Final Draft Annual Monitoring Report. A final draft report will be
submitted electronically to the RMC by August 31 for confirmation that all comments were
appropriately addressed.
The RMC will submit the Final Annual Monitoring Report to the RWQCB in September.
All successive annual monitoring reports will follow the same schedule each year.
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PROJECT SCHEDULE
The Harbor Toxics TMDL requires compliance monitoring activities to begin 6 months after the monitoring
plan is approved by the Executive Officer of the RWQCB and continue annually until the Executive Officer
has determined no additional monitoring is necessary (i.e., compliance with the Harbor Toxics TMDL has
been achieved) or an amended program is appropriate. The Draft CCMRP was submitted to the RWQCB for
approval in June 2013. The RWQCB provided comments to the Draft CCMRP in November 2013; the
document was revised and resubmitted for approval in February 2014. Approval is anticipated in March
2014. Therefore, monitoring should begin in September 2014.
Water quality monitoring (one dry weather event during the traditionally lowest flow month and two wet
weather events) will be conducted annually.
Sediment sample will be collected every 2 to 3 years to assess sediment quality per SQO Part 1. As per
technical guidance for the SQO Part 1 assessment process, sediment samples for chemistry, benthic
infauna community analysis, and toxicity should be collected between June 1 and September 30.
Fish tissue samples will be collected biennially (i.e., once every 2 years).
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Compliance monitoring reports will be submitted annually beginning within 15 months after monitoring
activities started. Annual reports will document compliance monitoring activities relative to a calendar
year (i.e., January 1 through December 31 ). We anticipate draft reports will be submitted to the RMC for
review in July 1 of each calendar year. Final draft reports will be submitted to the RWQCB in September of
each calendar year.
A proposed schedule of monitoring activities is presented below
RMC meetings are anticipated to occur once every 4 to 6 weeks throughout the course of the project,
pending availability of responsible parties and project requirements.
Water Quality Monitoring
Sediment Sampling
{SQO)&
fish Tissue Sampling
Reporting
Notes:
Two per 5 years
Biennially
Annually
•
• •
• • • •
•
•
• Wetwtlltlwwaterquallty
monitoring W Fan (Octob&r 1-0ecember31l
Wet weather monitoring occurs between October 1 and April 30. For Hlustrativl!
purposes, wet weather monitoring Is shown to occur in winter and fall Wet
weather mooitorlng may occur during April (spring), and It Is llkoly two wat
weather events may occur in the same season. Similarly for dry weather, It may
occur during May 01 June(spring).
The wet weather SffSOfl and the reporting schedule are not the same. Annual
t> Ory weather water quality
monitoring
• Taskoccuis:at thlstlme
Sp Spring (Aprll 1 -Junf: 30)
Su SummerUuly 1-Septembef30l
reports may not Include all wetweather monitoring events for a given wet season. Sa<llment quality evaluations
to conducted ln coordlnatlonwlth
Waterquallty monitoring lndudes In situ monitoring (pH, dissolved oxygen, Bight Program years.
temperatu~ and salinity) and water sampling for sub$eq111.1nt chemical ~nalyses.
F Winter (January 1 -March 31)
Sedltrumt sampling Includes cQUec:t grab sampl!is fc>r chemical and taxlcologic:al
an~lyses and benthk Infauna community analysis.
rtsh tissue sampling indw:lescomposltlngfish tissue/species for chemical analyses.
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COST ESTIMATE
To assist the RMC in understanding the relative magnitude of costs associated with an extensive
monitoring program (as specified in the Harbor Toxics TMDL), Anchor QEA developed a cost estimate in
spring 2013. The cost estimate was provided on an annual basis through 2018 and sub-totaled based on
the required monitoring elements per year (i.e., sediment, water, and fish tissue monitoring and reporting).
This cost estimate has been the basis for development of the cost share agreement that is incorporated
into the Memorandum of Understanding amongst the RMC members.
Anchor QEA is committed to conducting the project as originally estimated. A summary of these costs,
relative to our proposed project tasks described above is presented below.
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Summary of Estimated Costs
Task Estimated Cost
Task 1: Regional Monitoring Coalition Meeting Management $160,658
Task 2: Compliance Monitoring Field Activities $1,324,000
Task 3: Annual Reporting and Data Management $602,000
Estimated Total Cost $2,086,658
A summary of annual costs is summarized in the table below. This table shows a breakdown of costs for
each monitoring element (water, sediment, and fish tissue). The specific scope of services and schedule for
each elerrent is presented in previous sections.
Water quality monitoring includes two wet weather and one dry weather monitoring event each year. For
each monitoring event, three teams will be deployed to sample all 22 stations. Monitoring costs include
mobilization, field collection, and chemical analysis.
Sediment sampling will be performed twice every 5 years and includes performing a SQO Part 1 sediment
triad assessment at 22 stations. Sampling costs include mobilization, surface sediment grab sampling,
chemical analysis, toxicity testing, and benthic community analyses.
