Eureka Area Watersheds Storm Water Resource Plan
The Final EAWSWRP is available to download (20 MB, 347 pages) :
Eureka Area Watersheds Storm Water Resource Plan
Eureka Area Watersheds Storm Water Resource Plan (click to download)
Living List of Scored EAWSWRP Projects
Need and Purpose of a Storm Water Resource Plan
A Storm Water Resource Plan (SWRP) is a planning document that is now required as a condition of receiving funds for storm water and dry weather runoff capture projects (Water Code section 10563 (c)(1)). This requirement applies to Proposition 1, which authorized $200 million in grants for multi-benefit storm water management projects. The City of Eureka and surrounding Humboldt County areas in the watershed planning area are required to develop a SWRP to receive Proposition 1 storm water grant funding.
Traditional approaches to storm water management have focused on conveyance to surface waters without providing treatment of runoff. These traditional approaches can cause detrimental impacts to downstream surface water bodies including hydromodification, destabilization, erosion, and pollution. The impetus of a SWRP is to prioritize projects that address the water quality impacts from storm water discharges while providing multiple benefits, such as public education and ecological enhancement within a local watershed. Projects can range from small retrofits such as standardized parkway curb cuts and tree wells in public rights-of-way to creation of constructed natural wetlands and/or installation of underground vaults that infiltrate or store captured runoff.