TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute a Right-of-Entry Permit with California State University Long Beach, to enter the Colorado Lagoon and Marine Stadium to conduct academic research on biological resources and perform monitoring activities for an initial three-year term, with one, two-year renewal option at the discretion of the City Manager, or his designee; and execute any amendments to expand the permit area and scope of work as additional grant funding is secured. (District 3)
DISCUSSION
California State University Long Beach (CSULB) was awarded a grant in the amount of $92,202 by the University of Southern California SeaGrant Program to engage in research activities to ascertain fish foraging behavior, migration patterns, and utilization of culverts to access estuarine habitat. The proposed research consists of monitoring a focused group of fish (round stingray, California halibut, yellowfin croaker, and grey smoothhound) to ascertain the sample population's behavior. To support the research, a Right-of-Entry Permit will be required to temporarily install Radiofrequency Identification (RFID) readers below sea level at both ends of the Colorado Lagoon and Marine Stadium, and to install receptor and power boxes on the concrete headwalls at both ends of the culvert. The University has received the required approvals from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and CSULB's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, to tag and monitor the sample population.
The academic research activities will help support the City in its efforts to meet water quality targets as mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency, State Water Resources Control Board, and Regional Water Quality Control Board. The Colorado Lagoon has an active Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for water, sediment, and fish tissue quality. Numeric targets for specific constituents of concern for fish tissue include DDT, Dieldrin, PCBs and chlordane. Fish are known to...
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