Whos going to pay for it?
One task for the consultant team that’s preparing the Watershed Management Plan is to identify each of the plan’s benefits and match it with the benefiting agency. For instance, one element of the plan might be the retention and use within the watershed of all greenwaste. That would be an enormous benefit to the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation, which presently has to pick up the waste (in the green cans), carry it to a transfer station, process it into mulch and redistribute it throughout the city. So the Bureau, like any agency that would benefit from some aspect of the plan, could be expected to provide funding proportional to its benefit. For its part, the County Board of Supervisors has pledged to set aside funds annually for the next several years to provide financing for the Sun Valley project. The total set-aside will approximate the estimated cost of constructing a storm drain to control area flooding.
