Project Information

The cities of Hermosa Beach, Torrance, Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, and the Los Angeles County Flood Control District formed the Beach Cities Group to develop an Enhanced Watershed Management Program (EWMP) to comply with the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board's (Regional Board) 2012 NPDES Permit, the Santa Monica Bay Beaches Bacteria (SMBBB) Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) and Santa Monica Bay Toxics TMDL. The Beach Cities EWMP was submitted to the Regional Board on February 9, 2016 and was approved by the Executive Officer of the Regional Board via a letter dated April 18, 2016. The Beach Cities Group was directed by the Executive Officer of the Regional Board to begin implementation of the EWMP immediately, including construction of identified capital projects.

 Complementary to regional storm water structural projects, green infrastructure projects and programs are critical to achieve water quality compliance, as detailed in the Beach Cities EWMP. Green Streets are typically smaller local control measures in available rights-of-way and augment regional structural projects to achieve water quality objectives. The Hermosa Avenue Green Street Project was identified in the 2016 Beach Cities EWMP as a distributed structural project to receive and treat dry-weather and some stormwater runoff from an approximately 47-acre drainage area and is included in the City’s budget as Capital Improvement Project #164.

The City of Torrance successfully applied for a Proposition 12 Santa Monica Bay Restoration Grant and a Safe Clean Water Regional grant to fund the Beach Cities Green Street Project. These grants will help fund a variety of green street projects in Torrance, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach and Hermosa Beach. This includes the Hermosa Avenue Green Street Project which will improve Hermosa Avenue between Herondo Street and 4^th Street to include a number of green street elements that will help reduce pollution from storm water runoff. The grant funding will help develop designs and concepts but construction will come later in a second phase. This project with the City of Torrance as lead was approved by City Council in March 2020. More information can be found here.

Community Events

As part of our continued commitment to keep our constituents informed, the City of Hermosa Beach, in coordination with CWE and Murakawa Communications, hosted several pop-up table events at the Kay Etow Parkette (161 Herondo Ave, Hermosa Beach, 90254) to provide more information, gather feedback from local stakeholders, and answer any questions.

 The events were held on the following dates:

• Thursday, November 11, 2021 – 4:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M.
• Thursday, November 18, 2021 – 4:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M.
• Monday, November 29, 2021 – 3:30 P.M. to 5:30 P.M.

 If you have any questions, please email Info@BeachCitiesGreenStreets.com or email the City’s Environmental Programs Manager, Doug Krauss, at DKrauss@HermosaBeach.gov