1. What is my job? To eliminate and reduce pollutant discharges going to storm drains.

2. Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District When it rains or when an area is hosed down, chemicals and eroded sediment enter the storm drain inlet …… How Does Pollution Occur?

3. …and enter one of the local ponding basins designed to recharge the groundwater aquifer…

4. …or the pollutants travel to detention basins which discharge into local waterways such as the San Joaquin River.

5. Storm Water flows to Storm Water flows to: 5 % 25% 70% 17,000 acre feet per year = 5.5 billion gallons = 46,000 Fresno Residents

16. On average, 27,000 acre feet is transferred from FID into flood control basins and infiltrated back into the ground water each year 8.8 billion gallons 74,000 Fresno homes for one year

17. Storm Water Connections Air Pollution Trash Industrial Waste Water Water Conservation Hazardous Waste Storage Energy Conservation Consumer Behavior

18. Storm Water P2 Connections Trash Solid Waste Water Conservation Consumer Behavior Construction Site Trash Segregation and Recycling Adjust sprinklers according to agronomic rates IPM – less toxic runoff Less packaging – less trash

22. Blocked Storm Drain Inlet

23. Sediment Track Out

25. What is behind door number 2 2

26. Illicit Discharge

34. HOW TO CONTACT ME AT THE FRESNO METROPOLITAN FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT Daniel Rourke danielr@fresnofloodcontrol.org 456-3292