Watershed Council June 25, 2009. DWR Funding and Bay Area IRWMP Project Selection Background Regional Acceptance Process (RAP) Regional Projects North.

Watershed CouncilJune 25, 2009

DWR Funding and Bay Area IRWMP Project Selection

• Background

• Regional Acceptance Process (RAP)

• Regional Projects

• North Bay Process

Background

• Subarea decision

• Target allocation decision

• Regional versus sub-regional projects??

Decision-Subareas and Funding

*Target Allocations (After Regional project allocation)-

½-No. of sub regions, ¼ pop. ¼ area

-N bay- 25%

-E bay-29 %

-S bay-25%

-W bay-22%

RAPSubmittal- April 29

– http://bairwmp.org/events/coordinating-commitee-meetings

– April 27 meeting

Interview with DWR-May 288:30-10:30 am

Interview Questions-Boundary-East Contra Costa, Santa Cruz

-Governance - Voting members, funding, integrate efforts, ABAG, Water Forum, resolve conflicts, regional versus equitable,

-Stakeholder Outreach-expand through sub-regions, participation of DACs ( and tribes), measure success, respond to input.

-Water Quality- integrate water supply systems to increase reliability

(RAP)• DWR- Likely endorse our region

Time line:*Ours was the 3rd of 46 interviews they have planned.

•Currently plan the interviews to go through July 9th.

* Will report on the RAP Process near the end of July.-Public comment period after that.

*Announce their formal RAP decisions in early September.

RAP• Important Themes

- Consensus Approach

- Developing sub-regions

- Ability to rank projects

- Developing “Regional” projects

Challenges

DACs

Match-25%

(RAP)• Funding-10% of funds will go to DACs statewide• Draft guidelines for Prop 84 should be out in the very

near future.• They are working to get final Prop 84 guidelines for Prop

84 out in early September; timing the RAP announcement and guideline release purposefully at the same time.

• They would likely get the final Prop 84 guidelines out regardless of the funding situation just to get it done.

• They are working on an IRWM Plan standard update and long term plans for the IRWM program.

• There is currently no authorization for providing bond funding, so the timing of funding projects is unknown.

Regional Projects

• Project Screening Sub-Committee– Meetings-May 4, May 18– Developed draft schedule – Identified possible regional projects

– http://bairwmp.org/draft-project-descriptions.

Regional Projects

1)Landscape Irrigation Calculator- MMWD

2) Drought Relief and Water Conservation Innovation Project-BAWAC (Zone 7)

3) Regional Green Infrastructure Capacity Building Project-SFEP

4) Regional Marketing for Recycled Water Use in the Bay -BACWA

5) Developing and Implementing Options for Mitigating Public Health Impacts of Eating Fish-BACWA

Regional Projects6) San Francisco Estuary Regional Watershed

Project-SFEP

7) Regional Flood Control Infrastructure Mapping and Needs Assessment-BAFPAA

8) Bay Area Regional Design Curves for

Creek Restoration and Bank Stabilization-SFEP

9) Evaluating regional ecosystem restoration using steelhead trout-CEMAR

10) Regional Historical Ecology Tools for Designing Sustainable Water Management Strategies-SFEI

Regional Projects

• Bay Area C. C.- June 1

Consensus Decision- Pursue “Regional Projects only”

Based on:

-short time frame

- limited funds (~$15 million)

- good regional proposals

North Bay Process-Will continue to participate in Project

Screening Sub-Committee meetings-

June 9 and July 6

Will continue to work with Counties including Solano on identifying possible “Green Infrastructure” projects

- Will coordinate county representatives on H/F TC to respond to EPA RFP and collaborate with SFEP

San Francisco Bay Area Water Quality Improvement Funds

• $ 5 million total from EPA

Priorities

• Reducing polluted run-off from urban development and agriculture. .

• Implementing TMDLs to restore impaired water quality.

Protecting and restoring habitat including riparian corridors, floodplains, wetlands, and the Bay.

EPA $

• Proposals must include specific statements describing the environmental results in terms of well-defined "outputs" and "outcomes". 

• Proposals should specify, numerically, water quality and related environmental outcomes. Outcomes must be quantitative.

EPA $• 1 to 5 grants under this upcoming solicitation.

• Awards will likely range from approximately $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 of federal funds with each project period being up to four years

• A minimum non-federal match of 25 percent of the total cost of the project will be required. 

• http://www.epa.gov/region09/water/watershed/funding.html