Transcript Powerpoint-MS4-Permit-Update_Module-2_2014_-Dec-22

MUNICIPAL STORMWATER PERMIT
UPDATE & TIMELINE
Presented by Nick del Valle
County of San Diego
Watershed Protection Program
Agenda
Status on Permit Implementation Activities:
• WQIP
• Jurisdictional Runoff Management Plan
• BMP Design Manual
• Optional Watershed Area Management Analysis
• Timelines & Opportunities for Engagement
• WPO & ERP
• IGP
New Requirements
• Water Quality
WQIP
Improvement Plan
• Jurisdictional Runoff
Management Plan
JRMP
WMAA
• Best Management
Plan Manual
• Watershed
BMP Manual
Management Area
Analysis
Engaging Stakeholders:
Water Quality Improvement Plans (WQIP)
County Lead
(8 total)
Due June 2015
WQIP Goals & Strategies
Example goal:
• Eliminate ‘x’ % of persistently
flowing outfalls
Example Strategy:
• Develop a residential outreach
program to help reduce or
eliminate flows attributed to overirrigation
Jurisdiction Runoff Management Plan
Programs & Strategies
Reduce the discharge of pollutants from storm drains
Examples:
• Street Sweeping
• Education & Outreach
• Municipal BMPs
• Residential Outreach
BMP Design Manual
Requirements for standard projects &
Priority Development Projects (PDPs)
• Replaces SUSMP
• Joint Effort - San Diego Copermittees
Public
Workshops
June 10, 11
2014
Draft BMP
Design
Manual
10/24/2014
CoPermittee
comments
due
11/18/2014
Draft
Manual
Public
Review
February
2015
Final
Manual
Local
Adoption
June 2015
Dec 2015
Optional Alternative Compliance
Optional Watershed Management Area Analysis (WMAA)
Regional Mapping Effort
• Mapping (Soils, Channels, Slopes)
• HMP Exemptions
• Opportunities for Alternative Compliance Projects
• Developed Template for Watersheds
To Use Offsite Alternative Compliance...
• Must have completed the WMAA
• Jurisdictional Alternative Compliance Program
• Determine greater water quality benefit
• Program(s) may allow implementation or
funding via in-lieu fee
• Voluntary agreement between jurisdiction/developer
• Built within 4 years of first PDP occupancy
Section E.3.c.(1)(b)., (1)(a). and (3).
Special Studies: Wet & Dry weather
San Diego River Dry-Weather Bacteria Source Tracking:
• Determine Sources of Bacteria During dry weather
• Using Genetic Tracking Technology
Pilot Surfer Wet Weather Epidemiology:
• Links Between Levels of Bacteria & Illness in Surfers in Winter
Bacteria Reference Watershed:
• Determine Naturally-Occurring Levels of Bacteria in Undisturbed
Watersheds & Beaches Year-Round
Deliverables Timeline
6/27/15 WQIPs due
6/27/15 JRMP update due
6/27/15 WP ordinance update due
Implementation
12/27/15 BMP Design Manual due
Bacteria TMDL Reopener* 2016
Jan
Apr
Jul
2013
Oct Jan
Apr
Jul
2014
Oct
Jan Apr
Jul
2015
Oct
Jan
Apr
Jul
2016
Oct
Jan
Apr
Jul
Oct
2017
*Reopener pending determination of RB EO Gibson
Jan
Apr
Jul
2018
Oct
Permit Engagement Opportunities
Early
2015
Orange
County
enrollment
Early
2016
Riverside
County
enrollment
Late
2016
Bacteria
TMDL
reopener
Watershed Protection Ordinance (WPO)
Update Schedule
• WPO Workgroup meetings (4/7/14; 11/6/14)
• County Counsel is reviewing the WPO draft comments
with WPP management.
• December 2014 - Commence Stakeholder outreach.
• January 2015 – Revise WPO per stakeholder comments.
• February/March 2015 – File Public Notice with the Clerk
of the Board for the Board Letter.
Watershed Protection Ordinance (WPO)
Update Schedule
• April 2015 – First reading of the ordinance at the Board of
Supervisors.
• May 2015 – Second reading and adoption of the WPO at
the Board of Supervisors.
• June 2015 – WPO becomes effective.
Enforcement Response Plan (ERP)
• Required components from the NPDES permit:
• Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination Enforcement
• Development Planning Enforcement
• Construction Management Enforcement
• Existing Development Enforcement
County Unincorporated Areas
Industrial Concentrations
Bordering areas
• Fallbrook
• San Marcos
• Vista
• Escondido
• Ramona
• El Cajon
• Lakeside
• Alpine
• Rancho San Diego
• Spring Valley
Industrial Inventory
• Total: ~180 Facilities
• Filers (NOI on file): 55%
(Notice of Intent)
• Non-filers: 12%
• NoNAs: 33%
(Notice of Non-Applicability)
County Strategy
• Comply with MS4 Permit
• Ensure industrial operators are in compliance with MS4
Permit
• Assist operators, as feasible, to prepare for the
implementation of the re-issued Industrial General Permit
(July 2015)
• Provide resource contact information to operators
County of San Diego
Watershed Protection Program
[email protected]
858-694-3493