is a clean water act process for streams the surface water what is that do not meet water quality standards once it's identified that a water body does not meet water quality standards it's required because on something it is it's a determination of how much pollution a waterway can assimilate and still meet water quality standards so it's an exercise it's a it's a it's driven by a lot of stream data and it's driven by mathematical modeling as well once the t m t out is completed each case signs off on it our director signs off on it so that's the director of the department of that outside the door the rogue river in two thousand and eight and one of the things that's required is once that document is done all of the jurisdictions that may have an impact to water so say are required to develop implementation plan so that includes the county that includes the city of gold hill it includes all the other cities along the road were overall weight on the goal of the age so everyone  developed and submitted in lamentation plan and what that implementation plan says is you know what's going to be done to protect water quality who's going to do it and when it's going to be completed so the city of gold hit all submitted one of those plans in two thousand and eleven and february of two thousand and eleven in compliance with that rule you're not alone in this irrigation districts as well the forest service has submitted plans the department of forestry the b l m they also department of agriculture they also submit plans to meet this federal when the first year is complete and all report was submitted d e q signed off on it ok you guys are on the right track the second year at the end the report was submitted however there were some gaps and we identify those gaps we accepted the plan were actually in the second year we didn't so we did not accept the plan because there were gaps things that the city said they were going to do in terms of right here in protection in terms of storm water that was not reported on september the end of september is when we're going to be requesting this information and that's where there's going to be a question of compliance we've spoken to the city manager rick it's requested that we give the city a little bit more time to develop the energy to answer these questions and submit the end whole plan we still have to do what we need to exchange for the letter but we're looking at accommodating the rare student that's coming in to oversee th process in order to do that with requests this information by the end of november so instead of the end it's a temporary the end of them in terms of just an overview o already done failure to submit a plan is the potential violation and failure to implement the plan is also in the rule as a violation so it does have that regulatory back so are there any questions just in terms of the background and we can certainly talk about these things later it's wellesley meeting purposes i am very new on board and i think couple of months the program itself that complexities there are death that you are required to go it's is very different and he the approach is that you are able to take the discretion that you can  use is what we're going to be talking to us tonight so that the expectations that are given to a city like eugene or portland are different than the expectations for a small city however whether it's a large city the reason we're here tonight is a couple years ago i was working with our colleagues at the here in eugene and they had suggested there were a number of small communities across the state of like resources to address  actions in a fair amount of detail the city can kape to address some of your obligations in the kim deal and what we're going to do this evening is two of the team members are going to present some of that information to you for consideration what i think ultimately i would suggest you do is to consider adopting the stormwater management program by resolution not as an orderly it's going to indicate that there's council support implemented and i think that will go a we've been working with your contract planner from there are a car was looking at those and those would be adopted through a legislative amendment process and we would encourage you to look through those if you're comfortable with code amendment that we're recommending and will wrap up with roles and responsibilities so everybody understands the process moving forward and how we can make this transition to start this is a we've included in the service water management program including right here in protection streamlining management outreach and education and the management practice and this is where most of the community planning berkshire is coming in to help satisfy the something that he aspires to encompass and the action that it takes so the other projects that will take and are a variety of different ways of researching we've looked at the allow homeowners are developed areas to incorporate low impact and element practice and they would like to do that and i'll take a moment not just to explain what a low impact involvement is if you're not familiar with it it's a way of great taining stre every city officials are business owners to get an idea of how the community perceives water and what their issues that are concerns that they have or lack thereof so we can figure out a way to create a program that will help actions we want to incorporate and the service writer management program and also do technical research on the side to figure out what ways the bad be successful for this process and that led to our goals strategies and actions that we developed so moving higher to those goals strategies and action if you have a copy of your service plan or management program they call that way that they are really the general focus and vision of what the program was and the strategies there's a measure of action oriented you can see in the figure below me prevent the temperature from me and also provided shade for fish habitat as well as wildlife and food and more plants and roots help lock in the soil so there's not as much erosion and humps will trail some of the as you can see coal has three different strategies the first to leave the community by example and implementing strategies to improve water quality and at this time i also like to know  formally accept this program action one point one point two is to prioritise the use the loan package development strategies and public projects this is an ongoing process right something to keep in mind where upcoming projects it's actually like the second phase  they're thinking that the city will come in to create an area perry trail and the near future and this can be done in the fall is that still in the fall when the parks master plan getting developed and we do have partners who have committed to help with this process like the boiler fire conservation district in the watershed council so as we've gone through this process we've made sure to help make that connection to the resources available to the city  of the month every three months the last strategy is to establish partnerships to help implement the surface water management