Fish tissue sampling will be performed once every 2 years and includes trawling at four stations. Sampling
costs include mobilization, fish trawls, and chemical analysis of composite samples for target species.
Task 3 costs include compliance monitoring reports and data validation and management. Reporting costs
are estimated to be 20 percent of total costs, excluding project management. Data validation and
management costs were determined based on the estimated number of samples submitted for each
analysis.
Summary of Annual Costs
Task
Task 1: Regional Monitoring Coalition Meeting Management
Monthly Meeting Support and Coordination
Subtotal
Task 2: Compliance Monitoring Field Activities
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2WetEvents
(Sample Collection and In Situ Monitoring at 22 stations)
1 Dry Event
(Sample Collection and In Situ Monitoring at 22 stations)
2014 2015 2016 2017
Year1 Year2 Year3 Year4
$28,500 $30,210 $32,023 $33,944
$28,500 $30,210 $32,023 $33,944
$43,000 $45,000 $48,000 $51,000
$17,000 $18,000 $19,000 $20,000
Compliance Monitoring Services
Cost Estimate
2018
Years
$35,981
$35,981
$53,000
$21,000
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2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Task Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5
Total Suspended Solids s4,ooo $4,000 $5,000 $5,000 $5,000
(22 stations x 3 depths+ 4 QNQC = 70 samples/event x 3 annual events= 21 O samples/year)
Total and Dissolved Metals, Organochlorine Pesticides, PCB Congeners s77 ,ooo $82,000 $86,000 $92,000 $95,000
(22 stations+ 3 QNQC = 25 samples/event x 3 annual events= 7S samples/year)
Sediment
SQO Part 1 SedimentTriad Assessment
(Sample Collection and Processing at 22 stations)
Total Organic Carbon, Grain Size, Metals, PAHs, Organochlorine
Pesticides, PCB Congeners
(22 stations + 3 QNQC = 25 samples)
Benthic Community Composition
(22 stations+ 3 QNQC = 25 samples)
Acute Amphipod Survival
(22 stations+ 3 QNQC = 25 samples)
Chronic Sub-Lethal Polychaete or mussel
(22 stations + 3 QNQC = 25 samples)
Tissue
Trawling
(Sample Collection and Processing at 4 stations)
% Lipids, Organochlorine Pesticides, PCB Congeners
([3 stations x 3 species]+ [1 station (CS) x 1 species]) x 3 composites+ 3 QNQC = 33 samples)
$53,000 $56,000
$29,000 $31,000
$23,000 $25,000
$50,000 $54,000
$50,000 $54,000
$19,000 $21,000 $24,000
$13,000 $15,000 $17,000
Subtotal $173,000 $749,000 $399,000 $768,000 $435,000
Task 3: Annual Reporting and Data Management
Other Required Elements
Laboratory Analytical Data QA/QC $13,000 $12,000 $17,000 $13,000 $16,000
Data Analysis and Electronic Database/Deliverable $12,000 $12,000 $17,000 $13,000 $16,000
Reporting $40,000 $35,000 $87,000 $39,000 $87,000
Project Management $24,000 $21,000 $52,000 $24,000 $52,000
Subtotal $89,000 $80,000 $773,000 $89,000 $777,000
Total per year $290,500 $259,210 $604,023 $290,944 $641,981
Assumptions
Source control investigative work such as TIEs or additional monitoring "upstream" ofTMDL-specified
monitoring locations will not be conducted.
The RWQCB does not require any additional monitoring events, monitoring stations, and/or analytical
parameters other than those already specified in the Harbor Toxics TMDL. Additional monitoring, as
directed by the RWQCB, would incur additional costs.
Coordination with other monitoring programs (e.g., MS4 permit monitoring requirements) other than
the SCCWRP's Regional Bight Monitoring Program does not occur. Although, some data collected as
part of this program may be used by each RMC member to satisfy requirements of other programs;
additional monitoring activities to satisfy all monitoring requirements of other programs would incur
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additional costs. Each RMC member can determine how data generated through Harbor Toxics TMDL
compliance monitoring program may be used for other purposes.
Compliance monitoring will be required until the Greater Harbor Waters has been shown to be
compliant with the Harbor Toxics TMDL. Pending decisions made during the reopener scheduled for
2018, the scope of these compliance monitoring activities and responsible parties may be amended.
Costs for compliance monitoring activities occurring in 2019 and beyond are not included in this
estimate.
A 6 percent annual escalation rate was applied to the compliance monitoring cost estimate based on
the following reasons:
Incorporates an industry-average inflation rate of 3.5 percent.
Incorporated to provide flexibility to address unforeseen support needs, including:
., It is likely that unforeseen coordination activities may be required in communications with the
RWQCB and RMC or coordination with regional monitoring programs.
