TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Bruce Moe, City Manager
FROM:
Erick Lee, Public Works Director
Katherine Doherty, City Engineer
Tim Birthisel, Senior Civil Engineer
SUBJECT:Title
Consideration of a Resolution Adopting the 2017 Updated Greater Los Angeles County Region Integrated Regional Water Management Plan to Enable the City to Apply for Proposition 1 Integrated Regional Water Management Implementation Grant Funding for the Total Maximum Daily Load Trash Treatment Project (Public Works Director Lee).
ADOPT RESOLUTION NO. 22-0123
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt Resolution No. 22-0123 adopting the 2017 Updated Greater Los Angeles County Region Integrated Regional Water Management Plan to enable the City to apply for Proposition 1 (Prop 1) Integrated Regional Water Management Implementation Grant Funding for the Total Maximum Daily Load Trash Treatment Project.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
There is no fiscal impact associated with the adoption of this resolution.
BACKGROUND:
Agencies in Los Angeles County have long recognized the importance of regional collaboration in water management and acknowledge that integration and cost-sharing is the key to meeting the area's future water resource management challenges. Los Angeles County agencies regularly work across jurisdictional boundaries to implement regional projects and programs that address multiple water resource management issues including recycled water, stormwater capture, water use efficiency, and many others.
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) created the Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) Program to encourage regional strategies for managing water resources and to fund the planning and implementation of projects that support management of water supply, water quality, environmental interests, drought protection, flood protection, and...
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