A 5-Part Workshop Series

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Preventing Stormwater Pollution at Your Public
Works Facility
A 5-Part Workshop Series
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Name, titleFacility supervisor or other MS4
trainerTelephone, email
Presented By
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• Acknowledgments
• This series was developed by the Southern Rhode
  Island Conservation District in partnership with
  the URI Cooperative Extension RI NEMO Program and
  the Rhode Island T2 Center. Funding was provided
  by the RI Department of Environmental Management
  and the RI Department of Transportation under the
  Phase II Stormwater Education and Outreach
  Program.

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Workshop Series Overview
Preventing Stormwater Pollution at Your Public
Works Facility

1. Why Stormwater Matters
2. What is a SWPPP
3. Spill Prevention Response
4. Good Housekeeping
5. Materials Management

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2008 Winter Workshop Schedule
All sessions held at the Town Highway
Garage Street address, Meeting Room 900- 1030
AM
Preventing Stormwater Pollution at Your Public
Works Facility
Date Session
Jan. 3 Jan. 10 Jan. 17 Jan. 24 Jan. 30 Why Stormwater Matters What is a SWPPP? Spill prevention and response Good housekeeping Materials management
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Part 1 Why Stormwater Matters
Preventing Stormwater Pollution at Your Public
Works Facility A 5-Part Workshop Series
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Logistics and Format

• Review of handout packet
• Agenda review
• Informal your input needed!
• Respect and courtesy - there are no bad
  questions!
• Sign in for our records
• Please turn off cell phones.

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Todays Topics

• Why stormwater matters
• Impacts of stormwater runoff
• Exercise Map stormwater flow through the DPW
  facility.

Session 1 Objectives Understand how stormwater
pollution is affecting our local streams and
ponds. Recognize how stormwater flows through
our facility and where it ends up.
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Why Stormwater Matters
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Water Pollution in RI?Public perception and
progress
Industrial municipal discharges
CSO improvements
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Stormwater pollution is now the 1 water quality
problem in the U.S.
And the major source of pollution to RI waters
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In R.I. 22 of surface waters are not meeting
fishable swimmable standards due to stormwater
pollution. - RIDEM
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What is Stormwater pollution?

• Rainwater falling on roads, parking lots and
  other impervious surfaces picks up oil, spills,
  road sand and salt, sediment from construction
  sites, fertilizers, animal waste and discharges
  it to the nearest stormdrain without treatment.

http//www.oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/kits/es
tuaries/media/supp_estuar09c_pathogens.html
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Waterflow in undeveloped areas
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Development Impacts on Water Flow
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10 runoff
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Development Impacts on Water Quantity
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Development Impacts on Water Quality

• Sediment
• Nutrients
• Bacteria viruses
• Oil, toxics
• Debris
• Road salt
• Thermal Stress

More Runoff More Pollutants
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Why focus on public works facilities?
Water Quality Materials used or stored can
pollute stormwater
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Polluted Stormwater Water Quality Impacts
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Summary
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Public Works Facility Operations Maintenance
for Stormwater Management Employee Training

• Brought to you by

This program was developed by the Southern Rhode
Island Conservation District in partnership with
the URI Cooperative Extension RI NEMO Program and
the Rhode Island T2 Center. Funding was provided
by the RI Department of Environmental Management
and the RI Department of Transportation under the
Phase II Stormwater Education and Outreach
Program.
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Exercise!
How does stormwater flow through our facility?

• Inspect map(s) of facility site and surrounding
  area.
• Draw water flow patterns on site map.
• What downstream resources could be affected?