~ The cost estimate was originally developed using 2013 rates for a variety of subcontractors and
every attempt was made to use the most cost-effective alternative. Because the cost estimate
was being developed with an understanding that a contract to conduct the work would not be
authorized until 2014, Anchor QEA was not in a position to develop subcontracts or make
scheduling commitments with subcontractors. Therefore, this escalation rate provides for
increases in subcontractor rates that may be driven by contractor and equipment availability.
m False starts in the stormwater sampling program are not included. We believe the 24-hour
delay in sampling will prevent full mobilization for storms; however, internal preparation may
still impact the budget. For example, laboratory coordination and staff time for equipment
calibration and preparation.
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Resumes
Andrew Martin
Shelly Anghera, Ph.D.
Wendy Hovel, Ph.D.
Chris Osuch
Joy Dunay
Laurel Menoche
Brittany Geisler
Dustin Fellers
Bonnie Ahr
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Andrew Martin
Managing Environmental Scientist
Andrew Martin is a managing environmental scientist with more than 18
years of multi-disciplina!y environmental science data collection,
interpretation, and presentation expertise. He has designed,
implemented, and managed a variety of programs in the marine
environment and surrounding watersheds He is skilled in collecting
sediment, water, and biological samples; performing dry weather and
stormwater monitoring; and investigating contaminant sources via
contaminant fate and transport studies and marine biological habitat
surveys. In addition, Mr. Martin has a thorough understanding of project-
specific and regional sediment management requirements and has
developed dredge material management plans, long-term _management
strategies, and beneficial use alternative strategies. He has managed
programs to support development ofTotal Maximum Daily Loads
(TMDLs), Environmental Impact Statements, National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) permit requirements, special research
studies, and ecological emergency response activities (i.e., Natural
Resource Damage Assessments). Mr. Martin also has extensive expertise
in hydrographic, oceanographic, geophysical, and dive surveying. He
applies innovative technological methods to more accurately and
extensively collect environmental data.
Project Experience
EDUCATION
University of Washington, 8.5.,
Geological Oceanography, 7 995
CERTIFICATIONS
40-hour HAZWOPER
CPR, AED, and First Aid
Harbor Toxics TMDL Support
Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles
San Pedro Bay, California
The Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach (Ports) are required
to develop and implement a strategy that will allow the Ports to
comply with the TMDL for Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor. The
strategy involves identifying contaminant sources and establishing
links between sources and current sediment and tissue impairments,
so that effective remedial actions can be taken. Specific projects that
Mr. Martin has managed as part of this ongoing program include
developing and implementing a Coordinated Compliance
Monitoring and Reporting Program, facilitating a regional
monitoring coalition consisting of 14 separate stakeholders,
developing a sampling strategy to determine rates of natural
recovery, and developing a sampling strategy to capture dry and wet
weather (stormwater) runoff.
As part of the project, Mr. Martin participates and presents ongoing
work at meetings with state and local regulatory agencies and other
stakeholders on behalf of the Ports. He also provides program
management support, including review of invoices, budget
forecasting, and project scheduling.
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Andrew Martin
Managing Environmental Scientist
Project Experience (Continued)
Fish Harbor Sediment
Characterization
Port of Los Angeles
San Pedro Bay, California
Western Anchorage Dredged
Material Evaluation
Port of Long Beach
San Pedro Bay, California
Piers T and J Dredged Material
Evaluation
Port of Long Beach
San Pedro Bay, California
Middle Harbor Fill Site Borrow
Pit Tier I Evaluation
Port of Long Beach
San Pedro Bay, California
The Port of Los Angeles is required to remediate contaminated
sediments within Fish Harbor. Mr. Martin developed a sampling
program and conducted field sample collection of surface and
subsurface sediment samples to evaluate the horizontal and vertical
extent of contaminant migration and to assess surface sediment
chemistry relative to the Sediment Quality Objectives (SQO) Part 1
chemistry line of evidence. Results were used to develop feasible
remediation alternatives.
The Port of Long Beach required geotechnically suitable material for
placement within the Phase I Middle Harbor Fill Site. Mr. Martin
developed a sampling program and conducted field sample
collection of subsurface sediment samples to evaluate the suitability
of temporary stored sediments at the Western Anchorage Sediment
Storage Site for use as fill.
Mr. Martin developed a Sampling and Analysis Plan (SAP) and
coordinated field sampling for the Tier I characterization of proposed
maintenance dredged material for its suitability for use as fill material
at the Phase I Middle Harbor Fill Site. The project required collecting
and assessing post-dredge surface (i.e., z layer) sediment samples.
The Port of Long Beach required geotechnically suitable material for
placement within the Phase I Middle Harbor Fill Site. Mr. Martin
developed a Tier I suitability determination in accordance with UTM
guidelines and based on relevant historical data to designate a
borrow pit site, located within the footprint of the proposed Phase II
Middle Harbor Fill Site.
