Item C: Stormwater Permit and Program Developments

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Capital improvements may be necessary to resolve the drywell issues, and could have significant financial implications for the City and Lane County. Stormwater Capital Improvement Program The City's updated Stormwater Basin Master Plans, completed in August 2002 for all basins except River Road - Santa Clara, identify $64.6 million in user fee funded capital improvement needs for FY06 through FY35. Following the 2003 program review and the need to reduce costs, the annual user fee funded portion of the Stormwater Capital Improvement Program (CIP) budget was reduced to $640,000 effective FY05. The current CIP budget level will extend the timeline for implementing the capital projects identified in the Stormwater Basin Master Plans, including neighborhood water quality facilities, pipe and culvert retrofits, stream corridor acquisition, and stream restoration. Additional projects identified in the River Road - Santa Clara Basin Master Plan will exacerbate this issue. Future Regulations Total Maximum Daily Loads In January 2005, Eugene submitted comments to the DEQ on the proposed Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), or pollutant load allocations, for the Willamette River watershed. Eugene, along with other agencies within the Willamette River watershed, will be required to reduce certain pollutants to ultimately achieve compliance with state water quality standards. Permit conditions in the City's 2004 NPDES permit are intended to ensure that the City will undertake actions to begin addressing specific pollutants of concern in the short term, in advance of completion of the TMDL. Financial and/or Resource Considerations The evaluation of the City's NPDES permit-related activities in light of new permit conditions resulted in the identification of a program gap and needed program adjustments which will require additional resources to address. Stormwater development standards, identified as a gap in the City's program, are a part of the current program workplan and are scheduled for adoption by the City Council in May 2006. Preliminary estimates of the financial impact of proposed stormwater development standards are that an additional $230,000 per year will be needed beginning in FY07 to support the program including plan review, inspection, enforcement and maintenance. Beyond FY07, the cost to maintain an increasing number of water quality facilities is expected to grow as new facilities come on-line. Detailed information about the financial impacts of stormwater development standards will be provided to the council along with the draft ordinance in spring 2006. Permit-related program adjustments which will have a financial impact beginning in FY07, along with preliminary cost estimates, include: expansion of the stormwater monitoring program ($25,000 annually); one-time upgrades for monitoring equipment ($31,000 in FY07); and a new three-year bacteria pilot study ($21,000 in FY07, with additional funds needed in FY08 and FY09). Two stormwater program developments which will require additional resources to implement beginning approximately in FY08 are: 1) adoption of proposed water quality waterway protections for specific sensitive and impaired waterways; and 2) implementation of the River Road - Santa Clara Stormwater Basin Master Plan. Detailed information about the financial implications of water quality protected waterways will be provided during the ordinance adoption process in June 2006. Detailed information about River Road - Santa Clara capital projects will be provided both as part of the FY08 budget adoption process, and during the 2008-2013 Capital Improvement Program adoption process in the spring of 2007. L\CMOI200S Council AgendasIMOSIOIOISOSIOIOC.doc