Contact Person: Tim Stanton
Address: 5201 Ruffin Rd, Suite D Mail Stop O-336, San Diego, CA 92123
Telephone Number: (858) 694-2138
Fax Number: (858) 694-8928
E-mail Address: tstantpw@co.san-diego.ca.us
Web Page Address: http://sdcdpw.org (click on the Flood Control Link)
Purpose/Interests of Organization: We are charged with general watershed management within the County, including flood control, flood warning, and water quality.
Authority for Organization if part of a governmental process (Federal, State or Local regulation):
State Law - The San Diego County Flood Control District Act of 1985
Please list the Top Five Watershed Issues that you would like to see resolved:
1. Effective Regional Flood Warning/Floodplain Management
2. Coordinated Watershed Management activities between the County, cities, and the public
3. Science-based Watershed Water Quality Monitoring Programs
4. Development of cost-effective Best Management Practices and Procedures that will reduce impact on the environment without causing hardship for citizens, local agencies, and private businesses.
5. Development of practices and a mindset that looks at the watershed as a whole when considering development within a watershed.
Please list contributions that your organization could make to the Watershed program, challenges you are facing, lessons learned, remaining questions, special accomplishments:
The San Diego County Flood Control District Act of 1985 specifically charges the Flood Control District with the responsibility for all facets of Watershed Management and Water Resources in San Diego County, including water supply, flood management, hydrology, design, flood warning, watershed-based recreation, water quality enforcement, and watershed rehabilitation. The Act gives the District legal authority to operate outside of its primary region of jurisdiction to address and assist with watershed issues in drainages that affect its area of responsibility, such as within the cities of San Diego, the County of Riverside, and the Mexican State of Baja California.
In the past, the District focused primarily on Flood Control issues within the unincorporated county, nearly to the exclusion of all other issues that were charged to the District. In the year 2000, our current District manager realized that many watershed related issues had gradually surfaced within this county that could no longer be ignored. Many of these issues are related to the uncoordinated day to day activities of the various groups, businesses, citizens, and agencies that, when taken together, were adversely affecting the watershed as a whole.
By standing back and taking a fresh reading of the Flood Control District Act, the District has come to realize that it has an obligation to the land of San Diego county and its people, not to any one specific government entity. Consequently, it is now beginning the slow process of integrating is current functions of flood control and flood warning into the broader concept of watershed-based management.
Do you have display materials you would like to make available at a conference?
Yes. Specifically, Flood Control, Flood Warning, and FEMA Flood Insurance, but there will be additional materials available in the near future.