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City engineer pitches 10-year stormwater monitoring network and fee-change option to fund it
Summary
City engineer Holly Olson and a stormwater consultant presented a proposal for a hydro-meteorological monitoring network, modeling platform (AUGWA), and potential changes to the city stormwater fee to generate funding; staff said the plan is in the proposed budget and would roll out weather stations first.
Holly Olson, Montgomery’s city engineer, and a city-hired stormwater consultant presented a technical plan to expand stormwater monitoring and modeling across the city and suggested fee changes to fund the work.
Olson described a staged program the city has proposed in its budget: deploy weather stations first, add stream gauges the following year, and implement an automated watershed-analysis platform (referred to in the presentation as “AUGWA”) for faster modeling. The presentation included a 10-year implementation footprint with 27 watershed models, about 24 weather stations and 17 stream gauges, and a planning-level cost of roughly $1,980,000.
The consultant described recent analyses that show how concentrated, back-to-back storms increase discharge and flood risk. He cited a Colosseum…
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