Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems MS4 The Berks County Approach

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Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems
(MS4)The Berks County Approach

• Pennsylvania Planning Association Annual
  Conference
• September 14, 2003
• PRESENTERS
• Dale R. Kratzer, P.E., D.E.E.
• Spotts, Stevens and McCoy, Inc.
• dale.kratzer_at_ssmgroup.com
• Shannon L. Rossman
• Berks County Planning Commission
• SRossman_at_countyofberks.com

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MS4 Recap

• Six Minimum Control Measures
• Public Education and Outreach
• Public Participation and Involvement
• Ililicit Discharge Detection and Elimination
• Construction Site Runoff Control
• Post-Construction Stormwater Management
• Pollution Prevention and Good Housekeeping at
  Municipal Facilities

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Intergovernmental Cooperation Policy

• Working together for a better Berks County

Berks County Planning Commission
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Regional Planning Approach
Regional Planning Agency County
Act 167 Stormwater Management Plans by Watershed
MS4 NPDES Phase II
Act 537 Sewage Facilities Planning
Water Supply Planning Comprehensive Water
Resource Plan
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Why?

• Stormwater knows no municipal borders
• Water supplies know no municipal borders
• Sewage needs know no municipal borders

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Joint Planning Efforts
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Urbanized Areas
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How We Got Started

• The environment
• Water and sewer regionalization study
• Joint comp plans
• Joint purchasing council
• Charge to look for regionalization or
  cooperation, especially where the County could
  provide leadership
• In MS4 we saw
• Redundancy if each municipality alone
• Opportunity to introduce unified stormwater
  management
• Great opportunity for intergovernmental
  cooperation

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How We Got Started

• Exploratory meetings
• Berks County
• DEP discovered Act 167 relationship
• Center for Local Government Leadership
• Create steering committee

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How Did We Get Here? Early Work

• Involve municipal engineers
• Create steering committee
• Purpose
• Membership
• Initial steering committee discussions
• Education Subcommittee
• Engineers subcommittee
• Meeting and cooperation
• Communication vehicle to the municipalities
• Analyses of activities and costs

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Analyses of Activities and Costs

• Individual Municipality
• Prepare and implement the MS4 Program
• 39,800

Cooperative Effort Prepare and implement the MS4
Program 16,500
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Analyses of Activities and Costs
Prepare and implement the MS4 Program over a 5
year period

• Individual Cooperative
• Customize ordinances 4,500 2,500
• Prepare map 4,800 1,200
• Prepare in-house education program 1,000 300
• Prepare SOP Manual 2,200 700
• Prepare public education program 1,000 1,000
• Year 1 2 Program - implementation 3,800 0
• Year 3-5 Program Implementation 5,100 0
• Prepare the MS4 NOI 2,800 1,500
• Stormwater notification appliqués 2,100 1,800
• Prepare yearly report without sampling
  data 2,500 1,500
• Prepare yearly report with sampling
  data 15,000 0
• 39, 800 16,500

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Asked for Municipal Participation

• . . . and the response was . . .

• 45 of 47 municipalities
• County itself
• County Welfare Tract
• County airport authority

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MS4 Permit Application Process

• MS4 program was evolving many questions
• Someone got information, they passed it on to all
• County Planning Commission staff coordinated
  joint submission by all participants
• All permit applications of the participants
  delivered as one package
• DEP cooperation

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Anticipated Benefits

• Coordinated composite map(s)
• Reduced costs
• Coordinated, overall consistent program
• Similar Enforcement Ordinances
• Unified message
• Education
• No Conflicting Statements
• Reimbursement Aspects
• Relationship with Other Programs
• Coordinate with Act 167
• Erosion and Sedimentation Controls

• In short, much more bang for the buck

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Control Measure No. 4

• Construction Site Runoff Contract
• Berks County Conservation District (BCCD)
• Developed a memorandum of understanding that
  effectively transferred responsibility for this
  from the municipality to the BCCD

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Berks County Act 167 Schedule

• Original Schedule
• Sacony Creek 1997
• Tulpehocken Creek 2001
• Maiden Creek 2004
• Manatawny Creek 2006
• Schuylkill River 2009

• Revised Schedule
• due to MS4
• Sacony 1997
• Tulpehocken 2001
• Maiden Creek 2004
• Schuylkill River 2004
• Manatawny Creek 2006

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Where Do We Go From Here

• MS4 Program
• Stickers/Stencils
• Public Education
• Act 167