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LA SUSTAINABLE WATER PROJECT: DOMINGUEZ CHANNEL AND MACHADO LAKE WATERSHEDS This report is a product of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, and Colorado School of Mines. AUTHORS Kathryn Mika, Terri Hogue, Stephanie Pincetl, Elizabeth Gallo, Mark Gold AFFILIATIONS UCLA Grand Challenges, Sustainable LA 2248 Murphy Hall Los Angeles, CA 90005-1405 UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability La Kretz Hall, Suite 300 Box 951496 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1496 Colorado School of Mines 1500 Illinois Street Golden, CO 80401 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This research was supported by the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation (LASAN). Many thanks to LASAN for providing ideas and direction, facilitating meetings and data requests, as well as sharing the many previous and current research efforts that provided us with invaluable infor- mation on which to build. Further, LASAN provided edits which helped to deepen and improve this report. Any findings, opinions, or conclusions are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of LASAN. We would further like to acknowledge the many organizations which facilitated this research through providing data, conversations, and insights into the integrated water management world in the Los Angeles region: LADWP, LACDPW, LARWQCB, LACFCD, WRD, WBMWD, MWD, SCCWRP, the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, and many others. 1 | LA Sustainable Water Project; Dominguez Channel & Machado Lake Contents Executive Summary .................................................................................................................. 4 Background ............................................................................................................................... 8 I. Introduction .................................................................................................................. 8 A. The City of Los Angeles ............................................................................................... 8 B. Dominguez Channel and Machado Lake Watersheds .................................................. 9 a. Study Area, Hydrology, Geography ............................................................................. 9 b. Recycled Water and Groundwater .............................................................................. 11 II. Dry Weather Urban Runoff and Stormwater Runoff ................................................. 13 A. Introduction ................................................................................................................ 13 B. Regulations, Current Practices ................................................................................... 14 a. Dominguez Channel Policy Documents ..................................................................... 14 C. Proposition O projects ................................................................................................ 20 D. Dominguez Channel Modeling Background .............................................................. 21 a. Modeling Selection and Comparison ......................................................................... 21 b. Model Setup, Calibration, Validation ......................................................................... 21 c. BMP Technologies in SUSTAIN ............................................................................... 27 d. Cost Background ........................................................................................................ 28 e. BMP Scenarios ........................................................................................................... 28 E. Dominguez Channel Modeling Results ...................................................................... 34 a. Water Quality Modeling ............................................................................................. 34 b. Modeling to Further Improve Water Quality ............................................................. 38 c. DC TMDL Analysis ................................................................................................... 42 d. Industrial Land Use Modeling Analysis ..................................................................... 44 i. WQ Impacts of Industrial Land Uses ......................................................................... 44 ii. WQ Impacts of Varying Industrial Land Use EMCs ................................................. 45 e. Private Land Redevelopment ...................................................................................... 51 F. Policy Discussion ....................................................................................................... 53 a. Water Quality Monitoring Data Gaps ........................................................................ 53 b. Data Recommendations and Proposed Solutions ....................................................... 57 c. Industrial Stormwater ................................................................................................. 58 i. IGP Permit Background.............................................................................................. 58 2 | UCLA Grand Challenges, IoES, CSM July 2017 ii. Data Management- SMARTS .................................................................................... 61 iii. Data - EMCs ............................................................................................................... 65 d. Improving Water Quality in the DC watershed .......................................................... 70 III. Machado Lake ............................................................................................................ 71 A. Introduction ................................................................................................................ 71 B. Machado Lake Policy Documents .............................................................................. 72 a. TMDL Summary ........................................................................................................ 72 b. ML Nutrients background .......................................................................................... 73 c. Current Water Quality Improvement Efforts .............................................................. 75 C. Model Setup, Calibration, Validation ......................................................................... 78 a. Modeling Selection and Comparison ......................................................................... 78 b. SUSTAIN Setup, Calibration, Validation .................................................................. 78 c. SLAM Setup, Calibration, Validation ........................................................................ 83 d. BMP Technologies in SUSTAIN ............................................................................... 87 e. BMP Technologies in SLAM ..................................................................................... 88 f. BMP Scenarios: SUSTAIN ......................................................................................... 90 D. Modeling Results ........................................................................................................ 94 E. Attaining ML Nutrient TMDL Targets .................................................................... 101 IV. Wastewater and Recycled Water .............................................................................. 107 A. Introduction .............................................................................................................. 107 B. Terminal Island Water Reclamation Plant ................................................................ 108 C. Regulatory Requirements ......................................................................................... 110 V. Groundwater ............................................................................................................. 114 A. Introduction .............................................................................................................. 114 B. Fully Utilizing Existing Groundwater Pumping Rights ........................................... 115 C. Available Dewatered Space ...................................................................................... 117 D. WRD Plans for WCBCB Replenishment ................................................................. 119 E. Silverado Aquifer Saline Plume Remediation .......................................................... 124 F. Regulatory Requirements ......................................................................................... 125 a. Recycled Water Recharge ........................................................................................ 125 b. Stormwater Recharge ............................................................................................... 128 c. Salt and Nutrient Management Plans ....................................................................... 131 G. Potential to Expand Groundwater Recharge and Extraction .................................... 132 VI. Conclusions .............................................................................................................. 134 3 | LA Sustainable Water Project; Dominguez Channel & Machado Lake VII. Appendix A – City modeling efforts in Machado Lake ........................................... 136 VIII. Appendix B West Coast and Central Basins ............................................................ 138 i. Storage Rights..........................................................................................................