1. Potomac Watershed Trash Summit March 16, 2006 Washington D.C. Scott Lines City of Long Beach www.lbstormwater.org

2. Potomac Watershed Trash Summit A Brief Comparison Key Issues TMDL Compliance

3. Why Long Beach? Long Beach has unique challenges just like your cities:

4. Why Long Beach? Our Watersheds

5. Why Long Beach? Long Beach is highly urbanized Population per square mile

6. Why Long Beach? Long Beach is located between the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers

7. Why Long Beach? Long Beach has taken a hard line on trash reduction

8. Why Long Beach? Watershed pollution causes impacts to tourism, habitat and water quality

9. Key Issues for Municipalities $$$ Construction Operations & Maintenance Build relationships State Local Local Regulatory Compliance Zero numeric target

10. Long Beach Trash TMDL Compliance Source Control Structural Best Management Practices

11. Long Beach Trash Source Control $16 Million Annually Curbside recycling28,372 tons Street sweeping12,272 tons Beach Cleanup4,500 tons Neighborhood events 2,000 tons

12. Long Beach Structural BMPs Catch Basin Inserts Vortex Separation Systems Trash Net Systems Imaginative Trash Capture Devices

13. Catch Basin Inserts $841,100 1,844 inserts installed in 600 catch basins Capture trash, debris, hydrocarbons & bacteria Abtech Industries, Inc.

14. Vortex Separation Systems $673,000 & $383,848 VSS units at two locations captured 15,015 lbs of trash last year CDS Technologies

16. Trash Net Systems $2,324,403 Located at five pump stations along LA River Captured 302,519 lbs of trash last year P.J. Hannah, Inc

18. Imaginative Trash Capture Devices $550,000 Proposed trash separation device at City pump station Expected to capture 227,675 lbs. of trash per year

19. The End Result

21. Thank You Alice Ferguson Foundation – Tracy Bowen and the “Trash Babes” U.S. EPA Region 3

22. Questions? Scott Lines, Stormwater Program Analyst City of Long Beach 333 W. Ocean Blvd., 9 th Fl. Long Beach, CA 90814 562-570-5938 scott_lines@longbeach.gov