Cottage Grove City Shop
Street Location: 271 N 14th Street, Cottage Grove
Activity at this Location: The City of Cottage Grove operates a public works maintenance facility at this location.
Discharges: The Cottage Grove City Shop has Clean Water Act permit coverage for industrial stormwater discharges, which are regulated under Oregon’s statewide general industrial stormwater permit, which was issued by and is administered by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).
Oregon’s statewide general industrial stormwater permit allows permit holders to discharge industrial stormwater provided that they prepare and implement a stormwater pollution control plan, perform required monitoring of discharges, and report the results of this monitoring to the DEQ. Oregon’s statewide general industrial stormwater permit includes “benchmarks” for total copper, total lead, total zinc, pH, total suspended solids, and total oil & grease, and if monitoring of stormwater discharges reveals exceedance of any of these benchmarks, the permit holder must review and, if necessary, revise its stormwater pollution control plan accordingly. The full text of Oregon’s statewide general industrial stormwater permit can be viewed in a PDF file at the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Web site.
Where Discharges Go: It appears that discharges from this facility flow into the Coast Fork Willamette River at mile 21.4406.
Compliance Summary: OCWAP reviewed the water quality file for this facility at the DEQ’s Eugene office in 2003, and this review appeared to indicate that the city had violated its permit and the Clean Water Act by failing to submit a stormwater pollution control plan to the DEQ, and by failing to submit stormwater monitoring reports for the 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, and 2002-2003 monitoring periods. OCWAP contacted the City of Cottage Grove on behalf of Sierra Club about these violations in November of 2003, which prompted the City to submit its stormwater pollution control plan to the DEQ and by conducting stormwater monitoring before the end of November. The City indicated in a letter to OCWAP that it was unable to locate any monitoring results other than the November, 2003 results for the period 1999-2003.
OCWAP subsequently discovered in 2005 that the City failed to submit monitoring results for 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 to the DEQ and contacted City of Cottage Grove Director of Public Works Robert Sisson on September 6, 2005 about this. The City responded by submitting 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 monitoring results to the DEQ on September 16, 2005.
Last updated: Aug 28, 2008