Q&A
Discussion on stormwater management plan and mapping challenges
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Council Member Gennaro and DEP officials discuss the challenges and timeline for developing a comprehensive stormwater management plan and the related mapping work. They explore the relationship between the stormwater plan and the inland flood mapping requirements.
- DEP expresses the need for coordination between inland flood mapping and the stormwater master plan
- Discussion of the timeline for completing the stormwater master plan, with DEP requesting more time
- Gennaro emphasizes his approach of being deliberate to 'do it once and do it right'
Kathryn Mallon
0:25:23
Are you talking about the inland flood mapping
Jim Gennaro
0:25:27
from the countryside?
0:25:27
I'm just reading from the I'm just reading from the testimony here.
0:25:31
I have to hold it real I don't really have reading glasses anymore because they don't work, and so, there's kinda nothing they can do about my nearsightedness until I have my cataracts removed.
0:25:44
When I find the time to do that, I'll be able to, like, I'll be able to spot drones everywhere.
0:25:51
I won't say I have my cataracts taken out.
0:25:53
I just have to there's some challenges I have to overcome first before I can have that surgery.
0:25:59
But so I'm reading here, but we cannot commit the details of the timelines of the bill until we know how this work, meaning the the the, creation of the stormwater management plan, relates to the stormwater mapping work.
0:26:14
And so that's what I'm trying to understand, that sentence in there.
0:26:21
Any any light you could shed on
Kathryn Mallon
0:26:22
that, Wendy?
0:26:23
So the with the requirement to do the inland, flood mapping and then the overlay of this stormwater, master plan, it's just gonna require significant amount of coordination between those two pieces of work.
0:26:38
They they intersect each other.
0:26:39
I think there's a pretty tight timeline, this current bill to finish the master plan.
0:26:45
And I think with the complications of of having 2 models that need to make sure that they're fully coordinated, I I think a a little extra time is,
Jim Gennaro
0:26:55
warranted.
0:26:56
But the mapping's gonna take a long time.
0:26:58
Are, is it is it DEP's position that you wanna wait until a mapping exercise is complete before they can do this?
0:27:05
I don't think that's the position.
0:27:06
Is it?
0:27:07
Or or what is it?
Kathryn Mallon
0:27:08
No.
0:27:08
We've we've committed to finishing the inland stormwater mapping.
0:27:12
I I think it was in two and a half years from promulgation.
0:27:14
I can't remember off top of my head.
0:27:16
But,
Jim Gennaro
0:27:16
Whatever it is.
0:27:17
Yeah.
Kathryn Mallon
0:27:17
But this stormwater master planning for the whole system will take a a longer period of time.
Jim Gennaro
0:27:23
Yeah.
0:27:24
And I I I I think we have a date in the bill that's quite far out.
0:27:28
28.
0:27:29
Yeah.
0:27:29
Yeah.
0:27:30
Yeah.
0:27:30
2028.
0:27:31
So,
Kathryn Mallon
0:27:33
I think a a little bit of relief on that time period might be helpful for
Jim Gennaro
0:27:36
the stormwater mapping.
0:27:37
We thought that the, you know, we thought that the interval made sense between, like, the, you know, completion of the mapping and the completion of the stone water plan.
0:27:46
So, you know, nothing really inconsistent here.
0:27:49
Right?
0:27:50
I I I think we sort of built that in.
0:27:53
So, yeah.
0:27:56
So we look forward to having that conversation.
0:27:59
Like I said, I'm very, very deliberate in what I do to make sure that we, you know, do it once and do it right.
0:28:07
And Yeah.
Kathryn Mallon
0:28:08
Getting it right is really important.
Jim Gennaro
0:28:09
Yeah.
0:28:10
We we we The
Kathryn Mallon
0:28:11
complex system.
