[SEMCO] Workshop on Stormwater Financing - January 13, 2009

[Jo Ann Muramoto]

Stormwater Financing Workshop

 

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

9:00 am to 1:00 pm

(Registration and breakfast at 8:30 am)

 

Conference Center, Cape Cod & Islands Association of Realtors

22 Mid-Tech Drive

West Yarmouth, MA 02673

 

Description:  On Cape Cod, protecting water quality is critically important for ensuring safe drinking water supplies, swimming beaches, shellfish, aquaculture, and recreation.  Federal and state water quality standards also require communities to treat and manage stormwater runoff to prevent pollution of water bodies.  However, municipal stormwater management requires investment in trained staff, infrastructure improvements, maintenance, and management systems.  Finding the funding to manage stormwater runoff to meet state and federal water quality standards is a challenge.  Traditional sources of funding (state and federal grants) are typically not enough to address all of a community's stormwater management needs.  

 

This free workshop will provide an overview of a different approach to stormwater financing used by many communities throughout the U.S. -- stormwater utilities and fee-based systems.  The workshop will cover the basics of stormwater utilities:  the definition and purpose of a stormwater utility, how it works, how stormwater financing can help a municipality to meet stormwater regulatory requirements, national examples, types of communities that use this approach, determining whether a stormwater utility makes sense for your community, integrated water resource utilities, the Massachusetts experience with stormwater utilities, typical municipal stormwater management costs, and how to set up and implement a stormwater utility bylaw.  The workshop will end with a summary of the results of a Cape-wide survey of public works departments to determine their stormwater management needs and possible regional solutions to stormwater management.  

 

Target audience:  Municipal and County departments and boards (e.g., DPW directors, stormwater managers, town engineers, Boards of Selectmen, Town Councils, finance committees, wastewater managers, drinking water managers, Conservation Commissions, Planning and Health boards, consultants and engineering firms, and environmental organizations interested in water quality.

 

Cost:  There is no charge to attend; however, registration is required.  To register electronically, visit www.apcc.org and under the Calendar on the right hand side of the webpage, click on "More Events", then under "Stormwater Financing Workshop", click on "More info" and then click on "RSVP".  For more information, or contact Dr. Jo Ann Muramoto at (508) 362-4227 ext. 16 or jmuramoto at apcc.org .  

 

Sponsored by:  the Association to Preserve Cape Cod (APCC), the Massachusetts Bays Program on Cape Cod, Cape Cod Commission's Project Storm, and the Barnstable County Coastal Resources Committee, with funding from the Massachusetts Environmental Trust.  



Jo Ann Muramoto, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Bays Program Regional Coordinator for Cape Cod
Association to Preserve Cape Cod
3010 Main Street, P.O. Box 398
Barnstable, MA 02630-0398
Ph: (508) 362-4226, Fax: (508) 362-4227, E-mail:  jmuramoto at apcc.org 
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