Local Management Measures

In addition to adoption and implementation of the Metro Water District’s model ordinances, local governments within the District are required to undertake a number of complementary local management measures included in the Watershed Management Plan.  These measures form a comprehensive program for addressing watershed and stormwater issues within the Metro Water District.  In addition, the Plan also provides additional optional management measures which are intended to serve as a resource for additional watershed management efforts at the local level.

Both the required and optional local management measures are organized into the following functional categories:

• Legal Authority – Stormwater and watershed protection model ordinances.
• Watershed Planning – Community-wide and inter-jurisdictional planning efforts and activities at the watershed scale.
• Land Development – Programs and activities focused on the site-level impacts of development projects.
• Asset Management – Ongoing management, operations and maintenance of stormwater system assets.
• Pollution Prevention – Programs that reduce or eliminate potential pollutants to the stormwater system and downstream receiving waters.
• Watershed Conditions Assessment – Chemical, biological, and habitat monitoring of streams.
• Education and Public Awareness – Public education and involvement programs related to stormwater and nonpoint source pollution.
• Resource-specific Measures – Programs based on conditions within a local watershed that necessitate additional protection.

More detail on the local management measures can be found in Sections 5 and 6 of the Watershed Management Plan.