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Shelly Anghera, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist
Dr. Shelly Anghera is a principal scientist with more than 17 years of
experience conducting field and laboratory studies related to marine eco-
toxicology and sediment quality characterization. Dr. Anghera has
focused on providing specialized environmental services for the Ports of
Long Beach and Los Angeles for the past 10 years. Her expertise centers
on field study design, sediment characterization, water and sediment
testing and analysis, implementation strategies for total maximum daily
load (TMDL) compliance, and Sediment Quality Objective (SQO)
application. Dr. Anghera has taught courses on TMDLs, toxicity testing,
SQO, and· ecological risk in contaminated sediments. Her projects often
focus on the integration of multiple lines of evidence to determine
sediment quality for dredged material, beneficial reuse of contaminated
sediments, and sediment TMDL implementation planning. Recent
projects include Port-Wide Sediment Management Plans, TMDL support,
water quality monitoring, and sediment and water quality
characterization within the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor in support of
the Water Resource Action Plan (WRAP).
EDUCATION
University of California, Los Angeles,
Ph.D., Environmental Health
Sciences, 2004
University of California, Santa
Barbara, B.S., Aquatic Biology, 1995
CERTIFICATIONS
40-hour HAZWOPER
CPR, AED, and First Aid
Project Experience
Harbor Toxics TMDL Support
Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles
San Pedro Bay, California
Harbor Toxics TMDL
Special Study
Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles
San Pedro Bay, California
Dr. Anghera is the Dominguez Channel and Greater Los Angeles and
Long Beach Toxic Pollutants Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL)
program manager for the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles
(Ports). Support services include developing innovative programs to
optimize the management of contaminated sediments and
designing TMDL long-term compliance strategies. Ongoing activities
include inter-port strategic planning, regulatory agencies
coordination, and implementation and monitoring program
development.
Dr. Anghera was the lead scientist for the characterized sediment
contaminant flux for Inner Harbor and Outer Harbor waterbodies to
support sediment TMDL development and implementation for the
Ports. She designed a statistically powerful sampling program to
characterize sediment, porewater, and overlying water to support
the development of models to estimate contaminant flux from the
sediment. She oversaw all elements of sampling and reporting and
continues to interface with regulators on data use and implications
of pending TMDLs.
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Shelly Anghera, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist
Project Experience (Continued)
Water Resource Action Plan
Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles
San Pedro Bay, California
Middle Harbor Redevelopment
Sediment Management Plan
Port of Long Beach
San Pedro Bay, California
Port-Wide Sediment
Management Plans
Port of Long Beach
San Pedro Bay, California
California State Sediment
Quality Objectives
Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles
San Pedro Bay, California
Dr. Anghera developed the sediment management component of
the WRAP for the Ports. Efforts included reviewing, summarizing,
and presenting all available sediment data. Summarizing regulatory
compliance standards was coupled with identifying priority
management areas to bring the Ports into compliance. Project
elements included developing sampling plans, water/sediment/soil
sample collection throughout the Harbor Complex, analyzing data,
reporting, presenting findings to stakeholders on behalf of the Ports,
and representing the Ports at regulatory meetings.
Dr. Anghera developed this project-specific Sediment Management
Plan with Port of Long Beach staff to illustrate the its decision process
for the management of sediments generated within and imported to
the Port of Long Beach, define management priorities for
contaminated and uncontaminated sediments, and define
procedures for the maintenance of water quality during the
movement (importing, mining, exporting, and disposal) of sediment.
The Middle Harbor redevelopment project is a large strategic
redevelopment project in the Port of Long Beach. Project elements
include dredging, importing, and placing materials.
Dr. Anghera developed a Port-Wide Sediment Management Plan to
illustrate the Port of Long Beach's decision process for the
management of sediments generated within the Port of Long Beach.
The document defines the management priorities for contaminated
and uncontaminated sediments as well as procedures for
maintaining water quality during the movement (importing, mining,
exporting, and disposal) of sediment. Dr. Anghera also led
development of the Contaminated Sediment Management Plan for
the long-term management of legacy contaminants in sediments to
ensure management actions are ecologically beneficial and
logistically and economically feasible. The plan details a process to
identify, prioritize, and manage chemically impacted sediments,
where necessary, to protect and improve benthic community health.
The plan uses a risk-based approach to assess benthic impacts due to
chemically mediated effects as a me.ans for determining the
magnitude and extent of possible cleanup actions. These
documents satisfy control measures identified in the WRAP.
Dr. Anghera developed a series of reports and comment documents
to determine implications of pending State SQOs. She analyzed all
available sediment and benthic infauna data under SQO
methodology. Dr. Anghera continues to attend TAC meetings on
behalf of the Ports and determine applicability of SQO tools into the
TMDL long-term monitoring program.
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Wendy Hovel, Ph.D.
Managing Environmental Scientist
Dr. Wendy Hovel expertise centers on sediment chemical characterization,
specialized studies (e.g.,.sediment contaminant flux and toxicological
investigations), beneficial reuse alternatives assessment, sediment toxicity
identification evaluations, sediment management, Total Maximum Daily
Loads (TMDLs), and bioaccumulation potential assessments. Dr. Hovel
EDUCATION
University of California at Davis,
Ph.D., Pharmacology and
Toxicology, 2005
College of William and Mary, M.S.,
Marine Science, 1999 has managed or provided technical advice on projects for many large,
multi-disciplinary sediment investigations, including those for a number
of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) districts and divisions (e.g., New
Orleans, New York/New Jersey, New England, Los Angeles, and
Wilmingtbn), Ports (e.g., Los Angeles and Long Beach), and the U.S. Navy
(e.g., Pacific Division [Naval Facilities Engineering Command]). As part of
these projects, specialized programs were required to statistically assess
sediment chemistry data gaps, delineate the spatial extent of sediment
contamination, or design and implement specialized analytical tests.
