Identify opportunities for regional partnerships that can contribute to local sustainable water supplies, mitigate flood risk, and improve water quality.
Capturing stormwater and dry weather runoff at parks and recreation facilities may support multiple benefits including increasing local water supply, improving water quality in waterways, and mitigating flood risk.
As large open space areas in an urban landscape, parks offer opportunities to divert and capture stormwater and urban runoff. This may be achieved with infiltration facilities to recharge groundwater, capture and use facilities for a local source of water supply, and diversion to downstream regional water recycling systems. Local flooding may also be mitigated through diverting stormwater flows to parks. Additional funding may be available to implement stormwater capture systems at a regional scale through partnerships with other City agencies and the County.