Municipal Regional Stormwater
National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit Stormwater Management Annual Report 2025-2026
Jeff Provenzano, Director, Environmental Services
Rajani Nair, Deputy Director, Environmental Services
Jennifer Seguin, Deputy Director, Transportation
Garrett Haertel, Deputy Director, Public Works
Olympia Williams, Deputy Director, Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services Patrick Chung, Deputy Fire Chief, Fire
San José City Council
September 22, 2026
1 Regulatory Requirements
Cuyahoga River, Ohio
The 1972 Clean Water Act
prohibits the discharge of
any pollutant into the waters
of the United States
Municipal Regional
Stormwater Permit
(MRP 3)
Courtesy Photo from Keep
Coyote Creek Beautiful
Ultimate Goal – Clean
Creeks
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
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 and Conditionally Exempted Discharges
C.17 Discharges Associated with Unsheltered Populations C.20 Cost Reporting
C.21 Asset Management
C.22 Annual Reports
3 C.3 New and Redevelopment - Green Stormwater
Infrastructure (GSI)
Goal: Build GSI to treat surface runoff pollution
and improve water quality
Accomplishments in FY 2025-2026:
Approved permits for 35 Regulated Projects (31 Private and 4 Public)
Inspected 163 projects, 23% of total inventory of 696 (minimum 20% required)
Selected for $3.16M EPA Smart Stormwater
Compliance Grant (in-lieu fee program)
Next Steps:
Implement EPA Grant (in-lieu fee)
Deliver future regional GSI projects - Venetian
Terrace and Kelley Regional Stormwater Capture
4 C.10 Trash Load Reduction
Goal: Prevent trash from entering storm sewer system
and waterways
Accomplishments in FY 2025-2026 :
Achieved and maintained 100% without offsets by 12/31/25 Installed additional 40 inlet-based (small) full trash capture devices (since 2011, this program treats over 15,300 acres in total) Continued on-land trash control programs (e.g.: Public Litter Cans, Neighborhood Litter Program, Street Sweeping, PBID, Adopt a Storm Drain (over 250 storm drains adopted to date)
Next Steps:
Install 2 large trash capture devices (Hartog and Blossom Hill) Maintain 100% throughout permit term until MRP 4.0
5 C.17 Discharges from Unsheltered Populations
Goal: Address impacts of encampments and pollutants generated by people living along waterways
Accomplishments in FY 2025-2026:
Cleared encampments at Columbus Park and Coyote Meadows Created No Return Zones along 30 miles of waterways
Removed over 1,700 tons of trash
Cleared 38 OLIVE sites
Over 2,600 RVs serviced by RVP3
Abated 533 re-encampments
Next Steps:
Enforce No Return Zones and abate re-encampments in
waterways
Continue OLIVE abatements/RVP3 support to address
biowastes
Continue quarterly creek assessments
6 Additional Provisions requirements
Provisions Accomplishments in FY 2025-2026 Next Steps
C.11 & C.12
Mercury and PCBs
Old Industrial Areas
Source Properties – 2 identified (total 10 identified to date) Moderate Properties - Initiated Large pipeline Cleaning for ongoing Enhanced O&M program (total 2 identified to date) Building Demolition Permit Process
Approximately 1,100 permits reviewed, 1 applicable structure identified
• Continue to identify, monitor, investigate, and enforce in Old Industrial area
• Continue to implement enhanced O&M in public ROW
along sites identified (Moderate properties)
C.15 Emergency
Firefighting
Discharges
Participated in Regional Firefighting Working Groups
Submitted the Regional Firefighting Discharges Report Phasing in environmentally friendly firefighting foam • Continue training firefighting personnel on BMP use
• Evaluate large industrial sites' permit compliance
C.20 Cost Reporting $88,483,000
in costs documented for FY 2025-2026
$8.3 mil for C.3: New and Redevelopment
$27.1 mil for C.10: Trash Load Reduction
$34.9 mil for C.17: Unsheltered Homeless Discharges
• Collect cost data for FY 2026-2027
• Integrate into upcoming Statewide stormwater cost
reporting framework
C.21 Asset
Management
Assessed the condition and implemented O&M for the City’s 572 GSI and 624 Full Trash Capture assets
• Continue implementing the Asset Management Plan
(includes O&M) 7
Permitting Next Steps
Water Board will be extending current
Stormwater Permit (2028)
January 2027
Administrative
Order
April 2027
Tentative
Order
May 2027
Water Board
Hearing
October 2027
Water Board
Permit
Adoption
July 2028
Permit
Effective Date
8 Recommendation: Adopt a resolution authorizing the certification and submittal of the Fiscal Year 2025- 2026 Stormwater Management Annual Report to the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board by September 30, 2026, in conformance with the Municipal Regional Stormwater National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit requirements, pursuant to the Federal Clean Water Act.
Jeff Provenzano, Director, Environmental Services
Rajani Nair, Deputy Director, Environmental Services
Jennifer Seguin, Deputy Director, Transportation
Garrett Haertel, Deputy Director, Public Works
Olympia Williams, Deputy Director, Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services Patrick Chung, Deputy Fire Chief, Fire
San José City Council
September 22, 2026
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