A

Seminar on
“Stormwater Management”

Presented by Guided by
Introduction
Stormwater runoff is the water associated
with a rain or snow storm that can be measured in a
downstream river, stream, ditch,gutter, or pipe
shortly after the precipitation has reached the
ground. To achieve best practice in the
environmental management of stormwater, it is
important that catchment management activities are
guided by strategies or plans.This provides
guidelines for the development of stormwater
management plans. While it is intended mainly for
application at local government levels.
Stormwater Control Measures
SCMs reduce or mitigate the generation
of stormwater runoff and associated pollutants.
The responsibility for implementing SCMs
primarily resides with developers and local
stormwater agencies, but planning agencies,
landowners, existing industry, regulatory
agencies, and municipal separate storm sewer
system (MS4) permittees can also be responsible
for implementing SCMs.
1. Product Substitution
2. Watershed and Land-Use Planning
3. Conservation of Natural Areas
4. Impervious Cover Minimization
5. Earthwork Minimization
6. Erosion and Sediment Control
7. Reforestation and Soil Conservation
8. Pollution Prevention SCMs for Stormwater
Hotspots
9. Runoff Volume Reduction— Rainwater
harvesting
10. Runoff Volume Reduction— Vegetated
11. Runoff Volume Reduction— Subsurface
12. Peak Reduction and Runoff Treatment
13. Runoff Treatment
14. Aquatic Buffers and Managed Floodplains
15. Stream Rehabilitation
16. Municipal Housekeeping
17. Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination
Stormwater
18. Residential Stewardship
 This location exhibits
several elements of
impervious cover
reduction. In particular,
vegetated swales were
installed and curbs and
gutters removed. There
are sidewalks on only one
side of the street, and
they are separated from
the road by the swales.
The residences’ rooftops
have been disconnected
from the storm-drain
systems and are
redirected into the swales.
Fig. 110th Street, Seattle, part of the
Natural Drainage Systems Project.
 City Hall in the center of
Chicago’s downtown was
retrofitted with a green
roof to reduce the heat
island effect, remove
airborne pollutants, and
attenuate stormwater
flows as a demonstration
of innovative stormwater
management in an ultra-
urban setting.
Fig. City Hall in the center of Chicago’s
downtown was retrofitted with a green
roof

Fig. A small office building
conversion at the edge of
downtown
A small office building
conversion at the edge of
downtown Denver included the
replacement of a portion of the
site’s parking with modular
block porous pavement
underlain by an 18inch layer of
crushed rock. Rainfall on the
porous pavement and roof
runoff for most storm events
are contained in the reservoir
created by the crushed rock.
The pavement infiltrates runoff
from most storm events for
one-third of the impervious
area on the site.
 Rainwater harvesting systems
refer to use of captured runoff
from roof tops in rain barrels,
tanks, or cisterns. This SCM
treats runoff as a resource and
is one of the few SCMs that
can provide a tangible
economic benefit through the
reduction of treated water
usage. Rainwater harvesting
systems have substantial
potential as retrofits via the use
of rain barrels or cisterns that
can replace lawn or garden
sprinkling systems.
Fig. Rainwater Harvesting
 Watershed Permitting Framework for
Managinging Stormwater
The important benefits of watershed permitting:
 More environmentally effective results
 Ability to emphasize measuring the effectiveness of
targeted actions on improvements in water quality
 Greater opportunities for trading and other market-based
approaches
 Reduced cost of improving the quality of the nation’s
waters
 More effective implementation of watershed plans,
including total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) and
 Other ancillary benefits beyond those that have been
achieved under the Clean Water Act (e.g., integrating CWA
and Safe Drinking Water Act [SDWA] programs).
Impact Reduction
This approach to impact reduction, where the direct focus is
on reducing the loss of aquatic ecosystem.
Practices for Impact Reduction;
The SCM qualify as ARCD (Aquatic Resources
Conservation Design) include,
 Product Substitution
 Watershed and Land-Use Planning
 Conservation of Natural Areas
 Impervious Cover Minimization
 Earthwork Minimization
 Reforestation and Soil Conservation
 Runoff Volume Reduction—Rainwater Harvesting,
Vegetated, and Subsurface
 Aquatic Buffers and Managed Floodplains and
 Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination
 Municipal Permit tee Roles in
Implementing Strategies
 Activity location prioritization—locations prioritized for
action based on pollutant loading potential
 Implementation strategy and activity prioritization—
tiered approach identifying activities directed at
meeting watershed goals over a five-year period
 Potential watershed activities—general list of activities
required and potentially required to meet goals as
guidance for planning and budgeting
 Watershed activity maps—specified locations for
activities and
 Framework for assessment monitoring—a plan for
development of the monitoring and reporting program.
 CONCLUSION
 EPA should support the compilation of quality industrial
storm water effluent data and SCM effluent quality data
in a national database
 EPA should develop numerical expressions to represent
the MS4 standard of Maximum Extent Practicable
 Communities should use an urban stream classification
system, such as a regionally adapted version of the
Impervious Cover Model, to establish realistic water
quality
 Better monitoring of MS4s to determine outcome is
needed