.:Sonoma Creek CCA
Fact Sheet

.: James V. Fitzgerald Marine Reserve CCA
Fact Sheet
Pilot Project Write-Up
 

See Sonoma Creek Updates ê

See Fitzgerald Marine Reserve Updates.ê

Protecting Water Quality in Our Critical Coastal Area
(Fitzgerald Marine Reserve CCA)
[Public Workshop Announcement] [Assessment Document]
 

CCA Pilot Project Available Documents Nonpoint Source Watershed Assessment: James Fitzgerald Marine Reserve Critical Coastal Area (DRAFT, September 2008) CCA Public Workshop Documents (January-February 2007) California and the World Ocean Conference Presentation on the Critical Coastal Areas Program (2006) Critical Coastal Areas Program Presentation Using James Fitzgerald Marine Reserve Pilot Watershed as an Example (June 7, 2006) James Fitzgerald Marine Reserve Study Area Map (July 2006 Draft) James V. Fitzgerald Marine Reserve: State Water Quality Protection Area (includes discharges, outlets, springs & seeps) Go to ABAG's CCA web page.

SF Bay Pilot: Sonoma Creek CCA

Sonoma Creek Critical Coastal Areas Pilot Project Winter Workshop (February 1, 2007)

James Fitzgerald Reserve Pilot Project, San Mateo County, Winter Workshop
(February 7, 2007)

Update-June 2006

On May 23, 2006, staff from the Bay Conservation and Development Commission and the California Coastal Commission met with representatives from the San Francisco Estuary Institute, the Association of Bay Area Governments, the Sonoma Ecology Center and the Southern Sonoma Resource Conservation District to discuss the Sonoma Creek CCA. The purpose of the meeting was to bring some of the main participants together and obtain feedback on the best way to move forward. We identified that the number of water-related projects and programs in the watershed provide an opportunity to reinvigorate the Sonoma Creek Conservancy, an organization that has worked on watershed issues in the past. We decided that the Conservancy would be the best forum to discuss the projects and, where possible, find ways to integrate them. We also discussed the most appropriate way to get the public involved, the opportunity for developing a streamlining process to provide incentives for implementation and an identification of the next steps. SFEI and ABAG provided us with an overview of their role in the project including existing work under Phase I and if funded, under Phase II. SFEI and ABAG have started to review some of the Total Maximum Daily Load workplans, have begun compiling maps, and assessing data layer needs. The next steps include selecting a date for a presentation or introduction of the CCA program and the development of matrix that would include the names and locations of existing plans, data, research and other work that already exists for the watershed.

Update-May 2006

Staff from BCDC and Coastal Commission met with Sonoma Ecology Center (SEC) in February 2006 to establish the next steps for the Sonoma Creek CCA pilot project. Topics discussed included: defining the most appropriate form for the Sonoma CCA to take and how that would be defined by the important issues in the watershed; identifying the appropriate participants; developing or identifying the appropriate forum; determining the roles for the main actors; and creating a list of existing resources as a starting place for work on the CCA. Some of the next steps include: identifying the appropriate roles and responsibilities for the initial stages of the pilot project for SEC, the Sonoma Resource Conservation District (RCD), BCDC and other major participants in the CCA pilot project; developing a matrix of existing information, reports and projects that affect the watershed; and convening the Sonoma Creek Watershed Conservancy for the CCA pilot project and the other watershed and water quality work that is going on in the Valley. Additionally, BCDC and Coastal Commission staff plan to meet with SEC and SFEI in the end of May, 2006 to coordinate the technical work on the CCA project and proposed work that SEC would undertake under a grant proposal. (Lindy Lowe: 415-352-3642).

Update-January 2006

One meeting has occurred with state agencies discussing the status of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) development in this watershed, and the need for stakeholder coordination in ongoing efforts to develop and implement appropriate NPS Management Measures in the watershed. For more information, please contact Lindy Lowe, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, at lindyl@bcdc.ca.gov.

