The Foundation

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The Foundation

• Developing and Implementing Your Storm Water
  Management Program

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Your SWMP is the foundation of your storm water
program
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Your SWMP is your vision for protecting water
quality over the next five years and beyond
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This important document must be well thought-out,
taking into consideration aspects of your
community in order to most efficiently reduce the
discharge of pollutants in urban runoff
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Where to Begin?
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6 program areas to focus on - Minimum Control
Measures
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What to do?
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Do things to stop this pollution. These things
are known as Best Management Practices (BMPs)
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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.

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BMPs (cont.)

• Its not necessarily what BMPs you choose, but why
  you chose them.

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Resources to Protect

• Local stream
• Wetlands
• Fishing Spot
• Drinking water supply
• Groundwater
• The community
• health, flooding

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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

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Existing Issues

• Dumping areas
• Localized flooding
• Unsafe recreation areas
• Unappealing recreation areas
• Little open space

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Community Characteristics

• Industrial
• Suburban
• High Growth
• Languages
• Cultures

What BMPs can you do to target these
characteristics?
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BMPs Required by the Permit

• Basic elements of a storm water program

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BMPs (cont.)

• Suites of BMPs

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Many communities are similar, look at what they
are doing
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Coordinate

• Departments
• Public Works
• Water Resources
• Planning
• Parks
• etc.

• Other Entities
• City next door
• County/City
• County Health Dept.
• School

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Look at what you are already doing

• Restaurant inspections
• Household hazardous waste day
• Handling complaints
• Pollution Prevention Fair

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BMP Resources

• EPAs BMP Toolbox
• http//cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/stormwater/menuofbmps/m
  enu.cfm
• CASQAs BMP Handbooks
• www.cabmphandbooks.com/
• (click on the pictures)
• ASCEs BMP Database
• http//www.bmpdatabase.org/
• Others
• www.swrcb.ca.gov/stormwtr/bmp_database.html

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Be Creative
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ROAD BLOCKS?
Funding
Street Widths for emergency vehicles
Thats not the way we do it
Opposition by the public to being regulated
Vectors
Resources
Safety
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Roadblocks

• Try to anticipate them
• Address them in your SWMP
• Resolving them may be a task to be completed

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Along with BMPs, measurable goals, time
schedules, and responsible persons define your
program
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Evaluate and Assess Your SWMP
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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

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Develop
Assess
Implement
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• Be open to new information
• Remember the Goal
• Water Quality

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