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Bureau of Reclamation and the LA County Public Works Seek the Public’s Help in Designing New Stormwater Strategies
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Jack Simes, (951) 695-5310 , 11/10/2014 11:32
For Release: November 10, 2014
LOS ANGELES -- The Bureau of Reclamation and the LA County Public Works will host a public meeting on November 12, from 6 to 8 p.m., to help develop solutions to long?term water conservation and flood control challenges stemming from future population growth and climate conditions in local watersheds. The event will take place in the 3rd Floor Conference Room at the LA Metropolitan Transit Center, 1 Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles, 90012.
The meeting will follow a design charette format in which the group works collaboratively to craft a solution to a specific challenge. The public is invited to join in this effort in support of the LA Basin Stormwater Conservation Study.
During the charette, the study team will share information with a goal of getting the public's help in identifying and developing structural and nonstructural concepts to manage stormwater under future conditions. After the concepts are developed during the charette, they will undergo a preliminary analysis to determine if they meet a minimum set of evaluation criteria ? such as storage and infiltration capacity. The concepts that meet these minimum criteria will be further refined, and a detailed trade-off analysis will then be conducted. The LA Basin Study will recommend potential changes to the operation of stormwater capture systems, modifications to existing facilities, and development of new facilities that could help resolve future water supply and flood control issues.
The Los Angeles Basin Stormwater Conservation Study is funded with $1 million from the Bureau of Reclamation, $1.36 million from the Los Angeles County Flood Control District and $60,000 from other partners including the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works.
It is part of the WaterSMART Program. WaterSMART is the U.S. Department of the Interior?s sustainable water initiative that uses the best available science to improve water conservation and help water resource managers identify strategies to narrow the gap between supply and demand. Basin studies are comprehensive water studies that define options for meeting future water demands in river basins in the western United States where imbalances in water supply and demand exist or are projected to exist.
For more information on this Study, see its website at:http://www.usbr.gov/lc/socal/LABasin.html.
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