The sausalito marin city school district's nevada campus creek daylighting and green infrastructure project (the project) restores up to 600 feet of channel crossing the school campus, and bundles…

The Sausalito Marin City School District received a $3,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Geographic Programs - San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund (CFDA 66.126). The funding will support the design, permitting, and construction of a 600-foot daylighted, vegetated perennial creek channel, as well as the installation of green infrastructure stormwater management features on the Martin Luther King Jr. Academy's Nevada Campus. The project also includes development of outdoor classrooms and water quality/habitat monitoring. As a sub-recipient, the school district plans to partner with Friends of Willow Creek to conduct a minimum three-year program of professional monitoring and community-based citizen monitoring of water quality and habitat. The overarching goals of this project are to implement the San Francisco Estuary Partnership's Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan, restore riparian and upland habitat, reduce pollutant loads, and increase community and student awareness of watershed values.

The sausalito marin city school district's nevada campus creek daylighting and green infrastructure project (the project) restores up to 600 feet of channel crossing the school campus, and bundles environmental, educational and institutional benefits to improve water quality, advance science, and strengthen partnerships and engagement. The project will design, permit and construct up to 600 feet of daylighted, vegetated perennial creek channel, as well as construct green infrastructure storm water management on the martin luther king JR. Academy's nevada campus of the sausalito marin city school district, including bioretention of parking lot runoff, rain gardens to infiltrate impervious surface runoff and rain barrels to collect roof runoff for reuse as irrigation water. The $3,000,000 grant will support the design, permitting, and construction of creek daylighting, green infrastructure, and outdoor classrooms. The funds will also support water quality and habitat monitoring. This assistance agreement provides full federal funding in the amount of $3,000,000. Activities:to implement the SAN francisco estuary partnership comprehensive conservation and management plan (CCMP), the sausalito marin city school district's nevada campus creek daylighting and green infrastructure project will accomplish the following activities: design, permitting, and construction of creek daylighting, green infrastructure, and outdoor classrooms. Funds will also be used to monitor water quality and habitat indicators to demonstrate project benefits in sausalito.subrecipient:the recipient plans to partner with friends of willow creek to support a minimum three-year program of professional monitoring of water quality and habitat based on an approved qapp, as well as support of periodic citizen monitoring by K-8 students, teachers, parents and volunteers with equipment and resources for sampling, analysis and restoration efforts. The partnership also plans to encourage community participation, produce periodic reports (e.g., quarterly, annual), develop and implement the qapp, and organize environmental monitoring through coordination with marin county stormwater program and marin county resource conservation district. Outcomes:anticipated deliverables include: completing the project design for the restored stream corridor and associated water quality improvements, implementation of the willow creek restoration, development of a quality assurance project plan, and community outreach. Expected longer-term outcomes include: restoration of riparian and adjacent upland habitat, reduction of pollutant loads including sediment and nutrients through green storm water management infrastructure, and increased community and student awareness of willow creek and watershed values, water quality, climate change, drought, and riparian habitat values through increased educational programs and community stewardship. The intended beneficiaries of this project are the communities of sausalito and marin city and the living resources of the SAN francisco BAY and its watersheds.