City of Lake Oswego Improves Urban Water Resource Management with Real-Time Data Analysis
City of Lake Oswego Improves Urban Water Resource Management with Real-Time Data Analysis
3 PagesCASE STUDY AQUARIUS Stormwater, TMDL Monitoring & Regulatory Compliance About the City of Lake Oswego Only eight miles outside the City of Portland in Oregon, the City of Lake Oswego is part of the Portland Metropolitan Region and must maintain compliance with a federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permit, as well as show progress toward meeting Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Waste Load Allocations. While it has a smaller population of 37,000 citizens, it is subject to the same stormwater regulations and water monitoring requirements as larger communities like the City of Portland. The permit requires the City to reduce stormwater runo and pollution, to manage programs to protect water quality in river
