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Utilities staff explain watershed management plan, monitoring program and how results guide stormwater system planning
Summary
Utilities planning staff detailed the watershed management plan’s role in informing an updated storm-and-surface-water system plan, described a new environmental monitoring program (continuous gauges, water-quality sampling and benthic macroinvertebrate surveys) and highlighted early signs of stream health improvement in Coal Creek.
Eric LaFrance, utilities planning manager, and Brianna Pierce, senior environmental technician and environmental data scientist, briefed the commission on June 5 about progress on Bellevue’s Watershed Management Plan and the environmental monitoring program the city is using to measure stream health.
LaFrance framed the watershed plan as focused on stream-health objectives and described how that work will feed into a broader storm-and-surface-water system plan now under way; the system plan will assess service levels, policies and funding needs and is expected to proceed through 2025–26 with completion targeted in early 2027. LaFrance told commissioners the watershed plan alone could not resolve competing infrastructure and environmental priorities, so staff are using the…
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