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Infrastructure and Planning Services <br />16: In September 2006, the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) issued the Willamette <br />Basin Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL). The TMDL includes pollutant load allocations for <br />certain water bodies in the Upper Willamette River watershed that do not meet water quality <br />standards. Eugene, along with other agencies within the watershed, is required to develop and <br />implement a plan to reduce certain pollutants including bacteria, temperature, and mercury, to <br />ultimately achieve compliance with water quality standards. These efforts will continue to draw <br />on resources in the City's stormwater program. <br />Regulations for locating; designing, constructing and' maintaining stormwater facilities were <br />adopted by City Council and went into effect in July 2006. Stormwater Development Standards <br />address the quality and quantity of stormwater runoff generated from developing sites. A <br />companion document, Eugene's Stormwater Management Manual, was adopted administratively <br />in July 2006 and provides "tools" or best management practices for meeting the requirements, <br />including low-impact development techniques. At the City Council's request, afollow-up work <br />session was. held in January 2007 to discuss green infrastructure and low impact development. <br />Council directed staff to conduct a comprehensive review of the Eugene Code and administrative <br />policies and procedures to identify barriers and regulatory incentive based approaches to increase <br />the use of low-impact development practices.. The low impact development code review will <br />begin in FY08. <br />The River Road -Santa Clara stormwater basin planning is being accomplished in collaboration <br />with Lane County. The outcome of the planning process will be a long term City and Lane <br />County strategy for managing stormwater in the basin including a stormwater capital <br />improvement plan. The capital improvement plan will include projects to decommission several <br />existing public drywells and retrofit others with stormwaterpre-treatment facilities in order to <br />protect groundwater quality and maintain compliance with Safe Drinking Water Act regulations. <br />17. During the 2006 construction season, 121ane miles were overlaid, 2.41ane miles of Hilyard <br />Street were reconstructed, and 8.81ane miles received slurry seal. Despite these <br />accomplishments, the City's street repair backlog continues to be a significant issue. <br />Additionally, with the anticipated discontinuation of the City/County Road Partnership <br />Agreement and decrease in other revenues historically dedicated. to ongoing street operations and <br />maintenance, the level of these services cannot be sustained with existing revenues. For FY08, <br />the annual deficit for operation and maintenance activities in the Road Fund is projected to <br />exceed $1.6 million. There is a direct correlation between having a sustainable proactive <br />maintenance program and reducing the City's street repair backlog. As an example, mitigating <br />surface distresses when first detected protects the street's structural integrity, which in turn <br />preserves pavement life. <br />The most significant issue for both the pavement preservation program and the ongoing street <br />operations and maintenance activities continues to be the ability to generate adequate, <br />sustainable revenue to appropriately fund Eugene's transportation system. Adequate-funding in <br />either operation and maintenance or capital preservation would reduce costs in the other program <br />area. Conversely, when neither on-going operations and maintenance activities nor capital <br />preservation activities are occurring at an appropriate level, then deferred work in both areas tend <br />to drive up overall system costs. <br />57 <br />