St. Olaf College, B.A., Biology, 1995
Project Experience
Project Experience Subheading (if applicable)
Total TMDL Support
Ports of Long Beach and Los Angels
San Pedro Bay, California
Dr. Hovel has been providing quality assurance/quality control
(QA/QC) oversight and managing projects that support the
implementation of a strategy that will allow the Ports of Long Beach
and Los Angeles (Ports) to comply with the TMDL for Los
Angeles/Long Beach Harbor. The strategy involves identifying
contaminant sources and establishing links between sources and
current sediment and tissue impairments such that effective
remedial actions can be taken. Specific projects that Dr. Hovel has
managed as part of this ongoing program include a comprehensive
data review, historical sediment compilation, fish tissue and mussel
chemistry datasets, and Programmatic Quality Assurance Project
Plan development. She is currently managing the data gap analysis
to support development of a conceptual site model and numerical
sediment transport, chemical fate, and bioaccumulation models
under development.
As part of the project, Dr. Hovel participates and presents ongoing
work at meetings with state regulatory agencies and other
stakeholders on behalf of the Ports to gain approval for each project
underway or proposed in support of the strategy to identify sources
and establish linkages to sediment and fish impairments.
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Wendy Hovel, Ph.D.
Managing Environmental Scientist
Project Experience (Continued)
Water Resources Action Plan
Sediment Quality Control
Measures
Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles
San Pedro Bay, California
Additional Chemical
Characterization of Sediments
along Berths 240X, Y, and Z
Port of Los Angeles
San Pedro Bay, California
San Pedro Waterfront Program,
Downtown and 7th Street
Water Cuts Soil and Sediment
Assessment
Port of Los Angeles
San Pedro Bay, California
Bight 2008 Toxicology
Committee and Testing
Program
Southern California Coastal Water
Research Project
Southern California
Dr. Hovel managed this literature review on the current sediment
conditions in the Harbor Complex, based on all surface sediment
characterization and monitoring studies conducted since 1987. She
worked with the Ports to summarize sediment chemistry data from
primary and gray literature, presented data in GIS maps and tables,
categorized mapped data using TMDL listing criteria/numeric targets
(cleanup criteria) and other applicable criteria, established sediment
quality data gaps and performed additional sampling and analysis
(Los Angeles Harbor only), and summarized data on both a project
site-specific and harbor-wide basis (based on State 303(d) listings
and potential TMDLs). She identified priority management areas to
bring the Ports into compliance.
Dr. Hovel led a team of scientists to design a sediment sampling
program to determine whether contamination from the landside
portion of a leasehold area was leaching contaminants into the water
and sediment on the waterside portion of the leasehold area. She
worked effectively with federal and state agencies to design this
program, manage the Sampling and Analysis Plan (SAP), and perform
sample size justification, mapping, QA, and statistical analyses.
Dr. Hovel managed this dredge material assessment for the Port of
Los Angeles to determine whether material (mostly sandy fill) was
suitable for ocean disposal or upland placement. She developed a
phased testing approach and SAP for evaluation of soil and sediment
in an upland area that was historically a wetland. She managed a soil
and sediment field sampling effort, coordinated phased results with
the Port of Los Angeles and state and federal regulatory agencies,
and managed analytical testing, a QA program, and reporting efforts.
Dr. Hovel assisted in the development of the toxicity testing
component of Southern California Bight 2008 Regional Monitoring
Project (Bight 2008) program for the County of San Diego and Co-
Permittees Regional Harbor Monitoring Program, a cooperative
regional-scale monitoring begun in 1994 that includes participation
by regulators and dischargers and was designed to address an
appropriate set of regional-scale questions.
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Chris Osuch
Senior Scientist
Chris Osuch is an senior scientist with more than 14 years of professional
experience. His areas of.technical expertise include dredge material
evaluations and management, sediment chemical characterizations,
water quality monitoring programs, aquatic toxicology, and Total
Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs). He has managed multiple dredge
material evaluations to determine suitability for open-water disposal,
beneficial reuse, or upland placement as well as water quality monitoring
projects to assess impacts of discharge. Mr. Osuch is currently functioning
as the field coordinator for Anchor QEA's California offices and has
managed· multiple sediment, water quality, and benthic
macroinvertebrate sampling programs. He has experience with a wide
variety of sampling techniques, including the use of a vibracore, piston
core, box core, diver core, Van Veen, Ekman, petite ponar, Seabird CTD,
and various water quality meters (e.g., YSI, Hydrolab, Orion).
