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Anaheim California - Anaheim stormwater capture credits protect waterways oceans as city grows 05 January 2024 ( news )
Anaheim , state California ( By Press Release office)
Jan 05,2024
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ANAHEIM , Calif
. ( Jan . 5 , 2024 ) — Anaheim is protecting waterways and renewing our drinking water supply by capturing rainfall and creating credits developers can use as they add housing , revitalize neighborhoods and expand visitor attractions that benefit our community .
Anaheim’s Stormwater Capture Credits allow developers to build in our city without having to implement and maintain extensive onsite stormwater systems , while still providing basic environmental protections such as screening storm drains , landscaping and street sweeping .
The Stormwater Capture Credits program will benefit Anaheim and the environment as city capture and diversion sites will collect even more stormwater than what onsite systems at development projects would .
Anaheim’s stormwater capture and diversion sites now collect and recycle enough water to serve 370 families a year .
How it works
Anaheim develops , runs and maintains two large sites that collect and filter stormwater , reducing runoff to channels and the Santa Ana River while replenishing our groundwater supply .
In early 2024 , developers will be able to buy credits created by city sites to use for their projects .
Replenishing groundwater
Captured stormwater is put into underground
water wells to eventually serve as drinking water .
Underground wells
provide about two - thirds of Anaheim’s drinking water and are a sustainable source of economical drinking water for our city .
Protecting waterways , oceans
Anaheim and all California cities are required to reduce debris and chemicals from stormwater before it reaches our streams , rivers and oceans under the California Clean Water Act and other regulations .
Since 2020 , Anaheim has worked with the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board , our local regulator , on a program to protect waterways while encouraging the building of more homes , redeveloping blighted areas and expanding visitor attractions , all city goals to better our community .
The Stormwater Capture Credits program will mean less runoff — and pollution
— from Anaheim makes its way to the ocean .
Capture site: Modjeska Park
The city operates a 224 - acre stormwater capture site at Modjeska Park in west Anaheim .
Twenty - five feet below the park’s parking lot , a 14 - foot concrete chamber captures rain that makes its way through the surface above .
Collected water is filtered for debris before entering the Orange County Water District’s groundwater system for eventual use as drinking water in homes and businesses .
The Modjeska Park site captures enough rainfall to serve up to 300 families yearly .
Diversion site: La Palma and Richfield
In Anaheim Canyon , an industrial area just east of the Orange ( 57 ) Freeway , stormwater that builds up at the intersection of La Palma Avenue and Richfield Road is diverted to the Orange County Water District’s Foster - Huckleberry Basin , where it works its way into underground wells that supply drinking water .
Future sites
Anaheim is looking at future collection sites to expand the Stormwater Capture Credits program .
Credits
Anaheim has $6 . 5 million worth of credits available , a number that will vary as credits are bought and additional capture sites are developed .
Credits now cost $26 . 88 to $32 . 79 , which is also subject to change .
Credit prices are based on the cost to design , plan , build , operate and maintain capture sites , the cost of developing sites to expand the program and the size of a development project seeking credits .
The Stormwater Capture Credit program started as a pilot for city projects in late 2023 .
Credits will be available for developers in February 2024 and then expand to all types of projects in April 2024 .
You can learn more at
Anaheim . net/Stormwater
.
Developers interested in credits can contact Anaheim ' s Keith Linker at ( 714 ) 765 - 4141 or
mailto:klinker@anaheim . net
.
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