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Stormwater Program
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The purpose of the University’s Stormwater Program is to promote health, safety, and welfare within the University and its watershed by minimizing the harm to the environment by stormwater from the campus.
The program's provisions are designed to:
- Manage stormwater runoff impacts at their source by regulating activities that cause the problems and by using minimum structural controls, relying on natural processes.
- Provide review procedures and performance standards for stormwater planning and management.
- Utilize and preserve the existing natural drainage systems as much as possible.
- Focus on infiltration of stormwater, to maintain groundwater recharge, to prevent degradation of surface and groundwater quality and to otherwise protect water resources.
- Maintain existing flows and quality of streams and watercourses.
- Meet legal water quality requirements under state law, including regulations at 25 Pa. Code Chapter 93.4a to protect and maintain "existing uses" and maintain the level of water quality to support those uses in all streams, and to protect and maintain water quality in "special protection" streams.
- Prevent scour and erosion of stream banks and streambeds.
- Provide for proper operations and maintenance of all permanent stormwater management Best Management Practices (BMPs) that are implemented on University property.
- Provide a mechanism to identify controls necessary to meet the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit requirements.
- Implement an illegal discharge detection and elimination program to address non-stormwater discharges into the University’s separate storm sewer system.
- Provide for public participation in maintaining MS4 and in reporting incidents.
