Stormwater asset-condition register and capacity recovery

Some of the worst flooding isn't about new storms — it's about old pipes nobody cleaned, drains nobody cleared, and pumps nobody tested until the water was already rising. When the city doesn't know the condition of its own stormwater assets, maintenance is guesswork and neighborhoods pay for it. A register turns guesswork into a schedule.

Build a stormwater asset-condition register — every drain, pipe, pump station, and detention asset inventoried with its condition graded — and use it to drive capacity recovery: cleaning, repairing, and restoring the system the city already owns before building new. Publish stage labels and the register's summary so residents can see the state of the infrastructure beneath their street.

Stormwater Engineering. Executive Action: Departmental engineering authority: Stormwater Engineering builds and maintains the register; Council appropriations fund the capacity recovery it identifies.

Asset-condition register completed and summarized publicly; Capacity recovery projects completed on degraded assets; Preventive maintenance schedule published and tracked; Flooding incidents attributable to asset failure, reported annually

Year One: Scoped pilot with published stage labels, then evaluate before any scale decision.