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Palo Alto staff outline new stormwater ordinance chapters, GSI plans and near-complete trash-capture compliance

Palo Alto Stormwater Committee · October 28, 2025
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Summary

City staff described the new municipal code structure for sewer/stormwater rules, the citys strategy to meet MRP requirements including a Juana Briones Park GSI project, and progress on MRP trash-load reduction (reported at 99.2 percent and advancing toward 100 percent).

Staff updated the committee on regional stormwater permit obligations (the MRP), a municipal code reorganization and steps to meet trash-load reduction and green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) targets.

Pam, stormwater compliance manager, summarized the changes to the Palo Alto Municipal Code (PAMC) that reorganize sewer use, stormwater pollution prevention, liquid waste and fats/oil/grease into separate chapters (chapter citations discussed during the meeting); Pam said the new chapters become effective Oct. 30 and that staff will publish user-friendly regulation documents to support inspections and compliance.

Pam described the MRP program (the regional permit administered by the State Water Resources Control Board for the San Francisco Bay watershed and commonly called MRP) and noted permittees are beginning negotiations for the…

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