program and the action is one three three point one identify opportunities to partner with regional organizations and agencies and maintain communication with key contacts at these organisations as the lead touching base there for letting them know what you're planning on doing are they have  have a list of partners that have been working with us through the steering committee meetings over the past month or two to increase community engagement and awareness of water quality and she is there t strategies for this fall strategy to plant one is to raise awareness of human impacts on water quality and best practices are limited in those and packs action two point one point one i this is something that we allocated to the public works department and they can collaborate with the watershed council chose this action with their steering committee because we followed would be a great way to help engage the resident there in the why of going into the trains and ultimately issues or native vegetation action two point two point three is partnered with local school to incorporate an activity and which you grow play of vegetation this is something that can be worked on in the coming year for curriculum planning  maintain and enhanced repairing coronary vegetation to ensure a healthy river for humans and wildlife very few strands of hair one focusing on public property and the second  action three point two point one is to collaborate with program hard to provide enclave vegetation consultation or education to property owners this is an ongoing action as well to elaborate  as we have a list of resource that is a part of us or just being maintaining those links and updating it with the necessary information as it becomes dat it's an approach that does not require a right pairing ordinance so this is a way to develop a voluntary program to instead of taking the developed lands or  developing an ordinance that would impact current lands and future development this is a voluntary program that will provide vegetation to those who you know who want to plant it it will provide education soupy pl are aware of the value of what you currently have without developing the ordinance the backstop to that so from a d q perspective having a voluntary program for this community and this is where a smaller community has additional discretion is that you can take a voluntary approach the backstop is and it's identified in the service water management plan is that there needs to be some monitoring that indicates the work that you're doing so you're doing public outreach you're providing plants you're partnering with some water conservation district and providing additional information is that your efforts you need some way of tracking whether or not your efforts are working so it would be photo points or some other thing that would demonstrate that you're not losing tree it's over time is that your efforts on city property as well as on private lands is resulting in an increase in vegetation over time the plan is not the regulatory document the plan identifies a pathway to get you to meet those regulatory requirements which are identified in this document so this is that your implementation plan so this is what this is the regulatory document this is what the q checks you know you read you respond you report on this on an annual basis how you get to that response is discretionary on your part and this is a way to get there so this is a pathway and there is the rare student coming in and this this is an identified pathway to get you there however that's not the regulatory requirement adopting this is it's an indication of a council support matrix and that is as the mayor has been the head brought up earlier that is discretion that a smaller community parents is that you can use a voluntary approach and there are there is a lot of it's so old we haven't had perky i mean there are a lot of streets with not enough parking in chorus or go over which create its own problem with health and safety so we do need to have perking provided the same parking and healthy from this point so the two main players in the game or at the city council in the city we have been sharing the city council is all responsible for overseeing the implementation and progress of the surface water management program but i mentioned earlier in the program we recommend adopting it through resolution to show that you have supported this process as well as dedicate the necessary resources to been on these updates and they've adjusted quite a few overnight especially appreciate them putting the definitions in there because i've been doing this for thirty six years and some of those i did not know the actual definition and there was one that i thought was really important  coverage because i've been some places where law coverage doesn't through the driveway and in this case the definition is just that house and covered space that anything with structures over thirty six inches that's very important because they've suggested a reduction in the lot coverage and also possibly looking at some smaller lot sizes by the time you factor all of those and you could have some pretty small parcels lots and lots but because the definition says it doesn't include driveways that's good and yet when they talk about dr gray says that whole impervious for the pervious surface which would exempt them from having to comply with that if that was the case but by having these definitions in here it makes it much simpler in my mind to one thing that is important they also mention is that they're recommending that one addition to the purpose statement well anytime there's an application that comes in that's important because we look at is this application consistent with the purpose of the song so it says both require and allow to some extent or encourage and allow i think that in our evaluation we would be able to look through to see how these measures are being implemented and the implementation is still important we started obviously with the regulatory part night time went through some pretty painful hearings with you on that and so i applaud this effort to make it attractive to the residents because they were feeling threatened and if we can move it around to where  are things that we can do and by example i really like the idea of working on city park to show demonstrations of how this works well that's going to be very positive for the residents having said all of that anytime we suggest changes to the ordinance there are there because they are conservative there might be something that they would you know be bound to do and yes we would go through that process but because there is no planning commission would be probably beginning with a formal workshop with you regarding just the zoning in the us and then we would move into the notification of the state of oregon which is now a thirty five day notice rather than forty five and then move into the hearings process and i i'm on who are going to be helping you with that element of the law of the river to swim to work with not to take everything that's happened here and take it be all with our partners of the watershed council and the jackson county jackson