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Salinas adopts updated stormwater master plan, flags long funding gap
Summary
The Salinas City Council adopted an updated stormwater master plan that prioritizes 18 high‑priority projects but identified a large long‑term funding gap; staff recommended pursuing grants, partnerships and ultimately a dedicated funding mechanism.
The Salinas City Council adopted an update to the city’s stormwater master plan on March 11, directing staff to continue seeking grant and partnership funding while noting the plan identifies substantial long‑term funding needs.
The master plan documents roughly 145 miles of storm infrastructure in Salinas, more than 6,000 stormwater assets and 70+ outfalls to creeks that flow to Monterey Bay. Heidi Nigameyer, the city’s stormwater program manager, told council that an asset condition and hydraulic analysis shows a significant portion of the system is aging and at elevated risk of failure.
Valerie Huff of Wallace Group summarized the technical work: the team field‑surveyed inlets, manholes and outfalls, developed a hydraulic model to route rainfall and runoff into the pipe network, and ranked locations for intervention by frequency and severity of flooding, impacts to public safety and climate resiliency. The plan…
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