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Revision as of 16:39, 1 April 2012

A watershed-related issue examined by the ENVS 560/L Watershed Systems class at CSUMB.

The City of Pacific Grove is located on the NW portion of the Monterey Peninsula. The city contains multiple watershed including the Greenwood Park Watershed which is highly urbanized producing large volumes of stormflow runoff which is discharged into the Monterey Bay ASBS. Approximately 43% of the watershed is covered by impervious surfaces and maintains an average slope of 8% which can result in minimal percolation of seasonal precipitation. Map by: Kirk Post

Summary

Stormwater

Low-impact development

BMPs

Location

The City of Pacific Grove, California

Impervious landcover on the Monterey Peninsula highlighting the Greenwood Park Watershed. Map by: Kirk Post

Stakeholders[1]

  • City of Pacific Grove
  • Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
  • Monterey Coastkeeper
  • Tourism Industry
  • MPAs
  • Friends of the Otter
  • Areas of Special Biological Significance on Monterey Peninsula (ASBS)
  • California Stormwater Quality Association (CASWQA)

Regulatory Background: Laws and Policies

Federal

  • United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)
    • Clean Water Act: Amendment Sect:402(p) established framework for stormwater discharge permits and regulations under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit system.
      • The NPDES permit system under the CWA maintains both Phase I and Phase II municipal Storm drain (MS4s) operators to comply and obtain NPDES permits.
Phase I-As of 1990 permits include municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s) defined as medium or large, serving >100,000 people.
Phase II-Beginning in 1999 permits include previously unregulated and small MS4s to comply with NPDES permits within the NPDES Phase II program
Phase III-Dry weather diversion
  • Porter-Cologne Act
  • Marine Life Protection Act

State

Region

  • Monterey Regional Storm Water Management Program (MRSWMP)
  • Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board (CCRWQCB)
  • Regional Wastewater Pollution Control Agency (MRWPCA)

Local

  • Cease and Desist from Discharging Waste to Areas of Special Biological Significance (ASBS) in Violation of Prohibitions Prescribed by the State Water Resources Control Board (February 11, 2005)[2]

Timeline

UNDER CONSTRUCTION Regulatory and Program Timeline ImageSize = width:160 height:550 PlotArea = width: 25 height:530 left:50 bottom:10 DateFormat = yyyy Period = from:1919 till:1991 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1920

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 color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:S shift:(25,0)
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 from:start till:1922 shift:(,15)   text:Vladimir~Ilyich~Lenin
 from:1922  till:1953 shift:(,5)    text:Josef~Stalin
 from:1953  till:1964 shift:(,5)    text:Nikita~Khrushchev
 from:1964  till:1982 shift:(,5)    text:Leonid~Brezhnev
 from:1982  till:1984 shift:(,-12)  text:Yuri~Andropov
 from:1984  till:1985 shift:(,4)    text:Konstantin~Chernenko fontsize:XS
 from:1985  till:end  shift:(,10)   text:Mikhail~Gorbachev

Water Quality Monitoring and Science

Data Collection Programs

  • Urban Watch Report-The program was initiated in 1997 as a collaborative management and education tool supported by Coastal Watershed Council, the City of Monterey, and the Water Quality

Protection Program of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary [3][4]

Organizations and NGOs

  • National Water Quality Inventory

Remediation

  • Monitoring of stormwater quality within the City of Pacific Grove is performed by multiple entities including:
    • Citizen Watershed Monitoring Network organizes annual First Flush
    • Urban Watch, and Snapshot monitoring activities for the Monterey region that document stormwater quality conditions for the first storm of the season
    • Monterey Bay Sanctuary Citizen Watershed Monitoring Network (Citizen)[5]

Management Strategies

  • Final Report produced by MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc.(July 2006) for Phase III dry weather and stormflow runoff into Pacific Grove area of ASBS.[6]
  • Monterey Regional Stormwater Management Program (MRSWMP)
  • Monterey Bay Sanctuary Citizen Watershed Monitoring Network(MBSCWMN)[7]
  • Monterey Peninsula, Carmel Bay, and South Monterey Bay Integrated Regional Water Management Regional Acceptance Process Materials[8]
  • Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for the Monterey Regional Storm Water Pollution Prevention Program[9][10]
  • Model Urban Runoff Program: A How-To guide for Developing Urban Runoff Programs for Small Municipalities. July 1998 (revised February 2002, by the California Coastal Commission)[11]
  • Urban Forest Management Plan. By RBF consulting.[12]
  • Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS)[14]
  • Proposition 84 ASBS Grant (The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coast Protection Bond Act of 2006)[15]
  • First Flush Event Monitoring by the Sanctuary Citizen Watershed Monitoring Network (Began 2000)[16]
  • Request For Proposals: Design, Environmental Review and Permitting of a Stormwater Treatment System at Greenwood Park[17]
  • Report and data on Pacific Grove Stormwater Outfalls[18]
  • Greenwood Park Monitoring[19]

