TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Bruce Moe, City Manager
FROM:
Stephanie Katsouleas, Public Works Director
Shawn Igoe, Utilities Manager
SUBJECT:Title
Receive this Report on the City's Municipal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Storm Water Requirements, Activities and Expenditures (Public Works Director Katsouleas).
RECEIVE REPORT
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Receive this report regarding the City's Municipal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Storm Water Permit requirements, activities and expenditures.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
The City's total annual budget for storm water-related activities to comply with the NPDES Storm Water Permit (Permit) totals $1.8 million, inclusive of a variety of expenditures across multiple divisions within Public Works and other City departments. The attached table provides more specific information of the City's storm water funding allocations, such as street sweeping, landscape maintenance, employee training, storm water monitoring, contract services and capital improvement projects. Collectively, these efforts help reduce pollutants from entering the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4).
BACKGROUND:
In December 2012, the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Board) issued an updated 5-year Municipal NPDES Storm Water Permit that requires cities and counties to implement Phase I requirements addressing three fundamental elements:
i. A requirement to effectively prohibit non-storm water discharges through the MS4;
ii. Requirements to implement controls to reduce the discharge of pollutants to the maximum extent practicable; and
iii. Other provisions the Regional Water Board has determined appropriate for the control of such pollutants.
Manhattan Beach has been subject to Phase I requirements since 1992 through a series of permits issued by the Regional...
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