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To:	Contra Costa County Flood Control District Board of Supervisors
From:	Brian M. Balbas, Public Works Director/Chief Engineer
Date:	September 17, 2019

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Lower Walnut Creek — California Department of Water Resources Integrated Water Management Plan Grant. Project No. 7520-6B8285

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 09/17/2019

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:	Paul Detjens, (925) 313-2394
cc:	Allison Knapp, Deputy Chief Engineer Tim Jensen, Flood Control Paul Detjens, Flood Control Catherine Windham, Flood Control

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: September 17, 2019
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Chief Engineer, Contra Costa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, or designee, to apply for the Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) grant from the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), in the amount of $1,434,425 for partial implementation of the Lower Walnut Creek Restoration Project, Martinez area.

FISCAL IMPACT:

For the requested grant amount of $1,434,425 of DWR IRWM funds, the FC District will pledge $1.2 million from FC District Zone 3B funds already budgeted for other parts of the project.

BACKGROUND:

Following the 2014 congressional “selective deauthorization” of the most downstream 4 miles of Walnut and Pacheco Creeks, the FC District has completed a community-based planning process that identified a preferred alternative for restoration work of Lower Walnut Creek. The project subsequently attracted grant funding from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that covered the design and regulatory permitting phases of work. Now the FC District is seeking grant funding for implementation of the restoration project.

The DWR requires participation in a regional IRWM group in order to be eligible for this type of Proposition 1 grant funding. The Lower Walnut Creek Restoration project has been included in the list of projects in the Bay Area IRWM Plan for many years. With DWR’s recent Proposition 1 grant solicitation, the Bay Area IRWM group has evaluated the projects in the IRWM Plan, and has selected eight projects, including Lower Walnut Creek Restoration for a joint application to DWR for IRWM Grant funding.

If selected by DWR for funding, the FC District would return to the Board for authorization to enter into a grant agreement with the San Francisco Estuary Partnership, who is leading this joint IRWM Grant application and intends to administer the grant on behalf of all eight projects.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

Without the Board of Supervisors’ approval, the FC District will not be able to apply for the DWR IRWM Grant Program described above.