This news release about municipal storm water management guidance comes from the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. At 500 pages, this is going to take some time to study.
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
has a new tool to help communities reduce the impacts of polluted storm water on
the state’s streams and rivers.
Produced for the WVDEP by the Center for Watershed
Protection, the 500-page West Virginia Stormwater Management and Design
Guidance Manual is the first of its kind in the state. Both state and federal
funds were used for the $150,000 project, which took two and a half years to
complete and is based on up-to-date research in the science of stormwater
management.
The manual outlines innovative ways to use plants and
soils to reduce runoff volumes and pollutants at development and redevelopment
sites. The guide can be used as a design resource by any West Virginia
community interested in more effectively dealing with the harmful effects of
polluted stormwater to the state’s waterways.
The manual’s chief function, however, is to provide
design instruction and guidance on implementing stormwater practices in
accordance with West Virginia’s small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System
(MS4) General Permit. Forty-seven West Virginia communities are regulated under
the MS4 permit.
“This is a resource tool for state stormwater officials,
engineers and designers who are required to implement the provisions of the MS4
permit,” said the WVDEP’s Sherry Wilkins, project manager for the Guidance
Manual. “By meeting these performance standards outlined in the permit, the MS4
communities will effectively improve the water quality of our streams and
rivers and that benefits everybody.”
The WVDEP plans to distribute the manual to the state’s
MS4 communities first. It will be available on the agency’s Web site by the end
of December. Go to:
ult.aspx.
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