Southern Indiana Storm Water Advisory Committee Hosts Meeting - Feb 8th
The Southern Indiana Storm Water Advisory Committee (SISWAC) will be presenting a meeting with local community leaders and Reggie Korthals, MS4 Program Coordinator from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM). The focus on this meeting will be to familiarize newly elected officials and board members with Rule 13: Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) rules and regulations and to show the individuals who may already be familiar with this program in which direction it is headed.
The program should last approximately one hour with a question and answer session immediately following it. Following this meeting the SISWAC will hold its scheduled quarterly meeting. Guests are encouraged to attend as these meetings are open to the public. Please RSVP the total number of expected attendees. Refreshments will be available. To learn more about this event please click on the link below.
View the Event Flyer and RSVP Information for this event (pdf)
Floyd County Stormwater Awareness Week!
The week of June 18 thru June 24 2011 has be proclaimed Stormwater Awareness Week by the Floyd County Commissioners. This proclamation is to help educate the public on storm water and give opportunities to the public to help clean up our creeks and streams by hosting activities that they can participate in. Click here to see a schedule of events. If you would like to help and or have questions, you can contact Chris Moore at (812)949-5446.
Stormwater Department MS4 Program Overview Powerpoint Presentation (pptx)
* Please note if you do not have Powerpoint 2007 installed please click here to download the free Powerpoint viewer application
Floyd County Stormwater Department would like to announce that the Quality Management Permit Application is Now Online.
If you or your company is participating in land disturbing activities that involve more than one (1) acre then you need to apply for an Quality Management Permit. Applications that were located in the Plan Commission are now found on this site under County Offices / Stormwater. They can also be picked up in person in the Auditor’s Office Room 119 in the City-County Building. If you are unsure if you need to apply, please call the Floyd County Soil and Water Office (812) 945-9936 and ask for Mr. Kevin Feder.
Storm Water Quality Management
Application Permit form (pdf)
Department Origins:
Floyd County is required, by the 1987 Clean Water Act, to obtain a permit through IDEM (Indiana Department of Environmental Management) to enter into a MS4 (Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System) program that follows EPA’s Phase II of the NPDES standards for clean water. The permit requires Floyd County to develop a stormwater management plan and to implement best management practices (stormwater pollution prevention measures). This unfunded mandate has 6 (six) minimum control measures that must be incorporated into our management plan. Ordinances were written to include these standards and created a Stormwater Board that became the executors of these regulations. Here is a list of Floyd County Ordinances and the Stormwater Management Plan.
Floyd County Applicable Ordinances:
Erosion Control Ordinance (pdf)
Illicit Discharge Ordinance (pdf)
Construction Site Runoff (pdf)
Floyd County Stormwater Management Plan:
Stormwater Management Plan (pdf)
Department Funding:
Starting on 2007 the County could no longer take funds from the General and Edit funds to supplement these measures, so a user fee was needed. It was introduced as: residential parcel to receive a flat rate of 3.25 per month and all non-residential parcels would be based on impervious surface per parcel. The national average of 2,500 sq ft of impervious to equal 1 ERU (Equivalent Residential Unit) was used to calculate the fee. After careful consideration the Stormwater Board felt that it needed more public input and formed a Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC). They wanted to get recommendations from this group before they implemented any impervious fee structure so they went to a temporary flat rate for every parcel. After two years of a flat rate it was time to move the fee to a fair and equitable means of charging a fee. With input from the CAC, the Board, changed the impervious surface average to 3,700 sq ft and put in a low impact parcel credit and abated the total fee for 3 years. Plus, they created a credits policy that gives customers the opportunity to receive credit for being good stewards of the program. More information about these changes can be found on the links below.
Letter to Utility Customers (pdf)
Amendments to Ordinance (pdf)
Stormwater Credits policy (pdf)
Stormwater Credit overview (pdf)
Stormwater Fees and Credits (pdf)
Credit Application (pdf)
Public Outreach and Projects:
One of the six control measure is public outreach. From time to time the Stormwater Department with the help for Floyd County Soil and Water will have special announcements and public education opportunities that speak of how you, the customer, can help. This will also be the place for news on stormwater projects. Ongoing and new projects will be updated on this site when any information warrants. Visit this site often to check upcoming events and news.
Barrington Court Subdivsion Drainage Improvement Project
Letter to Residents (pdf)
Project Details (pdf)
Plan Profiles #1, Plan Profile #2, Plan Profile #3, Sections
Bids Documents (pdf)
Barrington Court Addresses (xls)
Kid's Corner:
Stormwater doesn’t just effect grownups, but kids are also impacted by poor water quality. From not being able to swim in a local watering hole or not being allowed to go fishing because poor conditions. Kids are helpful in reminding us how important clean storm water is to kids of all ages. Education doesn’t always have to be boring, so here are a couple of website that the kids might enjoy.
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories/SpaceScience/Green-tips-resources
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Games/ActionGames/Recycle-roundup
http://www2.seattle.gov/util/waterbusters/
http://www.epa.gov/beaches/kids/game-matching.html
Additional Information:
For additional information about the Floyd County Stormwater Department. Please visit the following websites!
http://www.floydswcd.org/
http://www.siswac.org/
http://www.in.gov/idem/6451.htm
http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/home.cfm?program_id=6
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/New-Albany-IN/Floyd-County-Stormwater/141165115900287?ref=sgm&__a=5&ajaxpipe=1
