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general health of wetlands, primary impacts and sources of these impacts. 6b Develop and adopt wetland protection measures. No 6c Implement advanced wetland restoration/protection No measures. Source: Hamilton, 2005. Goal 7: Provide Pollution Prevention/Good Housekeeping Practices for Municipal Operations Similar to Goal 3, Goal 7 objectives focus on fulfilling SWPPI requirements from Part I.B.2 of the Watershed-Based NPDES Permit. The permit requires specific activities to be conducted under this section including the following: 1) Maintenance and inspection plans for structural controls; 2) Controls to reduce/eliminate pollutants from roadways, parking lots, and maintenance garages; 3) Procedures for proper disposal of operation and maintenance waste; 4) Ways to ensure the flood management projects assess the impacts of water quality; and 5) Controls to reduce the discharge of pesticides and fertilizers in the permittee’s regulated area. The permit also calls for a training and inspection program for staff and contractors. As part of many of these objectives, training will be conducted as outlined in the action plan table in Section 8. Objectives 7a Ensure that ordinances and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) comply with Phase II permit requirements. 7b Review municipal pesticide and fertilizer application procedures for municipally-owned property. Ensure that directions are followed, low-phosphorus fertilizers are used, and soil testing is conducted to determine fertilizer need. 7c Provide maintenance activities and inspection procedures for permanent structural storm water best management practices (retention basins, swales, created wetlands, rain gardens, etc.). 7d Assess the impacts on water quality from flood management projects. 7e Reduce discharge of pollutants from streets, roads, highways, parking lots, and maintenance garages. 7f Dispose of operation and maintenance waste from the separate storm water drainage system appropriately. This includes street sweeping, catch basin cleaning, dredge spoil, sediments, floatables, and other debris. 7g Add or revise municipal ordinances to require low or no phosphorus fertilizer for both business and residential use. 7h Ensure that excess salt is not being spread in watershed. (coordinate with Obj. 1i and Obj. 7e) 7i Remove trash and debris from river. Coordinate with O&M Departments to plan for events that result in excessive trash and debris, such as festivals, street fairs, and football games. 7j Adopt stream and ditch management techniques for channel rehabilitation focused on drains and open ditches. Required* Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Section 6: Goals and Objectives 6-7
Goal 8: Strive to Eliminate Pathogens to Meet Total and Partial Body Contact for Recreational Uses Individual watershed communities will strive to eliminate pathogens discharging to waterbodies primarily through their Illicit Discharge Elimination Plan (IDEP). Developing and implementing an IDEP, a plan that is approved separately from this WMP, is a requirement of Part I.A.3 of the Watershed-Based NPDES Permit. Minimization and/or management of sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) and combined sewer overflows (CSOs) is a targeted objective that came out of public and stakeholder involvement. SSO and CSO management is not a requirement of the Phase II program, so any actions taken for this objective are not part of this permit. Alternatively, actions are taken under a separate permit and are managed by other agencies within the communities. Photo courtesy of Tetra Tech, 2005 Objectives 8a Minimize and/or manage sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) and combined sewer overflow (CSOs). 8b Conduct an illicit discharge removal program including: finding problems by checking for leaking sanitary systems, leaking septic systems, and illicit connections; removing the source of the problem and prohibiting their reoccurrence through municipal code and ordinances. Required* No Yes Goal 9: Encourage Water Quality Friendly Agricultural Practices Agricultural practices have the potential to contribute large amounts of runoff laden with sediment, nutrients, and other compounds harmful to our rivers and streams. Recognizing this as a problem, Stakeholders and the Public have requested that this goal be added to the WMP. Implementation of agricultural BMPs is not a requirement of the Phase II Program. Therefore, the Goal 9 objectives are considered objectives beyond the requirement of the Phase II permit. Objectives 9a Promote and support the existing agricultural program and encourage water quality friendly practices. Focus on creating incentives. 9b Support annual community meetings on agriculture in the watershed. Required* No No Details surrounding the watershed objectives are included in Section 8 of this WMP. Although the objectives are intended to help meet the goals, an iterative process of implementation and evaluation is required to assess the effectiveness of the objectives. Refer to Section 9 for more discussion on evaluation mechanisms. 6-8 Looking Glass River Watershed April 2007
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