Bend releases prioritized stormwater master plan projects, flags funding and coordination needs

City of Bend stormwater staff on a February meeting presented a draft Stormwater Master Plan that ranks capital drainage projects and required outfall retrofits, identifies 17 high-priority drill-hole retrofits posing groundwater risk, and places hundreds of smaller repair and maintenance needs in program lists for phased implementation.

The presentation, led by Trista Kabulski, stormwater master plan project manager, summarized how public input and staff scoring produced a combined capital project list that interleaves water-quality outfall retrofits and drainage projects. Kabulski told the Water Advisory Group the outfall retrofit work is needed to meet the city—s municipal stormwater permit and that the team prioritized six basins for retrofit concepts.

City staff said the prioritized capital list reflects an effort to balance conveyance and flooding needs with water-quality outcomes. The plan uses a scoring matrix (maximum 80 points) that now gives equal weight (20 points each) to conveyance/flooding and water-quality improvements, raises multiple-benefits weighting to 20 points, and lowers the weight for previously recognized priority…