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Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or his designee, to submit an application to the Clean Beaches Initiative (CBI) Grant Program; and
Authorize City Manager, or his designee, to accept a grant from the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) for $4,470,627, if the City is awarded funding, and execute all documents, agreements and amendments necessary to accept the funds. (Districts 2,3)
DISCUSSION
The California SWRCB CBI Grant Program provides funding for projects that restore and protect the water quality and environment of coastal waters, estuaries, bays, and near shore waters. On November 16, 2012, the SWRCB informed City staff that the Conceptual Proposal for stormwater low-flow diversion, which was submitted in September 2012, qualified for the Implementation Round 1 of the CBI Grant Program. An invitation to submit a detailed application for funding was extended to the City. In addition to the invitation, the SWRCB assigned a Grant Manager to assist staff with the City’s project. The SWRCB has assigned Proposal Number 24663 to the project.
A resolution has been prepared and attached that authorizes the City Manager, or his designee, to apply for and accept up to $4,470,627 for CBI Grant Program funds. If the City is awarded funding, the funds will be used to construct structural Best Management Practice (BMP) devices consisting of three Low Flow Diversion (LFD) Systems and two Vortex Separation System (VSS) pre-filter devices that will affect three beach outfalls, in order to achieve compliance with the reduction or elimination of bacteria, as required by the Long Beach Beaches and Los Angeles River Estuary Bacteria TMDL, adopted by the SWRCB in March 2012.
The proposed structural BMPs will be constructed in the storm-drain main lines that discharge to the following beach outfalls (see attached):
1. 9th Place south of Ocean Boulevard (construct one LFD and one VSS)
2. Redondo Avenue north of Ocean Boulevard ...
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