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REPORT - AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN SONOMA COUNTY WATER AGENCY AND THE CITY OF SANTA ROSA FOR NUTRIENT OFFSET CREDITS (PHOSPHORUS)
BACKGROUND: The City of Santa Rosa has a zero-net loading for phosphorus in its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) discharge permit. This phosphorus limit is met through the Nutrient Offset Program, where the City develops projects that remove phosphorus from the watershed (Nutrient Offset Projects). The City has successfully completed three Nutrient Offset Projects, preventing approximately 19,000 pounds of phosphorus from entering local waterways in the Laguna de Santa Rosa Watershed. The phosphorus credits generated from these projects have either been used or are expired and the City needs to develop new projects to maintain permit compliance in respect to phosphorus.
Staff has been working with the Sonoma County Water Agency to develop a sediment removal and creek restoration project on the Laguna, known as Laguna Restoration Rea...
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