Title: Santa Clara Valley Water District Watershed Stewardship Plans for Lower Peninsula, West Valley, and Guadalupe February 23, 2004 Level 2 Meeting - SPW
1Santa Clara Valley Water DistrictWatershed
Stewardship Plans for Lower Peninsula, West
Valley, and Guadalupe February 23,
2004Level 2 Meeting - SPW
2Meeting Objectives
- Debrief on project status for new attendees
- Review the project schedule
- Reach consensus on project terminology
- Receive input on stakeholder engagement
strategies - Receive input on management issues/questions
- Receive input on coarse-scale assessment
methodology
3Lower Peninsula Watershed Area
West Valley Watershed Area
Guadalupe Watershed Area
4Objectives for 3 Stewardship Plans
- Synthesize Existing and Historic Information
- Clarify and Identify Watershed Management
Problems/Issues - Improve or Develop Stewardship Opportunities
5 6Discussion topicsStakeholder Engagement Strategy
- Management Questions/Issues
- Existing Conditions (e.g. where are the hardened
channels?) - Issues to be Addressed through the Planning
Process (e.g., clarify sensitive areas along the
creeks) - Collective Vision for Each Watershed
- District Staff Document - Board Linkage?
- WRPC Linkage?
- Natural Food Protection?
- Other key stakeholders?
7Review Stakeholder online Comments on TM3
- Level 2 needs to include all WMI / SPW
participants including regulatory agencies. - Invitations / mailing list needs updating and
action. - How will meeting outcomes and other stewardship
elements be measured? - Process for submitting Action Items for
consideration to District Management?
8Stakeholder Engagement Strategy
Background information - not included in
presentation
9Relations to Other Groups
Flood Management Subgroup
(FMS)
Stewardship Plan Workgroup
(SPW)
San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority
(JPA)
Others
Lead Stakeholder Process for SP Development
Offer insight on agency policy direction
relevant to stewardship proposals with emphasis
on flood protection and habitat preservation
issues
Provide insight to Stewardship Plan team on FMS
related issues
Offer additional perspectives to SPs work
Guadalupe Adaptive Management Team
WMI Core Group
Continue to support Stewardship Planning Work
Offer technical insight on CIPs and related
regulatory compliance issues
Includes the whole watershed
-monitoring -sedimentation
San Francisquito Watershed Council
Background information - not included in
presentation
Offer insight on stewardship proposals from the
perspective of a watershed-wide, community-based
forum with emphasis on integrated,
multi-objective solutions
10District Internal Stakeholders
Background information - not included in
presentation
Others
11Overall Approach for Synthesizing Existing
Information
- Coarse Scale
- Main characteristics of each Watershed organized
by functional indicator - Provide foundation for understanding stewardship
issues, problems, or opportunities - Provide basis for selection of more detailed
analysis objectives or areas (e.g., watersheds or
creeks - 3) - Finer Scale
- Field Work (new data) for the areas identified
- Information for conceptual design solutions
12Stewardship Plans Coarse And Fine Scale
Indicators
13Review Stakeholder Online Comments for TM 4A
(4.2 and 4.3)
- GIS Coordination and data access?
- Information and reports identified have been
distributed to the project team. - Use of interviews with District Staff to help
identify projects needed and wanted by the
District will help ensure follow through. - Fine-scale methods will be explained in greater
detail in TM4b. - Rosgen will be used where possible.
14Relationship to Emerging NFP Framework
Background information - not included in
presentation
15NFP Objectives and Stewardship Indicators
Background information - not included in
presentation
16Coarse Scale Analysis
- Data Compilation
- WMI Characterization Report
- WMI Assessment Reports
- FAHCE Summary Report
- SCVURPPP Sediment Impairment Report
- GIS Layers land ownership, zoning, existing and
historical land use, imperviousness, mining - Analysis
- Longitudinal Profiles 3rd Order streams (e.g.,
main stem, tributaries) - Geomorphic Process Domains Potential Erosion
- Landslide Susceptibility
- Identify Data Gaps And Strategize How to Deal
with These data gaps
17Rough classification of the mainstem Permanente
Creek slopes
Approach will be adapted to local conditions.
based on Montgomery and Buffington (1997)
18Permanente Creek erosion hazard
- Preliminary - methodology being refined.
- Current map does not include geology, land use,
or mass wasting - Results provide foundation for general
stewardship planning (e.g., ordinances)
19Guadalupe Overview
- Example Template - not first draft
- Additional historical ecology and background on
water supply and flood protection objectives to
define feasible restoration trajectories. - Additional value added maps and summary tables
(e.g., erosion hazard) - Need to implement coarse-scale analysis
20Stakeholder Online Comments on Guadalupe Summary
- No comments on template format suggests
miscommunication to stakeholders on purpose of
document. - Several factual corrections and additions to be
considered in developing draft. - Geographical boundaries to be addressed in
watershed plan (e.g., Alviso Slough)?
21Proposed Finer Scale Analysis
- Based on a refined version of model used in
Coyote Creek (combined HGM/IBI) - Fill in the Data Gaps for watershed or creeks
selected or identified - Model provides more detailed functional analysis
than previously available - Model uses existing and newly collected field
data - Develop conceptual design solutions
22Watershed Summary Tables
- Define impacts from various projects, activities,
and policies - Define functional areas for analysis
- Identify key issues and management questions
- Relates issues and indicators to District Ends
policies - Go to Tables (handouts)
Background information - not included in
presentation
23 Projects / Impacts / Ends Policies / Indicators
Background information - not included in
presentation
24 Projects / Impacts / Ends Policies / Indicators
Red X indicates primary domain of other key
stakeholders.
Background information - not included in
presentation
25Next Steps
- Next Meeting March 2004
- Websitewww.valleywater.org/_wmiClick on
Stewardship Plan - User Id spw passwordstewardship03