SF Bay Area Pilot: James Fitzgerald Marine Reserve CCA

See the Pilot CCA Subcommittee Meeting Summaries for:

June 7, 2006, August 10, 2006, December 12, 2006
March 2, 2007, April 24, 2007, May 24, 2007, June 19, 2007, August 29, 2007, November 6, 2007
January 9, 2008, March 6, 2008

Update-June 2006

The Pilot Subcommittee met June 7, 2006. At this meeting, Rainer (SFEI) and Kathleen (ABAG) gave a slide presentation on the CCA Project focusing on their roles for the project including developing an interactive GIS watershed-based tool for local government and other local stakeholders. They presented a Project Timeline (05/06-11/07) and Progress Markers. We summarized major land use categories and nonpoint source pollution issues in the Mid Coast watersheds. We also mentioned the various watershed and engineering proposals going forward for full proposals that mention coordination with the CCA program, tried to identify and encourage linkages between the various proposals, and noted the areas that could be highlighted in the grants. We discussed holding a full stakeholder meeting, possibly a watershed stewardship event, sometime in the Winter of 2006. At that point, SFEI and ABAG will be progressing on technical tasks, developing surveys, and could benefit from input from the larger stakeholder group. Our next CCA Pilot subcommittee meeting will be Thursday, August 10, 2006, 1 pm-4 pm at the Montara Water and Sanitary District office.

Update-May 2006

Since the Kick-off meeting for this CCA Pilot Project in October 2005, we formed a Pilot Subcommittee, comprised of staff from the following agencies and organizations: Coastal Commission, Regional and State Water Boards, San Mateo County (SMC), SMC Parks and Recreation, San Mateo County RCD, MidCoast Community Council, Montara Water and Sanitary District, and an Ad Hoc MidCoast Community Representative. The Pilot Subcommittee has met twice since January 2006. We discussed and agreed upon roles and responsibilities for the participating state agencies and local organizations in the Subcommittee. We identified goals and objectives for the Project. We agreed on the type of Pilot Subcommittee (primarily a steering committee with some technical expertise), meeting frequency, and means of providing input as well as structure, decision-making, and participation. We have started to identify targets for the project. We have drafted a CCA write-up that still needs to be finalized. We have started to make progress on Watershed Assessment tasks. For examples, we began discussing initial identification of land use categories/ Management Measures (MMs) applicable to the CCA. SFEI has been brought on as a consultant to the project (as well as to Sonoma Creek CCA and Watsonville Slough CCA). Primarily, SFEI will work on technical tasks related to the assessment (e.g., causes/sources of impairment, MM evaluation, expected load reductions, impervious surface assessment). SFEI will coordinate closely with the Pilot Subcommittee. Next steps include: continuing the land uses/MM discussion; continuing work on other watershed assessment tasks; completing draft matrix of information sources; holding another full stakeholder meeting; and working with SFEI to coordinate the technical components of the project. (Lisa Sniderman: 415-904-5270)
 

Update-January 2006

The Coastal Commission, State Water Board, and Regional Board held a kick-off meeting in Montara for the pilot CCA project at Fitzgerald Reserve. At the meeting, we: (1) began to collaboratively set and agree upon some outcomes and objectives for the pilot project; (2) collectively identified the information that we have and don’t have about the Reserve and watersheds surrounding the Reserve; and (3) identified some next steps for moving forward.

We focused discussion at the meeting on the first three sections of the Watershed Assessment outline, and spent some time using a draft watershed matrix (developed by Coastal Commission staff) to begin to identify what we know and don’t know about each of the surrounding watersheds. We also described some of the key elements required for watershed plans to receive federal funding and indicated those elements that may be appropriate for technical support.

Next steps include reviewing the matrix and adding additional details to help us start work on some of the sections in the watershed assessment. For more information, please contact Lisa Sniderman, California Coastal Commission, at lsniderman@coastal.ca.gov.