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Fairfax City describes outfall restoration, flood modeling and a $1 million urban-forest grant
Summary
City staff described projects to reduce stormwater pollution, build a flood-risk model and expand the urban forest with a $1,000,000 grant called Sprout; staff explained how outfall restoration reduces sediment and nutrient loads that flow to the Chesapeake Bay.
City of Fairfax public works and climate staff outlined ongoing stormwater and urban-forest work that the city says will reduce pollution and increase resilience to more frequent, intense storms.
Public Works Program Manager Satoshi Ito explained that all watersheds in Fairfax City drain to the Chesapeake Bay and that the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act and the city's Municipal Stormwater Permit require jurisdictions in the Bay watershed to reduce discharges of sediment, nitrogen and phosphorus. Ito described a planned outfall channel restoration and a simultaneous sanitary sewer encasement project…
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