EDUCATION
University o( California, Santa
Barbara, B.A., Environmental Studies,
1998
CERTIFICATIONS
40-hour HAZWOPER
CPR, AED, and First Aid
Project Experience
Harbor Toxics TMDL Support
Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles
San Pedro Bay, California
Mr. Osuch reviewed and provided comments to the Regional Water
Quality Control Board (RWQCB) on the developing Dominguez
Channel and Greater Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor Waters
TMDL. This effort included assessing data quality and
recommendations on usability. Mr. Osuch performed an assessment
of current sediment conditions within the Harbor Complex using
effects range low values and California Sediment Quality Objectives
(SQOs) to compare fiscal impacts for demonstrating TMDL
compliance. Benthic health was also assessed following SQO
procedures to demonstrate the overall health of the benthic
community and potential impacts should remediation occur. Mr.
Osuch performed the data review, oversaw development of maps,
performed SQO assessment and final categorization of preliminary
Bight '08 data, and prepared the technical memorandum
summarizing results. Mr. Osuch is currently performing a review of
existing harbor data to identify additional data collection needs and
to support the development of management tools for evaluating
strategies for long-term TMDL compliance.
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Chris Osuch
Senior Scientist
Project Experience (Continued)
West Basin (IR Site 7) Sediment
Remediation
Port of Long Beach
San Pedro Bay, California
Rhine Channel Contaminated
Sediment Cleanup
City of Newport Beach
Newport Beach, California
Mr. Osuch provided management and oversight of sediment
sampling in support of a remediation project at the former Long
Beach Naval Station and Shipyard. More than S00,000 cubic yards of
contaminated sediments were dredged from AOECs A and C. Mr.
Osuch led sediment grab sampling efforts throughout construction
to verify removal of chemically impacted sediments and identify
additional dredging needs. Following the completion of
construction, Mr. Osuch managed the post-dredge confirmatory
sampling program to determine if Sediment Management Objectives
(SMOs) were met. Mr. Osuch developed the Health and Safety Plan
(HASP), prepared the Sampling and Analysis Plan, led post-dredge
sediment core sampling and analysis, prepared the Field Report,
oversaw calculation of surface-weighted average concentrations to
determine compliance, and assisted with the development of the
Implementation Report.
Mr. Osuch provided management and oversight of water column
monitoring to assess water quality effects related to dredging of
contaminated sediments from Rhine Channel. Mr. Osuch prepared
the Water Quality Monitoring Plan (consisting of a Sampling and
Analysis Plan and Quality Assurance Project Plan), developed
standard operating procedures outlining equipment and methods
for each water quality sampling task, and prepared multiple reports
summarizing the data. In addition, Mr. Osuch developed the post-
dredge sediment characterization SAP and led post-dredge sediment
core and grab sampling to verify successful removal of chemically
impacted sediments. Mr. Osuch worked effectively with RWQCB and
California Coastal Commission to ensure the successful completion
of this project.
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Joy Dunay
Environmental Scientist
Joy Dunay is an environmental scientist with more than 14 years of EDUCATION
experience in the enviro.nmental industry, with an emphasis in analytical Binghamton University, B.A., Biology,
chemistry. She has extensive management experience with high-profile 7998
projects, including Superfund sites, which require a high level of data
scrutiny, interpretation, and reporting. Ms. Dunay manages the chemistry
group at Anchor QEA, which oversees laboratory and analytical method
selection, quality assurance (QA) of analytical data (collection and
analysis), and data validation using prescribed project documentation or
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) functional guidelines. Ms.
Dunay is a recognized leader in method development and
implementation of specialized chemistry studies. In addition to project
chemistry tasks, she leads the development of Programmatic Quality
Assurance Project Plans (PQAPPs), Sampling and Analysis Plans, and Data
Reports. Ms. Dunay also has extensive field experience using "clean
hands" techniques for the collection of sediment, soils, groundwater, and
air and often leads field audits with regulators.
Project Experience
Harbor Toxics TMDL
Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles
San Pedro Bay, California
Port of San Francisco
Maintenance Dredging
Program
Port of San Francisco
San Francisco Bay, California
This project consists of several compliance monitoring and special
studies tasks. Ms. Dunay is the QA manager and will coordinate with
various contractors and internal staff to ensure that field and
chemistry data quality meets the required standards (i.e., Surface
Water Ambient Monitoring Program) as described in the PQAPP.
Ms. Dunay served as the QA manager for several maintenance
dredging projects with the Port of San Francisco. She coordinated
laboratory efforts, ensured sampling parameters were compliant
with Green Book and Inland Testing Manual protocols, and ensured
detection limits met various disposal option requirements.
Additionally, she managed and verified data and wrote findings and
results in the Sampling and Analysis Report.
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Joy Dunay
Environmental Scientist
Project Experience (Continued)
Newtown Creek Remediation
Investigation and Feasibility
Study
Doy Pitney
New York City, New York.
