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Draft date: 14 November 2006 Project Proposal: Developing an Adaptive Management Approach for City Streets — Integrating Operations, Monitoring and Outreach Background and Purpose Roughly 40% of our urban environment consists of impervious surfac e majority of which are roads and sidewalks. These impervious surfaces lie in public o rship'and are typically managed by a single entity using public funds. Consequently, tr ous opportunities exist to work with a single entity on a large-scale to make meaningfupro e�nts to water quality. The City of Saint Anthony is recognized for and takeste aesthete' the city and its responsiveness to the needs of homeowners and bus des, by providing se such as sidewalk plowing and (request -driven?) street sw Whil ost cities in t1i V ssippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO)swe . . eir e city only twics�� er year, in its current Local Surface Water Management PIan, St.yy"obli ates itself to "street sweep at least five times per year. In reality, they,sweep at least se tees per year. Still, a recent study' identifying best sweeping practicei.I.e.commends eve n+i frequent sweepings to remove pollutants before they are washed into the storza ewer system and1:surface waters. The portion of Saint Anthony located within the The future of regulation asswith the Cf&" discharge permits such a ''tired by citie water quality leavin city an pting mangy Anthony will active"ft wate uality and The purpose & o'el years to d op a mana nt" is a syste` prac.t learning fron understand how imper that define sizes feedb manag ementg , re"; 4 in [wma,dischar$6s into the Mississippi River. *'ater Act'�y require tighter restrictions on :or stormsdWer systems. By characterizing the anent operations to remove pollutants, Saint ;te regulatory changes. amunity in the MWMO for the next three to street operations. "Adaptive 3, c(?ntinually improving management policies and �rR f operational programs. In other words, by ace's are managed and identifying the kinds of information of information can be created to improve the effectiveness of water (Figure 1). Education and outrea � ed with this effort will clarify for the public the relationship between clean streets and clean�x ater and be linked to information for property owners to reduce their contributions to non -point source pollution. Schilling, J.G. 2005. Street Sweeping — Report No. 1, State of the Practice. Prepared for Ramsey - Washington Metro Watershed District (http://www.rwmwd.org). North St. Paul, Minnesota. June 2005. 32