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Home My WebLink AboutSS2 - Water Quality ProgramsSZ Review of Programs, and Grants re: Water Quality City of Newport Beach City Council Study Session Tuesday, January 22, 2008 What are our issues.) ■ 2 of 34 "Areas of Special Biological Significance (ASBSs) " statewide are in NB: ❑ Little Corona ❑ Crystal Cove (Morning Canyon to Moro Canyon) ■ SWRCB is preparing to condition the City on allowable pollutant discharges from the coastal canyons (FIB, metal, pesticides, herbicides, nutrients). The conditions will in part be based on the results of the BIGHT '08 study. What are our issues.) ■ City -wide over - irrigation practices are creating a multitude of problems: ❑ Fire hazard in the coastal canyons ❑ Over - irrigation saturates slope clay layers (Blue Bird. Canyon type slope failure) • Groundwater exfiltration saturating street subgrade • Groundwater seeping into garages and basements ❑ Runoff carrying FIB and drains and canyons and beach areas — will future of -pipe treatment? pollutants into storm then to the Bay and regulations require end- What are our issues? ■ UNB and LNB have 4 complex Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), each with schedules, studies, regulations,. costs: ❑ Sediment ❑ Nutrients ❑ Fecal Coliform ❑ Toxic Pollutants ■ Emerging Threats: ❑ Synthetic Pyrethroids ❑ Endocrine Inhibitors What are our issues (cont'd)? ■ Three areas of LNB do not me bacteria (AB 411) • 331d Street • Old Newport Boulevard • 38th Street et State standards for ■ Need for Significant and Extensive Dredging — UNB and LN B • Eelgrass • Funding ■ Copper Paint may be the prime contributor for copper contamination in the Bay and ASBSs. ■ Renewal & Implementation of next term of 5 -year NPDES Permit ...... .� ��_ w U. ¥. �� m What Programs Are Underway • Expanded street sweeping, including daily sweeping in some areas of town; • A large -scale catch basin screening program — keeps trash and debris out of the storm drain system and which requires manual installation and removal periods depending on the season; • A newly- constructed WQ bioswale near one of our last remaining water problem areas in Newport Bay; • Better science and education at the new Back Bay Science Center; ■ A strong sanitary system overflow (SSO) prevention plan, which includes good investments in our Wastewater Master Plan, CCTV -ing of our system, and one of the region's most aggressive hot spot and lift station cleaning programs; <, �, L� 1', ;. t �h F 4 .� ". 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What Programs are Underway (cont'd) • Coastal -Bay Water Quality Committee; • The hiring and cross- training of a staff of 5 within our Code and Water Quality Enforcement Division. • Citations for commercial areas and auto - detailers that do not properly reclaim wash water; • Last year of sponsoring 5th Grade education program on water quality w /NHNM; • Sponsoring an AP Environmental Science Class at CdM High School that incorporate our watershed issues; • Full compliance with our NPDES requirements, including multiple inspections of various businesses (three oC cities were fined this year....); • Supporting two storm drain -to -sewer diversions: ❑ Newport Dunes & Pelican Point What Programs are Underway (cont'd) • A large -scale "smart" irrigation controller program focused on the ASBS watersheds, where residents, businesses and HOAs receive discounts or free evapotranspiration (TT ") controllers; • Major restoration projects that incorporate water quality- protective principles into the design, including at Big Canyon Creek, Morning Canyon & Buck Gully Canyon Stabilization Projects (drains into the Newport Beach ASBS); • A newly- updated General Plan; • Install /maintain trash booms in and around Newport Bay, including on -water removal of trash on "a routine basis plus beachside removal following storm events; • An "adopt -a- beach" program for trash and debris removal on many of our ocean and bay beaches. What Programs are underway (cont.) • Household water usage monitoring • Canyon flow and WQ monitoring • Model landscape program • Tiered water rate development • Draft Irrigation and Landscape Ordinance • Tidepool Public Use Study • Mussel Bioaccumulation Study Grant Projects ■ Newport Coast Watershed /ASBSs • Runoff Reduction Program • NC Watershed Program (capital projects) ❑ ASBS — Assessment and Implementation ❑ Buck Gully — Canyon Erosion Control Project (in design) ❑ Buck Gully Road Maintenance & WQ Wetlands Project (Poppy Avenue) (in construction) ■ CALFED Water Conservation Grant Grant Projects ■ Integrated Regional Watershed Management Plan (IRWMP) — Phase I and Final IRWMPs • Harbor Area Management Plan • UNB Management Plan • Watershed -wide Water Management Plan ■ The water management plan includes the HAMP and UNB plans ■ Projects listed in the Water Management Plan are eligible for Prop. 84 grant funding (Big Canyon Creek) Grant Projects (cont'd) ■ Big Canyon Creek Restoration Project ■ Back Bay Science Center ■ Irrigation Improvements ❑ Newport Coast — slopes, medians ❑ Citywide — parks, medians ❑ Private property owner program Likely Grant, Funding ■ Prop. 50 - Round 2: Special funding for ASBS protection. Grant funding requests include: • Bay Dredging • Serrano Creek Stabilization • Copper paint pollutant pilot projects • Assessments for the Bight '08 Study (in anticipation of SWRCB monitoring requirements) • Buck Gully WQ wetlands project • Tide Pool Public Impact Reduction Project Other Efforts ■ Secure funding for.UNB and LNB Dredging ❑ Council Member Daigle's help ❑ Harbor Commission /Harbor Resources Ideas • Revisiting the 1991 Southern California Eelgrass Mitigation Policy • Work with County, upstream partners to renew NPDES Permit • Participate in the Bight '08 Study of the ASBSs • Work with SWRCB re: Interpretation of the California Ocean Plan and ASBSs ❑ We don't think there is any way to completely eliminate pollutants in stormwater — even in dry- weather flows. ❑ Sediment — both a good thing and a "pollutant." Principles • Council should review our project priorities annually via Water Quality Master Plan • Within WQMP, staff needs to propose priorities reflecting: ❑ Community interest ❑ Regulatory directives (SWRCB, Regional Board) • Long -term maintenance obligations • General Fund matching requirements Questions &Comments