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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all documents necessary to enter into a right-of-entry permit with the Council for Watershed Health, and/or its agents, to enter Veterans Park for the purpose of resuming groundwater monitoring for a Water Augmentation Study, for a term of two years, with one, one-year renewal option at the discretion of the City Manager or his designee. (District 6)
DISCUSSION
On August 19, 2003, the City Council authorized the City Manager to execute a two-year right-of-entry permit with the Council for Watershed Health (Watershed Council) to drill test borings to analyze soil samples in both El Dorado Park and Veterans Park. The samples were used to evaluate the benefits of stormwater infiltration for enhancing environmental health, conserving water, and increasing our local water supply to develop stormwater best management practices (BMPs). During this time, the Watershed Council also monitored comprehensive surface/subsurface monitoring systems at five other sites in the Los Angeles area.
The analysis concluded that Veterans Park would be the best location in Long Beach for the construction of subsurface monitoring equipment to percolate and collect stormwater runoff. Monitoring equipment was installed at Veterans Park and the Watershed Council continued collection and testing during the term of the permit.
On October 4, 2005, the City Council authorized the City Manager to execute another right-of-entry permit to allow the Watershed Council to continue its monitoring efforts. All six of the Los Angeles area sites were actively monitored from 2003 to 2007; this monitoring and sampling determined long-term data sets for stormwater infiltration.
The Watershed Council recently received funding from the State Water Resources Control Board, Proposition 84 Stormwater Grant Program, to continue their Water Augmentation Study (Study) by resampling a subset of sites to extend the long-term data set. Due to th...
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