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Join us for the Southeast Stormwater Association's Fifth Annual Conference for innovative solutions to many of the complex challenges in stormwater management!  SESWA is the only organization dedicated to the entire southeast region with a focus on providing professionals with up-to-date information on stormwater management, finance and regulations. This year's conference will do just that!

 

This year's Conference features:
 
An Opening Session providing an update on new initiatives within Region IV from Jim Giattina, Director, Office of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IV
 
State Champions sharing their success stories in the Southeast: 

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Services (CMSWS) constructs and monitors various stormwater BMPs to benchmark their effectiveness and costs. As part of that ongoing testing program, a porous pavement parking lot was constructed in a new townhome community in 2005, and subsequently monitored. Although monitoring and evaluation will continue well into the future, two years of monitoring data have shown that this technology holds promise for clay soils in the southeast. Hurdles to widespread use and success may include ensuring a proper installation, and porous concrete's relative high cost when compared to other BMP options such as bio-retention areas. 
 
 
Do you have a successful project that you would like to share - send it to seswa@ksanet.net with the subject line: Project's Corner!

ADEM Reissues Draft Phase II Permit
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) is proposing to reissue the General NPDES Permit regulating storm water discharges from regulated small municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s) to waters of the State of Alabama. The Department opened a 30-day public comment period earlier this year for a previous draft of the proposed permit. The proposed general permit has been revised to address public comments received during the previous public comment period.

TMDL for Dissolved Oxygen

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has posted the Draft Revised Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for Dissolved Oxygen in the Savannah Harbor, Savannah River Basin, Chatham and Effingham Counties, Georgia and Jasper County South Carolina for public notice and comment.
 
This draft TMDL was a collaborative effort between the EPA, the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (GAEPD), the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC), the Savannah Harbor regulated dischargers and the middle Savannah River regulated dischargers. This draft TMDL provides the regulated dischargers with reasonable, practical and innovative guidelines to achieve the standard while protecting the environment in the Savannah Harbor.

The Kentucky Division of Water (KDOW) is reissuing the general permit that authorizes the discharge of pollutants in storm water discharges associated with Phase II Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4). This permit covers the entire commonwealth of Kentucky.  There are additional requirements in accordance with effluent limitations, monitoring, and other conditions set forth in this permit cycle vs. the first permit cycle issued back in 2003. View a comparison between what was required then and what is required now effective April 1, 2010.   

NCDENR Stormwater Permitting Unit has developed new guidance on the coverage of mines under Phase II Post-Construction Requirements.  The biggest change is that in areas where runoff from mining activities does not drain back into the pit or otherwise co-mingle with wastewater for treatment, it will be subject to post-construction requirements.  "Built upon area at mines includes large stockpiles or other zones where impervious area is effectively created for or by the mining operation." Projects including mines which are located in Phase II Post-Construction areas and are not permitted by local entities shall be submitted to NCDWQ  Stormwater Permitting Unit.

Stormwater Volume Controls Included in BMP Manual
Beaufort County Council approved, May 10, 2010, the updates to the County's BMP Manual that incorporate credits for practices to bring new development and redevelopment into compliance with the antidegradation goal of 10 percent impervious surface.  Water quality controls are required for development that has over 10 percent impervious surface.  These updates specify credits for six practices to bring stormwater volume to the equivalent of 10 percent impervious surface.  These credits are shown in new Appendix C in the manual.    

 

SC DHEC Posts Shellfish Fecal Coliform TMDL for Public Comment
Public comments will be accepted on the Shellfish Fecal Coliform TMDL until June 9, 2010.  This is a simplified TMDL that does not include flow but rather percentage reduction goals.  This is of some concern since loads are determined both by flow and concentration.

 

City of Dunwoody (GA), Chuck Davis

Kemp Associates, LLC, Jimmy Kemp

Town of Montreat (NC), David Currie

Town of Stallings (NC), Lynne Hair