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Towards Living Streams

This report examines the importance of reshaping channels, controlling stormwater runoff, and implementing stormwater management permits to restore the health of streams and creeks in Santa Clara County. It also discusses the legal basis for addressing water quality issues and suggests potential legislative changes.

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Towards Living Streams

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  1. Towards Living Streams Santa Clara County Creeks Coalition Richard McMurtry October 2008

  2. We want our streams and creeks back

  3. We want our fish back

  4. We want our birds back

  5. River Science Solutions : • Reshape Channels • Stormwater Runoff Control from New Development • Stormwater Runoff Control from Existing Development

  6. Homebuilders Plea • Make a difference • Focus on regional solutions

  7. Stormwater Management Permits • Findings: Based on stream science • Provisions for monitoring stream erosion • Provisions for addressing erosive forces of stormwater from EXISTING development

  8. Legal Basis • 13260 and 13225 together • 13260: Waste Discharge • 13225: “Any factor affecting water quality”

  9. Watershed Analysis Permits • Issued to entities affecting stream stability and water quality • Focused on analyzing diverse water quality problems and potential solutions, including stream erosion

  10. 13225 Limitations • Difficulty of enforcement • Limited to public agencies • Limited to problem and solution definition, not implementation • Un-funded state mandate

  11. Potential For Use • Issue to selected high-priority watersheds as demonstration project • Funded with grant funds or ACL penalty money

  12. Legislative Changes • Make 13225 enforceable with ACLs • Make applicable to private agencies as well as public

  13. Requests • Regional Boards: • Solicit staff and public testimony on stream erosion problems and solutions. • Role of Regional Board permitting. • Make applicable to private agencies as well as public • State Board • Support legislative changes

  14. Living Streams for Ourselves and Future Generations

  15. (c) Require as necessary any state or local agency to investigate and report on any technical factors involved in water quality control or to obtain and submit analyses of water; provided that the burden, including costs, of such reports shall bear a reasonable relationship to the need for the report and the benefits to be obtained therefrom.

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