Percival landing Environmental
Investigations
City of Olympia
Olympia, Washington
Eddon Boatyard Site
Remediation
City of Gig Harbor
Gig Harbor, Washington
Quendall Terminals Remedial
Investigation and Feasibility
Study
Renton, Washington
This Superfund project involves the phased collection of thousands
of highly contaminated samples to investigate appropriate
remediation activities. The testing program includes a full suite of
chemical analysis including high-resolution forensic testing and
emerging chemicals of concern. Ms. Dunay currently serves as the
project chemist with responsibilities including client group
presentations, QAPP writing, laboratory selection, and analytical
method (and cleanup) selection. Additionally, she led the air
monitoring program, which entailed developing a study design to
evaluate whether the Newtown Creek was a potential source for
specific chemicals within the surrounding area.
This project involves a voluntary Remedial Investigation and
Feasibility Study (Rl/FS) at two former upland fuel storage tank sites.
Ms. Dunay is the task manager and is writing the Rl/FS as well as
negotiating/selecting preferred cleanup alternatives with the
Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) for the site(s).
This project is in compliance with Model Toxics Control Act (MTCA)
criteria.
This project involved a cleanup action including placement of an
engineered cap. Ms. Dunay serves as the project manager and wrote
the Project Completion Report and Long-Term Monitoring Plan.
Effort involved coordination and communication with the client and
Ecology. In addition, she performs the annual long-term monitoring
sampling, which entails data evaluation against Sediment
Management Standards (SMS).
This Superfund project involved collecting hundreds of samples to
investigate appropriate remediation activities. Newer performance
methods were selected including solid phase microextraction
alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and porewater volatile
organic compounds. Ms. Dunay served as the QA manager with
responsibilities that included QAPP writing, laboratory selection,
analytical method selection, target analyte list section, and reporting
limit selection. Ms. Dunay worked with the laboratories to ensure
required performance evaluations were documented. She also wrote
up the QA section of the Data Report, which involved evaluating data
against data quality objectives. Additionally, she was part of the field
crew for the sampling effort that involved collecting and processing
sediment cores ..
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Laurel Menoche
Senior Data Analyst/Environmental Scientist
Laurel Menoche has 12 years of experience working with relational
databases within Micro~oft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual FoxPro,
and FoxPro, including designing, querying, importing, exporting,
maintaining, and providing quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC).
She is also proficient with Microsoft Excel, including running calculations
and statistics and creating charts and tables.
EDUCATION
University of Rhode Island, 8.5.,
Environmental Management, 1996
Project Experience
Newtown Creek Remedial
Investigation and Feasibility
Study
Day Pitney
New York City, New York
Integrated Remediation,
Shoreline Restoration, and
Berth Improvements at Gasco
Site
NW Natural/Kopper
Portland, Oregon
Port Gamble Water System
Olympic Property Group, LLC
Kitsap County, Washington
Ms. Menoche is the data lead. This Superfund project involves the
phased collection of thousands of highly contaminated samples to
investigate appropriate remediation activities. The testing program
includes a full suite of chemical analysis including high resolution
forensic testing and emerging chemicals of concern.
Ms. Menoche is the data lead. Anchor QEA is leading a Remedial
Investigation/ Feasibility Study and remedial design of the NW
Natural Gasco site on the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. The
sediments, soils, and groundwater at the site, a former oil gasification
facility, are impacted with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs),
cyanide, and some metals.
Ms. Menoche is the data lead. Anchor QEA provided ongoing water
system planning and design tasks for the town of Port Gamble in
Kitsap County, Washington. Water system planning was completed
in accordance with State Department of Health Standards as part of
an ongoing planning effort to enable redevelopment of the town.
Work included evaluation and sizing of water system upgrades,
evaluation of well sources and storage facilities, and development of
an improvement plan. Anchor QEA staff also worked with the water
system owner to submit a successful application for a Drinking Water
State Revolving Fund Loan. Ongoing work has included evaluation
of water system capacity and improvements for different
development scenarios.
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Brittany Geisler
Environmental Scientist
Brittany Geisler is an environmental scientist with more than 6 years of
professional experience •. Her areas of technical expertise include water
quality monitoring programs and sediment chemical characterizations.
She has participated in multiple water quality monitoring projects to
assess impacts of discharge as well as dredge material evaluations to
determine suitability for open-water disposal, beneficial reuse, or upland
placement. She has experience with a wide variety of sampling
techniques, including the use of a vibracore, piston core, box core, Van
Veen, and various water quality meters (e.g., Hydrolab, Horiba) and water
collection equipment (e.g., Van Dorn).
EDUCATION
University of California Irvine, B.A.,
Social Ecology, 2006
CERTIFICATIONS
40-hour HAZWOPER
CPR, AED, and First Aid
California Department of Boating
and Waterways Safe Boater
Certification
Project Experience
Harbor Toxics TMDL Support
Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles
San Pedro Bay, California
Alamitos Bay Marina
Rehab ii itation
City of Long Beach
Long Beach, California
Regional General Permit 54
Reauthorization
City of Newport Beach
Newport Beach, California
Supplemental Remedial
Investigation
Duwamish Shipyard, Inc.
