Uncertainty over grant for South Bay stormwater project
A map of the contributions of South Bay Cities to the Herondo Street storm drain. Image courtesy City of Hermosa Beach The Hermosa Beach City Council’s decision last week not to pursue a large regional stormwater project under the Greenbelt or beneath South Park has left the future of a $3.1 million grant the Beach Cities received to address the issue in limbo. Officials with the State Water Resources Control Board said this week that they were still considering whether Hermosa and the other signatories of the Beach Cities Enhanced Watershed Management Plan will be eligible to retain the funds, given that last week’s vote means that they will likely miss timelines set out in the grant to curb ocean pollution coming from the Herondo Street storm drain. Hermosa, along with Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, Torrance and the Los Angeles County Flood Control District, had originally identified an area under the Greenbelt between Second Street and Herondo as a location for an underground infiltration gallery, to collect some of the runoff that accumulates on roads and other impermeable surfaces during rainstorms, which would otherwise flow to the ocean and harm water quality. “We are…
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