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Heather Krish
Stormwater Compliance Manager at City of San Diego, Stormwater
Heather Krish is the Stormwater Compliance Manager at the City of San Diego.3 She is a biologist with extensive field experience in coastal environments, including kelp forests and rocky reefs.2
Krish is involved in San Diego's dry-weather monitoring program, which aims to establish baseline flow conditions, measure the effectiveness of strategies for reducing or eliminating dry-weather flows, and estimate pollutant loads.1 She works with a team of biologists and a stormwater environmental specialist to monitor over 500 major Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) outfalls annually.1 They also perform chemical analysis and investigations of high-priority outfalls, implement sampling programs to assess flows accurately, and investigate hundreds of illicit non-stormwater discharges each year.1
Krish has been involved in implementing the MS4 Flow System, which uses web-enabled flow data and ultrasonic sensors to track dry-weather flows.1 This system helps the city efficiently identify, reduce, and eliminate dry-weather flows.1 According to Krish, continuous data is essential for coordinating investigations of illicit discharges.1 The MS4 Flow System has allowed the City of San Diego to identify and eliminate several illicit discharges and reduce the average baseline flow by 40%.1
