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$3.5M Dept. of Ecology grants will support Tacoma stormwater projects Article By Todd Matthews, Editor Image Courtesy City of Tacoma The City of Tacoma will receive nearly $3.5 million in grants from the Washington State Department of Ecology. A $277,722 grant will help pay for lab testing and field testing of hazardous phosphorous levels in stormwater runoff at Wapato Lake. City staff will work with The City of University of WashTacoma has nine ington Tacoma staff formally recognized on a project that will "sub-watersheds," gauge the effectivethat include North ness of water treatTacoma, Foss Wament residuals in terway, T-Street/ removing phosphoLower Puyallup, rous levels, accordTidefl ats, Northing to City staff. The east Tacoma, WestUniversity of Washern Slopes, Leach ington Tacoma has Creek, Flett Creek, already done preand Joe’s Creek. A liminary lab testing $3 million grant in this area. will help pay for a A $170,000 grant project that aims to will help pay to asmanage stormwasist with the impleter within the Flett mentation of the City Creek Watershed of Tacoma’s National in South Tacoma Pollutant Discharge by expanding the Elimination System Gravel Pit regional permit, including detention facility. equipment purchasAccording to City es, staff training, staff, a facility exdatabase improvepansion will allow ments, funding staff, stormwater to coland the design of lect at this location stormwater retrofits during peak storm and Local Improveevents before being ment District (LID) released slowly to projects. Specifically, protect downstream the grant will be receiving waters used to complete the from erosion and LID storm design high storm flows. portion of the Prairie Line Trail to provide water quality treatment within this project and improve stormwater reaching Thea Foss Waterway; complete the LID stormwater design for the South Tacoma Way project to provide water quality treatment and flow control within the Flett
Creek Watershed in South Tacoma; and fund the purchase of new technology to assist with the maintenance of permeable surfaces, according to City staff. Finally, a $3 million grant will help pay for a project that aims to manage stormwater within the Flett Creek Watershed by expanding the Gravel Pit regional detention facility. According to City staff, the facility expansion will allow stormwater to collect there during peak storm events before being released slowly to protect downstream receiving waters from erosion and high storm flows. Flett Creek Watershed covers nearly 7,200 acres of mostly residential, light
commercial, and industrial areas in South Tacoma, and flows into Snake Lake and Wapato Lake. The project will also establish an “in-lieu-of detention” program, which will be offered to the development community within this watershed. According to City staff, developers will have the opportunity to pay into this program instead of designing, permitting, and constructing detention facilities on their properties. City transportation projects will also be able to participate in the “in-lieu-of detention” program. Tacoma City Council approved three separate resolutions April 15 to formally accept the grants.