City of Beaumont Stream Gage Installation Project

The City of Beaumont seeks to increase the beneficial use of its treated wastewater that is currently being discharged to Cooper’s Creek. To support this effort, the City prepared the Cooper’s Creek and San Timoteo Creek (CCSTC) Habitat Characterization and Sustainability Report. The purpose of the report was to inform strategies for reducing recycled water discharges and to prepare an Adaptive Management and Mitigation Plan (AMMP) for riparian habitat along Cooper’s Creek and San Timoteo Creek that could be impacted by reduced flows. The City is presently pursuing analysis and implementation of reducing its discharge of treated wastewater (i.e. recycled water) from the Beaumont wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) to Cooper’s Creek, and divert that water for other beneficial uses discussed below. The CCSTC Habitat Characterization and Sustainability Report (Phase 1 Report) identified the need for a baseline monitoring program for information gathering purposes, and the need for surface water monitoring (stage, flow, temperature, and specific conductance [SC]) was identified. The high-frequency flow, temperature, and SC data will provide a more comprehensive understanding of the long-term and short-term trends in surface water flow downstream of the WWTP and help understand surface water conditions in response to storms and discharges from the Beaumont WWTP. The high-frequency data will also help discern groundwater and surface water interactions downstream of the WWTP. The project proposes a total of 4 new stream gages located at the locations described under project locations, above.