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Watershed Planning
The Safe, Clean Water Program is taking a big step forward with the Watershed Planning effort, which aims to enhance the delivery of benefits provided by the Program.
Watershed Planning builds on ongoing and past work, integrates valuable stakeholder and community input, and reflects best available information and practices that support investments in more impactful water quality, water supply, and community enhancing stormwater capture projects, programs, and studies. For Watershed Planning questions, please email us at watershedplanning@pw.lacounty.gov.
Watershed Planning includes the development of nine Initial Watershed Plans. These plans will outline clear regionwide and watershed area-specific targets and needs, efforts to date, and highlight strategies and opportunities to guide the SCW Program’s future investments. These plans will be adaptive and will continue to be updated as new learnings arise.
Initial Watershed Plans and their companion online Planning Tool will be launched in early 2026.
As part of Watershed Planning, the Community Strengths and Needs Assessment (CSNA) Survey was created to give residents the opportunity to share what matters most in their neighborhoods, outlining their communities’ strengths, key needs, and opportunities. Results are displayed in the interactive CSNA Dashboard, an online GIS-based tool that shows survey findings and tracks changes over time.
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