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Task force reviews detention/retention basin study; master‑plan cost and tax options draw debate
Summary
Consultants presented a detention/retention basin study aimed at increasing storage and reducing peak flows; task force discussed whether to spend limited funds on basin projects, a $300,000 'light' master plan or pursue a parks/stormwater tax. The group asked consultants for a narrower proposal and for communications outreach guidance.
City staff presented interim findings from a detention and retention basin study prepared for the task force, based on prior USGS analysis of Cox Creek and other local data. The consultant’s summary (final report due in early August) identified potential modifications to existing subdivision basins and possible new basin locations that could increase storage and reduce peak flows into Cox Creek.
Staff said the basin work was intended to stretch limited public funds and that preliminary analysis suggested modified basins could materially reduce peak flows. One city engineer summarized that the report identified potential storage that, when aggregated,…
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