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Council adopts guiding principles for city—s integrated plan for water, wastewater and stormwater through 2020
Summary
The City Council adopted guiding principles developed with a broad steering group and city agencies to shape a comprehensive infrastructure plan for water, wastewater and stormwater through 2020 and directed staff to proceed with facilities planning, fiscal analysis and an environmental review process.
The Los Angeles City Council voted Dec. 14 to adopt a set of guiding principles that will steer development of an Integrated Plan for water, wastewater and stormwater needs through 2020.
The Bureau of Sanitation and Department of Public Works led a nearly two-year stakeholder process that included the Department of Water and Power and more than 60 community, environmental and business representatives. Bureau division manager Adel Hashkaleel and Bureau director Judy Wilson presented the consensus principles and described a schedule that will produce a facilities plan, financial plan and environmental documentation by roughly 2004.
Hashkaleel told the council the guiding principles are not project-specific; the next stage will identify facilities, locations, costs, financing strategies and environmental impacts for review. The plan is intended to improve water supply reliability, reuse and conservation, reduce stormwater pollution, and modernize wastewater facilities to serve future growth.
Stakeholder representatives who served on the steering committee told the council they supported the principles as a rare example of sustained interagency and community collaboration. Dorothy Green, chair of an area watershed council, described the process as “a great example of community-based government in action.”
The council unanimously adopted the guiding principles and authorized staff to move into the facilities-plan and environmental-document phases of the integrated planning process. City staff said they will continue community outreach while work proceeds and will return to the council with proposed projects, budgets and necessary environmental reviews.
