Long-Term Trash Load
Reduction Plan Update
Rajani Nair, P.E., Deputy Director
Kerrie Romanow, Director
Environmental Services
Transportation and Environment Committee
September 11, 2023
Item (d) 3
1 Overview
▪ Understand regulatory requirements
▪ City’s current trash load reduction status
▪ Overview of current and future trash control measures ▪ Next Steps
2 Why This Matters
3 Brief History - 1972
Clean Water Act
CALL TO ACTION: Increasing public concerns about water
pollution
CLEAN WATER ACT ORGINS:
❑ 1899 Rivers and Harbors Act/Refuse Act
❑ 1948 Federal Water Pollution Control Act
ADMINISTERED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY:
❑ Created 1970 under Richard Nixon Administration
4 Background: Long-Term Trash Load Reduction
2009 Stormwater Permit
Compliance Schedule
Requirements
• 40% reduction in trash
loads by 2014;
• 70% reduction in trash
loads by 2017;
Deliverables
• Develop assessment
methodology and
determine baseline trash
load from MS4;
• Develop and submit LongTerm Trash Load Reduction
Plan by February 2014
2015 Stormwater Permit
Compliance Schedule
Requirements
• 60% reduction in trash loads
by 2016*;
• 70% reduction in trash loads
by 2017;
• 80% reduction in trash loads
by 2019;
Deliverables
• Revise and submit updated
Long-Term Plan if 60%
reduction target not met.
5 Regulatory Background and Past Accomplishments
Trash Control Measure FY
21-22
FY
20-21
FY
19-20
FY
18-19
FY
17-18
FY
16-17
FY
15-16
FY
14-15
FY
13-14
Full Trash Capture Systems 51.70% 49.60% 49.60% 46.20% 38.90% 36.00% 16.50% 8% 7% On-land Trash Control Measures 16.70% 15.60% 14.80% 15.60% 14.40% 8.20% 1.80% 2% 7% Subtotal 68.40% 65.20% 64.40% 61.80% 53.30% 44.20% 18.30% 10.00% 14.00% Jurisdictional Source Controls 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 14% 10% Creek and Shoreline Cleanups 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 51% 37% Direct Discharge Trash Control
Plan 15% 15% 15% 15% 15% 15% 15% N/A N/A
Total 103.40% 100.20% 99.40% 96.80% 88.30% 79.20% 53.30% 77% 62% Claimed 103.40% 100.20% 99.40% 96.80% 88.30% 79.20% 53.30% 77% 40% Target 80% 70% 60%* 40%
* FY 15-16’s 60% target was not mandatory. Permittees unable to achieve it were required to submit a detailed plan and schedule of implementation of additional trash load reduction control actions that will attain the 2017 mandatory deadline.
6 Current Requirements
(as of July 1, 2022)
Achieve Trash Load Reduction
compared to 2009 baseline:
❑ 90% by June 30, 2023
❑ 100% by June 30, 2025
FY 22-23 Accomplishments
Full Trash Capture (FTC) = 54.1%
On land Visual Trash
Assessment (OVTA) (FY 22-23
TLR) =
16.5%
Subtotal: 70.6%
Jurisdictional Source Controls
(phased out as of July 1, 2023)= 0%
Add'l Creek Cleanups = 10%
Direct Discharge Trash Control
Plan (DDTCP) = 15%
TOTAL = 95.6%
City’s current
Trash Load
Reduction without
offsets
Need to revise Long
Term Trash Plan since
below 90%
35% Offsets and
Credits phase out
between 2022
and 2025
7 0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Jun 2023 Jun 2024* Jun 2025* Dec 2025 - June 2027*
Trash Load Reduction Percentage
2023 Compliance Goal – 90%
2025 Compliance Goal – 100%
Full Trash Capture
On-Land Trash Controls
Offset: Additional Creek / Shoreline Cleanups
Offset: Direct Discharge Program
Private Lands Trash Controls
Compliance Gap
* Estimated trash load reduction percentage
Note:
Credit for Offset
programs will end
June 30, 2025.
However, City
anticipates
continuing these
programs
8 Current Trash Control Measures – Full Trash Capture
Full Trash Capture (FTC) Devices
installed
❑ 34 Large Full Trash Capture Devices
❑ 107 Connector Pipe Screens
❑ 88 Bioretention Systems
FTC O&M
❑Record Keeping
9 Other Current Trash Control Measures
Creek and Shoreline
Cleanups
Free Residential Junk Pickup
Special Events Waste
Management
Outreach and Community
Engagement
Jurisdictional Source
Controls
Commercial and Solid Waste
Inspection and Enforcement
Programs
Public Litter Cans
Encampment Management
Program
Downtown PBID
Adopt-a-Park
Neighborhood Litter Program
InforBI Data Management
RAPID
Neighborhood Beautification
Programs
Street Sweeping
Litter Enforcement
10 Future Trash Control Measures
New requirement - Private Land Drainage Areas
(PLDAs) Trash Inspection program
Future Large Trash Capture Device projects
❑ 4 Hydrodynamic Separators (Phase VII)
❑ 5 Hydrodynamic Separators, (Phase VIII)
❑ Bioretention Systems
Other programs being developed or implemented
11 Next Steps
Submit revised Long-Term Plan to the Water Board by
September 30, 2023
Analyze and evaluate data to determine where to
prioritize efforts
• Full Trash Capture
• Expansion of existing trash control measures
• Implementation of new programs
Submit additional funding for implementation in FY 24-25 12 Long-Term Trash Load
Reduction Plan Update
Rajani Nair, P.E., Deputy Director
Kerrie Romanow, Director
Environmental Services
Transportation and Environment Committee
September 11, 2023
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