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management measures. Educational signage, websites, materials, and reports will be coupled with rain <br />gardens, green channel conversions, pervious pavements/walkways, and other BMP demonstrations <br />outside this funding request to provide educational information. Monitoring will assess the efficacy of <br />these BMPs at removing pollutants and will provide information to help determine the number, type, and <br />siting of future BMPs. Through the HCP, the City is committed to spending $ioo,000 annually on water <br />quality and habitat protection measures that parallel WPP activities. <br />During implementation of the WPP, new and existing education and outreach efforts will be coordinated <br />among the WPP and its partners. WPP efforts will be aligned with educational resources and activities <br />associated with the regional Habitat Conservation Plan, City and University MS4s, and City Water Quality <br />Protection Plan (WQPP) to ensure that preserving water quality in the Upper San Marcos River is a common <br />theme throughout the watershed. Utilizing and expanding upon the existing education and outreach <br />framework will accomplish the WPP goal of significantly increased awareness of watershed pollution and <br />avoids duplication and expense. Specific activities include community workshops, watershed tours, and <br />other outreach efforts and will result in increased awareness of NPS issues and prevention of citizens, City, <br />County, University staff, tourists, visitors, and students. <br />Because this is an increasingly urbanizing watershed, a review of existing and newly adopted ordinances <br />will assist the City and County to quantify the effectiveness of ordinances pertaining to water quality and <br />complete ongoing revisions of land development codes. Project partners and SMWI Stakeholders will work <br />with City and County staff to interpret the findings of this comprehensive assessment and to entertain the <br />incorporation of additional LID and green infrastructure components. A series of design workshops will be <br />held with the development and engineering community for LID and green infrastructure application in new <br />and re -development projects. <br />Monitoring and data collection undertaken during the course of this project by the City, University, <br />groundwater district, river authority, and Texas Stream Team will be coordinated and used to track water <br />quality and better understand nonpoint source contributions to the river. <br />Non-structural management measures will also be implemented over the next two years. These efforts will <br />be coordinated with WQPP and HCP activities, for which there are over $1oo,000 in matching funds <br />earmarked. This year, nearly $ioo,000 in private funds was raised to begin preparing for this task and a <br />final report will be issued with the completed WPP. <br />It is well understood by WPP stakeholders that implementing the Upper San Marcos WPP will yield the <br />following benefits to the community and the watershed: <br />0 Reduced nonpoint source pollution (NPS) and prevention of increases in NPS in the future. <br />0 Demonstrated and proven BMP options that improve water quality <br />0 Site-specific retrofits for LID and green infrastructure. <br />0 Increased decision-making capacity to preserve water quality through local permitting, <br />ordinances, and regulations. <br />0 Increased accuracy of tools available for decision makers to calculate effects of future land use <br />changes and development activities on NPS loadings. <br />0 Additional data to adequately understand and potentially manage TDS origins in the springs and <br />river. <br />0 Coordinated water resources and related environmental outreach and education efforts across the <br />watershed. <br />0 Significant leveraging of funding to implement water quality protection strategies. <br />Page 12 of 27 <br />