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Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager to submit a grant application to the San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy for the EI Dorado Duck Pond restoration project; and execute any documents necessary for the implementation and administration of the project. (District 5)
DISCUSSION
In November 2014, California voters passed Proposition 1, the $7.545 billion Water Quality, Supplyand Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014, to provide capital funding for water projects, including surface and groundwater storage, ecosystem and watershed protection and restoration, and drinking water protection. Subsequent enabling legislation authorized $30 million in Proposition 1 grant funding to the San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy (RMC).
This RMC grant will fund projects that are consistent with the RMC's enabling legislation, meet the RMC's required project selection criteria, support the RMC's Common Ground Objectives, and advance the objectives of Proposition 1. Grant funds of up to $2 million may be requested for acquisition, development, rehabilitation, restoration, and protection of land and water resources. Grant funds may also be used for direct project-specific management costs, permitting, and overhead costs of up to 15 percent of the total project cost.
The Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine proposes to apply for $1,754,000 in grant funding through the RMC forthe restoration and rehabilitation of the duck pond in EI Dorado Park West. The project scope includes:
• Removal of accumulated sediments from the duck pond;
• Restoration of the habitat surrounding the duck pond, incorporating native trees and shrubs;
• Replacement of the concrete shoreline path around the duck pond;
• Creation of a wetland buffer between the shoreline path and the duck pond, which will treat runoff flowing into the duck pond and improve water quality;
• Reconstruction of the irrigat...
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