Stormwater Trash Load
Reduction Compliance
Update
Ben Livsey
Watershed & Stormwater Management Division
Public Works Department
• Municipal Regional Stormwater Permit (MRP)
• Phase out compliance credits,
• Requires new program to regulate large private parcels • Meet 2025 100% trash reduction target by:
• Expanding existing trash reduction programs
• Installing up to an 1,870 additional full trash capture systems in the storm drain system
Compliance Baseline?
• Accounts for trash generation levels
across City by land-use type
• New actions compared to 2009
baseline
Very-High trash level example
Compliance Baseline?
Compliance Baseline?
Trash Reduction Credits = 92.8%
• Full Trash Capture Systems
(11.5%)
• Creek & Shoreline Cleanups
(9.5%)
• Direct Discharge Program
(15%)
• Other Control Measures
(56.8%)
Large Full Trash Capture Devices (12 total; 11.5%)
Large Full Trash Capture Devices
Large Full Trash Capture Devices
Small Full Trash Capture Devices (197 total; 11.5%)
•Up to 1,870 in next 1.5 years
•Capital costs up to $13.5M
Small Full Trash Capture Devices
Small Full Trash Capture Devices
• 10% credit through FY 2024/25
• 465K gallons picked up last fiscal
year
• +106% increase in volunteer
hours since 2010
Creek & Shoreline Cleanups (9.5%)
Direct Trash Discharge Control Plan (15%)
• Illegal dumping and homeless
encampment cleanups near
waterways
• Leverages existing programs
Other Trash Control Measures (56.8%)
On -land visual trash assessments (OVTAs):
• Street sweeping
• Adopt -a-Spot
• Excess Litter Fee
• Business Improvement Districts
• Business inspections
• Environmental Enforcement
Officers
• Education and outreach
• Private parcels with storm drainage plumbed directly to City’s storm drain system must control trash by June 30, 2025
• Install full trash capture systems or implement equivalent trash reduction programs
• Includes businesses and residential properties
Require Large Parcels to Control Trash
MRP 3.0 Compliance = 31.7% Deficit
Trash Load Reduction Action FY 25/26
Existing
Planned
Actions
1) Full Trash Capture Systems 11.5% 22%
2) Creek and Shoreline Cleanups 0% 0%
3) Direct Trash Discharge Control
Program
0% 0%
4) Private Land Drainage Area
Control Program
0 13.3%
5) Other Control Measures 56.8% 56.8%
Total 68.3% 113.1%
Compliance Requirement 100%
Trash Credits Needed -31.7% +13.1%
Planned Actions and Challenges Ahead
Actions
1. Install full trash capture devices (up to~1,870)
- OPW and DOT projects
- Measure Q funding
2. Continue and expand existing trash reduction programs Challenges
• Controls on private land drainage areas
• Maintain thousands of trash capture devices
LEARN MORE
To learn more about actions the City of Oakland Watershed & Stormwater Management Division is taking to protect water quality and restore and preserve Oaklands, creeks, lakes and watersheds visit:
Oaklandcreeks.org