City of Pocatello

Every year city departments are required to present a performance report to the Mayor, City Council and citizen stakeholders (Service Level Report). Under the supervision of the Chief Financial Officer, the departments discuss their mission, financial inputs, workload outputs, measures of efficiency & effectiveness (including comparisons to other cities & industry norms), results and their issues and concerns for the future.

	Service level video report
	Service level .pdf report

STORM WATER MANAGEMENT

Pocatello Storm Water Permit

This permit authorizes that the City of Pocatello is in compliance with the provisions of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. §1251 et seq., as amended by the Water Quality Act of 1987, P.L. 100-4.

General Storm Water Guidelines

The purpose of these requirements is to define minimum standards and procedures for the design, permitting, construction and maintenance of drainage facilities. They also provide standard procedures for estimating flow and establishing allowable runoff criteria for developed property. These standards are intended to assist, but not to substitute for, design by a registered Professional Engineer licensed in the State of Idaho.

Storm Water Hotline 234-6519

If you are aware of a problem with a storm drain or catchment basin, please call. If you see anyone dumping anything into the drains, please call. Only rain and snowmelt should go into these drains, which connect to the Portneuf River.

Drainage Policy

The City of Pocatello has enacted a policy specifying that any stormwater discharge to a shallow injection well will be treated prior to entering. Treatment, for this policy, means 85% removal of total petroleum hydrocarbons, sediment, and antifreeze. Any hazardous waste must be removed 100%.

Pocatello IDF Curves for Pocatello

Intensity/Duration/Frequency (IDF) curves represent the greatest intensity of downfall expected during a given time period.

Successful Re-vegetation Policy

Revegetation is defined as the process by which native vegetation, removed during construction activities, is replaced by appropriate native species of grasses and other pants. Species seeded shall include adaptable perennial species that will grow on the site and provide basic soil and watershed protection. Revegetation is successful when revegetation has achieved 70 percent of the predevelopment vegetative ground cover. If the predevelopment vegetative ground cover is unknown, the ground cover of an adjacent undisturbed area that is representative of the predeveloped ground cover will be used as a standard. Also, the vegetation must have survived three growing seasons following the last seeding, fertilization or irrigation, or the City must provide a determination that the revegetation work has been satisfactorily completed within practical limits where reseeding has occurred and the vegetation has survived one growing season.

Portneuf River Total Maximum Daily Load

The federal Clean Water Act requires that states and tribes restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters. States and tribes must adopt water quality standards necessary to protect fish, shellfish, and wildlife while providing for recreation in and on the waters whenever possible. Click to find out more about the Portneuf River and Tributaries Watershed Advisory Group .