Seattle, Washington
Ms. Geisler is currently supporting the Ports of Long Beach and Los
Angeles with coordination, moderation, or documentation of several
ongoing groups, including the Harbor Toxics Working Group and the
Greater Harbor Waters Regional Monitoring Coalition.
Ms. Geisler assisted with sediment investigation for Basins 2, 3, 5, and
7 and water quality monitoring during dredging for Basin 5.
Ms. Geisler assisted with the sediment characterization for more than
50 stations throughout Newport Harbor in preparation for
reauthorization of Regional General Permit 54.
Ms. Geisler assisted with stormwater and catch basin solids sampling,
surface sediment collection, and subsurface sediment
characterization to address data gaps as required by the Washington
State Department of Ecology.
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Dustin Fellers
Environmental Scientist
Dustin Fellers is an environmental scientist with nearly 6 years of
professional experience: His areas of technical expertise include water
quality monitoring programs and sediment chemical characterizations.
EDUCATION
Bethel University, B.A., Spanish, 2006
CERTIFICATIONS
40-hour HAZWOPER
CPR, AED, and First Aid
He has participated in multiple water quality monitoring projects to assess
impacts of discharge as well as dredge material evaluations to determine
suitability for open-water disposal, beneficial reuse, or upland placement.
He has experience with a wide variety of sampling techniques, including
the use of a vibracore, piston core, box core, Van Veen, and various water
quality meters (e.g., Hydrolab, Horiba) and water collection equipment
(e.g., Van Dorn).
California Department of Boa ling
and Waterways Safe Boater
Certification
Project Experience
Lower Newport Bay Federal
Dredging Program
City of Newport Beach
Newport Beach, California
Alamitos Bay Marina
Rehab ii itation
City of Long Beach
Long Beach, California
Regional General Permit 54
Reauthorization
City of Newport Beach
Newport Beach, California
Rhine Channel Contaminated
Sediment Cleanup
City of Newport Beach
Newport Beach, California
Mr. Fellers assisted with water column monitoring to assess water
quality effects related to dredging of sediments from Lower Newport
Bay. Monitoring consisted of field measurements (i.e., temperature,
dissolved oxygen, pH, turbidity, transmissivity, salinity) and water
sampling for laboratory analysis before and during dredging
activities.
Mr. Fellers assists with sediment investigations and water quality
monitoring before, during, and after dredging for each of the basins.
Mr. Fellers prepares weekly and monthly reports summarizing data.
Mr. Fellers assisted with sediment characterization for more than 50
stations throughout Newport Harbor in preparation for
reauthorization of Regional General Permit 54.
Mr. Fellers assisted with monitoring activities for the Rhine Channel
contaminated sediment cleanup project. Mr. Fellers performed
water column monitoring to assess water quality effects related to
dredging.
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Bonnie Ahr
Environmental Scientist Intern
Bonnie Ahr is an environmental scientist intern who is currently finishing
her thesis work on habit;,at utilization and movement behavior of white
croaker in the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor. Ms. Ahr specializes in fish
biology, behavior, and movement. She has assisted on a wide range of
remediation, water quality monitoring, and sediment projects both in the
field and in background research. Ms. Ahr has participated in an array of
field work involving fish collection and surveying including beach seining,
transect and quad rat surveys, aerial surveys, and fish tracking using
acoustic telemetry.
EDUCATION
California State University Long
Beach, M.S., Biology, In Progress
Arizona State University, BS., Life
Sciences, 201 O
Project Experience
Fish Tracking Special Study
Phase 1
San Pedro Bay
Harbor Toxics TMDL Support
San Pedro Bay
Ms. Ahr is part of the white croaker fish tracking team from California
State University Long Beach using acoustic telemetry to quantify fish
movement and behavior within the harbor. She caught and
surgically implanted acoustic transmitters in 100-plus white croakers
in the harbor and monitored fish movement using both a shipborne
receiver and passive stationary receivers. Ms. Ahr constructed,
deployed, maintained, and collected data from passive receivers and
temperature data loggers for the year the receivers were in the field.
Ms. Ahr also has extensive small boat handling experience that
includes actively tracking tagged fish for continuous 24-hour periods.
Ms. Ahr has been leading the data analysis of the fish tracking data,
which focuses on modeling fish habitat selection and utilization. Ms.
Ahr has also been heavily involved with the Phase II fish tracking
study currently in progress and has assisted in the field with the
collection of white croaker and halibut as well as maintenance and
collection of data from passive receivers currently deployed.
Ms. Ahr assisted with literature reviews of the biobaseline studies
conducted in 1988, 2000, and 2008 for vegetation and riprap
coverage. Ms. Ahr has also assisted in GIS support for the Total
Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program including digitizing riprap
coverage in the harbor, benthic infauna interpolations, and fish
movement ana_lysis. Ms. Ahr has provided fish movement and
habitat analysis for use in the bioaccumulation model currently
under development. She also assisted with the writing of the data
gap analysis report-specifically regarding fish growth rates,
respiration rates, diet, and movement.
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