Transcript Pikes Peak Stormwater Task Force

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Managing stormwater
 Stormwater runoff is generated when rain and
snowmelt flows over land or impervious surfaces
and does not percolate into the ground.
 Managing stormwater means:
 Safely/effectively directing storm flows
 Slowing and de-energizing water flow, reducing
destructive potential
 Protecting lives, property and infrastructure
 Protecting water quality
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How does stormwater affect me?
 Road closures
 Costly repairs
 Business closures
 Insurance rates
 Utility rates
 Personal safety
 Road and bridge
integrity
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Current stormwater system ASCE 2012 report card
Capacity
D-
Operations & Maintenance
D+
Condition
F
Drainage Basin Planning
Program & Funding
F
Public Safety
D-
Resilience
D
Overall
D6
Funding needs (2013 dollars)
 Capital projects - El Paso County within Fountain Creek
Watershed, does not include post-fire or flooding needs:
High priority
Medium priority
Low priority
$186,955,000
$372,912,000
$63,565,000
TOTAL
$706,679,000
 Non-Capital - annual drainage operations and
maintenance, permit (MS4), water quality, planning studies
and corrugated metal pipe replacement needs:
$13.9M/year
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The price of procrastination
(capital projects only)
Current estimate of
necessary capital
improvements:
If we started these projects
25 years ago, project cost
would have been:
$706 million
$15.85 million per year for 25 years
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Years from today
$47.66 million per year for 25 years What we’ll have to pay over the
next 25 years because of delay.
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Stormwater Task Force
 Formed in 2012 by Co.
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Springs City Council, El Paso
County Commissioners,
Springs Utilities
Comprised of engineers,
citizens, business people
Goal: assess the community’s
stormwater needs and
propose a solution
Legal, economic, engineering
analysis
Public meetings and polling
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Research: Economic impact of a solution
 Increase in jobs, income, economic output and sales taxes
 250 new, well-paying local jobs per year
 $40 million increase in gross metropolitan product
 Lower insurance rates
 Improved roads and bridges
 Stable funding and well-maintained
infrastructure to attract new
businesses
Zwirlein and Crowley study
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Community benefits
 Public safety
 Protection of public and
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private property, including
roads and bridges
Protection of water quality
Enhanced neighborhoods
Waterways as community
amenities
Economic development
Higher property values
Lower insurance rates
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Our proposal
 Regional stormwater
authority
 Impervious surface fee to
fund:
 List of stormwater
projects (55%)
 Emergency needs and
master planning (10%)
 Maintenance (35%)
 The average household
would pay $7.70 per
month
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Our proposal
 Governed by a board of elected officials and advised by
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citizen and technical committees
Administration capped at 1% to minimize overhead
Work contracted to
local vendors as much
as possible to maximize
economic benefit
Capital portion expires
automatically
The fee is fixed and will
NEVER go up
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Common questions – does the solution:
 Address the problem? A dedicated funding source.
 Limit bureaucracy? 1% administrative costs limits spending and
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number of employees.
Tell you where the money’s going? A priority project list.
Ask if we are doing our job? Capital projects ends, just like PPRTA.
Avoid duplication? A coordinated regional solution led by a master
plan.
Improve our economy? UCCS economist study says it will create
hundreds of long-term jobs for local residents.
Fair? All property owners will contribute. Your jurisdiction will
receive what its taxpayers pay in.
Charge reasonable rates? $7.70/month for the average homeowner.
Let citizens have a voice? Dozens of public meetings and hundreds
of phone calls in plan development, and you get final say on Nov. 4.
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Questions, comments, protests?
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719-310-3235
PO Box 2533, Co. Springs, 80903
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