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Report regarding a Resolution approving Budget Amendment Number 25.053 to proceed with the Stormwater Trash Capture Devices Phase 2 Project (sd2502) and development of a Stormwater Asset Management Plan. (Lawrence Henriquez, Senior Civil Engineer)
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RECOMMENDATION
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Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a Resolution approving Budget Amendment Number 25.053 appropriating $250,000 from the Storm Water Fund (Fund 740) to proceed with the Storm Water Trash Capture Devices Phase 2 Project and to develop a Stormwater Asset Management Plan.
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BACKGROUND
Municipal Regional Permit
The Municipal Stormwater Program regulates stormwater discharges from municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s). An MS4 is a conveyance system designed to collect and convey stormwater that is owned by a city, town, or other public entity.
Urbanized areas increase stormwater runoff because impervious surfaces like roads, parking lots, and rooftops prevent stormwater from infiltrating, or soaking, into the ground. Urbanization also increases the variety and amount of pollutants in stormwater runoff. MS4s collect and convey this urban runoff and, in most cases, discharge directly to surface waters without treatment. Urban runoff contributes significant quantities of suspended solids, heavy metals, petroleum hydrocarbons, and other pollutants to surface waters of the region. However, if runoff is properly managed, those stormwater pollutants can be attenuated, and stormwater can be a valuable resource for uses such as groundwater recharge.
The Water Boards are actively involved in initiatives to improve the management of stormwater as a resource. Through permit requirements that promote low impact development (LID) techniques, green infrastructure (GI) planning, and other effective controls to prevent or minimize the discharge of pollutants contained in stormwater runoff to waters of the State.
The Water Board issued county-wide municipal stormwate...
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