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The Foundation
Developing and Implementing Your Storm Water
Management Program
Your SWMP is the foundation of your storm water program
Your SWMP is your vision for protecting water quality over
the next five years and beyond
This important document must be well thought-outthought-out, taking into consideration
aspects of your communityaspects of your community in order to most efficientlyefficiently reduce the discharge of reduce the discharge of
pollutantspollutants in urban runoff
Where to Begin? Where to Begin?
6 program areas to focus on -
Minimum Control Measures
What to do?What to do?
Do thingsthings to stop this pollution. These thingsthings are known as Best Management
Practices (BMPs)
BMPs
Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and
other management practices to prevent or reduce the pollution of waters of the
United States. BMPs also include treatment requirements, operating
procedures, and practices to control site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw material
storage.
BMPs (cont.)
• Its not necessarily what BMPs you choose, but why you chose them.
Resources to Protect
• Local stream• Wetlands• Fishing Spot• Drinking water supply• Groundwater• The community
– health, flooding
Protect it from what?
• 303(d) listed for a specific pollutant• Pollutants of concern• Other known problems
– litter, eutrophication, sediment (erosion)
• “Urban Slobber”– from pet waste to brake lining to
pesticides to everything we spill, spit, and drop on the ground
Existing Issues
• Dumping areas• Localized flooding• Unsafe recreation areas• Unappealing recreation areas• Little open space
Community Characteristics
• Industrial• Suburban• High Growth• Languages• Cultures
What BMPs can you do to target these characteristics?
BMPs Required by the Permit
• Basic elements of a storm water program
BMPs (cont.)
• Suites of BMPs
Many communities are similar, look at what they are
doing
Coordinate
• Departments– Public Works– Water Resources– Planning– Parks– etc.
• Other Entities– City next door– County/City– County Health
Dept.– School
Look at what you are already doing
• Restaurant inspections• Household hazardous waste day• Handling complaints• Pollution Prevention Fair
BMP Resources• EPA’s BMP Toolbox
– http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/stormwater/menuofbmps/menu.cfm
• CASQA’s BMP Handbooks– www.cabmphandbooks.com/– (click on the pictures)
• ASCE’s BMP Database– http://www.bmpdatabase.org/
• Others– www.swrcb.ca.gov/stormwtr/bmp_database.html
Be Creative
ROAD BLOCKS?ROAD BLOCKS?
Funding
Vectors
Street Widths for emergency vehicles
“That’s n
ot th
e w
ay w
e
do it”
Opposition by the
public to being
regulated
Resourc
es
Safety
Roadblocks
• Try to anticipate them• Address them in your SWMP• Resolving them may be a task to
be completed
Along with BMPs, measurable goals,measurable goals, time time
schedules, schedules, and and responsible responsible personspersons define your program
Evaluate and Assess Your SWMP
Is what you are doing working?
• Evaluation/Assessment Parameters• Use the information that you are
gathering to help tailor your program• Ex. If you continually have to clean
out a particular storm drains because of sediment, you should focus on construction activity in that drainage area
Develop
Implement
Assess
Be open to new information
Remember the Goal:Water Quality