San Jose City Council
March 25, 2025

(D) 4. Municipal Regional Stormwater Permit
Update
Lori Mitchell, P.E., Acting Director, Environmental Services Rajani Nair P.E., Deputy Director, Environmental Services Mathew Nguyen, P.E., Deputy Director, Public Works
Jennifer Seguin, Deputy Director, Transportation
James A. Williams, Assistant Fire Chief, Fire
Transportation & Environment Committee
March 3, 2025
1 The Clean Water Act
▪ The Federal Water Pollution Control Act of
1948 was the first major U.S. law to address
water pollution.
▪ Growing public awareness and concern
for controlling water pollution led to
sweeping amendments that became commonly
known as the Clean Water Act (CWA).
▪ Prohibits the discharge of any pollutantinto
the waters of the United States
2 Municipal Regional Stormwater Permit Provisions – Effective July 1, 2022 Permit Provision
City Departments (with support from Office of Economic Development and Cultural Affairs, Finance, and City Manager’s Budget Office)
ESD DOT Housing PBCE PRNS PW Airport Fire Police
C.2 Municipal Operations
C.3 New Development and Redevelopment (GSI)
C.4 Industrial and Commercial Site Controls
C.5 Illicit Discharge and Detection Elimination
C.6 Construction Site Control
C.7 Public Information and Outreach
C.8 Water Quality Monitoring
C.9 Pesticides Toxicity Control
C.10 Trash Load Reduction
C.11,
C.12 Mercury and PCBs Controls
C.13 Copper Controls
C.15 Exempted & Conditionally Exempted Discharges
C.17 Discharges Associated with Unsheltered Homeless
Populations
C.20 Cost Reporting
C.21 Asset Management
C.22 Annual Reports
3 MRP 3 Critical Milestones - Year 3 and Year 4
June 2025
▪Complete
Initial
Inspections of
Private Lands
parcels
September 2025
▪Submit Direct Discharge Progress
Report
▪Submit 1st year implementation of
Cost Reporting
▪Submit Stormwater Annual Report
▪Submit Regional Firefighting
Discharges Report
▪Submit Asset Management Plan
▪Submit map with homeless
encampment locations
December
2025
▪Complete
Small and
Large FTC
Installation
▪Achieve
100% Trash
Load
Reduction
June 2026
and beyond
▪Mark 80% of the
City’s storm sewer
inlets with “No
Dumping” message
▪1st year
implementation of
Asset Management
Plan
▪Direct Discharge
Progress Report,
Stormwater Annual
Report
4 C.3 New and Redevelopment - Green Stormwater
Infrastructure (GSI)
Next Steps:
▪ February 2025: Complete Riverview Stormwater
Capture Garden - Santa Clara County’s first GSI
Regional Project
▪ Develop Alternative Compliance Program, In-Lieu
Fee to support GSI design, permitting, installation,
and ongoing operations and maintenance
▪ Track and assess increasing number of required GSI
projects maintained by the City
5 C.10 Trash Load Reduction
Achieve 100% trash load reduction without
offsets by December 31, 2025
Next Steps:
▪ Reevaluate options to meet 100% for 3 large full trash capture (LTC) devices not installed
▪ Install ~530 inlet-based full trash capture (STC) devices ▪ Complete Phase II Waterways Surge Count per Direct Discharge Plan ▪ Complete Private Lands inspections on private properties ▪ Seek and potentially secure new Grant funding for non-profit partners ▪ Pilot Adopt-a-Storm Drain Program (per CD 1) to increase on land visual assessment scoring and help to maintain trash load reduction 6 C.11 Mercury Controls
C.12 Polychlorinated Biphenyls
(PCBs) Controls
Next Steps:
▪ Continue monitoring, investigation, and enforcement of additional Source and Moderate parcels per Water Board
approved revised Regional Control Measure Plan
▪ Implement enhanced O&M in public ROW for Moderate Old Industrial Areas where no Source Properties found
▪ Continue coordinating with Planning Building Code Enforcement regarding Building Demolition Permit review
7 C.15.b.iii. Emergency Discharges of Firefighting
Water and Foam
Next Steps:
▪ Submit Regional Firefighting Discharges
Report to the Water Board by September
30, 2025
▪ Need to implement training for Fire staff
and vendors
▪ Evaluate Large Industrial sites emergency
firefighting discharge management
practices
8 C.17 Discharges from Unsheltered Homeless
Populations
Next Steps:
▪ Complete Phase II Waterways Surge Count
and submit map with homeless
encampment locations
▪ In-channel waterway cleanups in
partnership with Valley Water
9 C.20 Cost Reporting & C.21 Asset Management
Next Steps:
▪ Continue to track using Water Board-
approved Cost Reporting Framework
tool
▪ Submit report with September 2025
Stormwater Annual Report
Next Steps:
▪ Coordinate with City Departments to
identify applicable assets, existing
operating procedures, future plans
and gaps
▪ Complete and Submit Asset
Management Plan with September
2025 Stormwater Annual Report
▪ Implement Asset Management Plan
starting July 1, 2025
10 What We’re Striving to Achieve
Coyote Creek, Before and After 78 volunteers removed over 7,400lbs of trash Photos courtesy of Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful, December 2024 11 (D) 4. Municipal Regional Stormwater Permit
Update
Lori Mitchell, P.E., Acting Director, Environmental Services Rajani Nair P.E., Deputy Director, Environmental Services Mathew Nguyen, P.E., Deputy Director, Public Works
Jennifer Seguin, Deputy Director, Transportation
James A. Williams, Assistant Fire Chief, Fire
Transportation & Environment Committee
March 3, 2025
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