Santa Clara Valley Water District

The Water Resources Protection Manual (4.5 MB) used for administering District's Water Resources Protection Ordinance has been broken down into the following sections:

Cover and District Resolution 2006-75

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Requirements and Recommendations

Chapter 2 Additional Standards

Chapter 3  Design Guides

 Table of Content and Introduction

1. Protection of existing riparian vegetation
2. Use of local native species
3. Use of ornamental or non-native landscaping
4. Riparian vegetation or mitigation projects
5. Temporary erosion control operations
6. Placement of fill and planting of trees by levees
7. Slope stability area
8. Freeboard requirements
9. Grading adjacent to creeks and SCVWD right of way
10. Plant species for vegetated buffers and swales
11. Specifications for placement of fill on SCVWD levees
12. Outfall standards
13. Flap gate structure
14. Water pipeline crossing
15. Utility crossing under creeks
16. Guidance for trail design
17. Groundwater resource assessment criteria
18. Detention basin design
19. Bank Protection/Erosion Repair Design Guide
• Introduction, Purpose and Organization of the Design Guide
• How stream function
• Causes of stream bank erosion
• Embarking on a bank protection/erosion repair project
• Introduction to watershed-friendly design
• Detailed descriptions of erosion repair techniques
• Helpful hints on obtaining permits stream-bank repair
• Reference materials