[1]

  • Best Management Practices (BMPs)
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The City of Pacific Grove and Monterey County participants in the Monterey Regional Storm Water Management Program have created have established municipality specific contact diagrams to more effectively create and implement BMPs.[20]
    • Low Impact Development (LID) technologies implemented as Best Management Practices BMPs throughout the watershed.

Metadata

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 CSUMB Class ENVS 660: Pugh K, Arenas R, Cubanski P, Lanctot M, Purdy A, Bassett R, Smith J, Hession S, Stoner K, Ashbach R, Alberola G, Jacuzzi N, Watson F. 2011. Stormwater outfall watershed delineation, land cover characteristics, and recommended priorities for monitoring and mitigation in the City of Pacific Grove, California. The Watershed Institute, California State Monterey Bay, Publication No. WI-2011-02, 74 pages. http://ccows.csumb.edu/pubs/reports/CSUMB_ENVS660_ClassReport_PGStormwater_120306.pdf
  2. ↑ http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/centralcoast/board_info/agendas/2005/feb/item28/item28_2005_0008_cdo_pg_2_03_05_final.pdf
  3. ↑ http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/centralcoast/board_info/agendas/2005/feb/item28/item28_2005_0008_cdo_pg_2_03_05_final.pdf
  4. ↑ http://www.monterey.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=vPF8dkMtHbY%3d&tabid=927&mid=5113&language=en-US
  5. ↑ http://montereybay.noaa.gov/monitoringnetwork/about_us.html
  6. ↑ MACTEC Report
  7. ↑ Monterey Bay Sanctuary Citizen Watershed Monitoring Network http://montereybay.noaa.gov/monitoringnetwork/pdf/ff2011.pdf
  8. ↑ Monterey Peninsula, Carmel Bay, and South Monterey Bay Integrated Regional Water Management Regional Acceptance Process Materials http://www.mpwmd.dst.ca.us/Mbay_IRWM/RAP.pdf
  9. ↑ Memorandum of Agreement for the Monterey Regional Storm Water Pollution Prevention Program http://www.ci.pg.ca.us/pubworks/mrswmp/MRSWMP_a.pdf
  10. ↑ Monterey Regional Stormwater Management Program http://www.montereysea.org/index.php
  11. ↑ Monterey Bay Sanctuary Citizen Watershed Monitoring Network http://www.co.monterey.ca.us/msea/Literature/Documents/MURP.pdf
  12. ↑ Urban Forest Management Plan. By: RBF consulting add link http://www.ci.pg.ca.us/pubworks/4.Pacific%20Grove%20UFMP_Draft%20Outline.pdf
  13. ↑ http://www.ci.pg.ca.us/pubworks/iTree.pdf
  14. ↑ http://montereybay.noaa.gov/
  15. ↑ http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/grants_loans/asbs/docs/news0611.pdf
  16. ↑ http://sanctuarysimon.org/monterey/sections/waterQuality/project_info.php?projectID=100141&sec=wq
  17. ↑ http://www.ci.pg.ca.us/RFP%20Wetland_GreenwoodPark.pdf
  18. ↑ http://ccows.csumb.edu/pubs/proj_pubs/2011/ENVS660_PGStormwater/index.htm
  19. ↑ Watson, F., Krone-Davis, P., and Smith, J. 2012 in prep. Streamflow gaging at Greenwood Park, Pacific Grove, California: January-April 2012. Report prepared for Monterey Bay Sanctuary Foundation and the City of Pacific Grove. The Watershed Institute, California State University Monterey Bay, Publication No. WI-2012-3. Available from: http://ccows.csumb.edu/pubs/
  20. ↑ http://monterey.org/en-us/departments/planspublicworks/engineering/stormwaterprogram/mrswmp.aspx

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