Public Works Department
Coastal Clean-Up Day
Every year the Public Works Department hosts a Coastal Clean-up Day Event in September.
Coastal Clean-up 2010 will be held at the Industrial Way Pond site at the end of Industrial Way off Highway 113 on September 25th from 9 a.m. to noon.
Please contact Martha Jensen at 707-678-7051, ext. 105.if you would like to volunteer or need further information.
Hall Park Phase Improvements:
In February 2004, The City Council went to bid for construction of Hall Park Phase II Improvements.
Phase I improvements included the covered roller hockey/soccer/basketball facility, skate park, outdoor
basketball court, a multi-use field, and ancillary landscaping, infrastructure and roadway improvements.
Phase II improvements added a lighted Little League Complex and multi-use field, more landscaping, and
an additional segment of the loop road/parking.
Lighting and Landscape Report:
As part of the effort to fund municipal services after the passage of the proposition 13, use of landscaping
and lighting districts has emerged. The City of Dixon has one district, with many individual zones. The
districts provide maintenance for improvements such as sound walls, landscaped street buffers, subdivision
entry treatments, street lighting, etc. Each year, the City is required to establish a budget for each of these
zones. City staff provides the primary manpower for the ongoing maintenance. Residential properties in the
individual landscape and lighting zones pay annual assessments ranging from $7 to approximately $135, while
commercial property rates range from $35 to $230 per acre, depending upon the extent and nature of the
areas maintained.
Master Drainage Report:
The history of storm drainage in the Dixon Area is highly complex and continues to be a perplexing problem
involving multiple jurisdictions and hundreds of agricultural and rural property owners. An apparent
long-standing tradition has been to move storm water downstream to other properties and/or other
jurisdiction without full acknowledgement of the responsibilities of upstream storm water generators to
fully address the consequences of their activities. There has been an innumerable efforts to describe and
quantify the conditions. Over the past few years, the City of Dixon has completed a master drainage report
in cooperation with several local agencies and facilitation by the Solano County Water Agency (SCWA).
We are working to identify the most appropriate and cost effective method for Dixon to responsibly address
its drainage issue, and at the same time, improve regional drainage. A joint Powers Agreement came before
the City Council approved in 2005 and a regional watershed JPA was approved. Identified regional projects
have been recommended and are under consideration for approval.
Recycling/AB 939:
The City of Dixon, as all the jurisdictions in the State of California, has been mandated to reduce its overall
waste stream going to the landfill by 50% by the year 2000. As of 2005, our waste stream reduction is at the
68% level. This was achieved primarily through implementation of the separated yard waste program in 1995.
The City, through its franchise waste hauler, Dixon Sanitary Service, a subsidiary of Norcal, also encourages
recycling of newspaper, plastics, glass, aluminum, steel, motor oil, cardboard, office paper and hazardous
materials. The recycling center, located at First Street and C Street, is operated by Dixon Sanitary Service.
Operation hours are Tuesday-Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (707) 678-4026.
Refuse Franchise:
The City of Dixon franchises refuse service to Dixon Sanitary Service. The original franchise agreement was
entered into in the late 1970’s and the current agreement in 1996. The franchise agreement has an eight-year
rolling term, which provides for a phase out commencing in any year in which the Council determines on or
before October 1 that it desires to phase out the franchise relationship. There is a 10% Franchise Fee.
Wastewater:
Over eight years ago, the City completed an expansion project to enlarge the wastewater evaporation/percolation
basins used for primary treatment and storage. Five years ago, we completed a project to upgrade the
headworks (intake) facilities at the wastewater plant, which is five miles south of Dixon along Pedrick Road.
The wastewater facility is an unlined stabilization system limited to primary treatment. The water is percolated
or evaporated, and is not discharged to any surface waters. We currently operate under a Regional Water Quality
Control Board cease and desist order, which requires us to expand our wastewater treatment disposal system to
accommodate existing flows, prevent inundation from bypassed overflows and allow a minimum of 5 years of
growth with the annual flow consistent with 100-year winter storm conditions. Groundwater salt build-up is also
an issue. We are in the process of upgrades to the wastewater treatment and disposal system and design an
implementation of system expansion. We have approximately 120 acres of land, which is currently used for
overland flow disposal, which will be utilized as additional ponds. Recent meetings with Regional Water Quality
Control Board staff seemed positive with respect to resolving the treatment capacity questions. Creative alternatives
will have to be explored to cost effectively address groundwater salt level issues. The City is in the design process
to upgrade the headworks to meet the requirements of the current cease and desist order to expand the capacity to
meet general plan build out of 2.5 million gallons per day. The City plans to transport treated wastewater to a site yet
determined to mitigate salinity in the wastewater at the current plant site to a location that has higher existing
groundwater salinity than the salinity levels of the treated wastewater from the current wastewater treatment plant.
• Solano County's Recycling Guide: www.recycle-guide.com
