Potomac Watershed Trash Summit March 16, 2006 Washington D.C.

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Potomac WatershedTrash SummitMarch 16,
2006Washington D.C.

• Scott Lines
• City of Long Beach
• www.lbstormwater.org

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Potomac Watershed Trash Summit

• A Brief Comparison
• Key Issues
• TMDL Compliance

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Why Long Beach?

• Long Beach has unique challenges just like your
  cities

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Why Long Beach?Our Watersheds
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Why Long Beach?Long Beach is highly urbanized
Population per square mile
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Why Long Beach?Long Beach is located between the
Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers
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Why Long Beach?Long Beach has taken a hard line
on trash reduction
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Why Long Beach?Watershed pollution causes
impacts to tourism, habitat and water quality
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Key Issues for Municipalities

• Construction
• Operations Maintenance
• Build relationships
• State Local
• Local Local
• Regulatory Compliance
• Zero numeric target

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Long BeachTrash TMDL Compliance

• Source Control
• Structural Best Management Practices

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Long Beach Trash Source Control 16 Million
Annually
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Long Beach Structural BMPs

• Catch Basin Inserts
• Vortex Separation Systems
• Trash Net Systems
• Imaginative Trash Capture Devices

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Catch Basin Inserts

• 841,100
• 1,844 inserts installed in 600 catch basins
• Capture trash, debris, hydrocarbons bacteria
• Abtech Industries, Inc.

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Vortex Separation Systems

• 673,000 383,848
• VSS units at two locations captured 15,015 lbs of
  trash last year
• CDS Technologies

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Trash Net Systems

• 2,324,403
• Located at five pump stations along LA River
• Captured 302,519 lbs of trash last year
• P.J. Hannah, Inc

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Imaginative Trash Capture Devices

• 550,000
• Proposed trash separation device at City pump
  station
• Expected to capture 227,675 lbs. of trash per
  year

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The End Result
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The End Result
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Thank You

• Alice Ferguson Foundation
• Tracy Bowen and the Trash Babes
• U.S. EPA Region 3

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Questions?

• Scott Lines, Stormwater Program Analyst
• City of Long Beach
• 333 W. Ocean Blvd., 9th Fl.
• Long Beach, CA 90814
• 562-570-5938
• scott_lines_at_longbeach.gov