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Sustainable Stormwater Management Plan for UNC

Develop a comprehensive stormwater management plan to balance growth while preserving natural drainage systems and meeting regulatory requirements. The plan includes BMPs such as infiltration beds, pervious pavement, and roof gardens.

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Sustainable Stormwater Management Plan for UNC

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  1. Stormwater Master Plan University of North Carolina Peter A. Reinhardt Sharon Myers, L.G. Department of Environment, Health and Safety

  2. Project Goals • “Balance growth with the preservation of the natural drainage system.” • Meet 8-year Development Plan requirements • NPDES Phase II Post-Construction runoff requirements

  3. University Growth • Over next 8 years, 5.9 million square feet of laboratory, classroom, office, and student housing space will be added • Bond referendum

  4. Chapel Hill Development Plan Stormwater Requirements • No increase in the volume of run-off • 2 Year, 24 hour, 3.6” storm event • No increase in peak runoff rates • Remove 85% of suspended solids for first inch of precipitation • Promise to improve stormwater practices.

  5. Draft NPDES Phase II Post-Construction Requirements • Control and treat runoff from the 1-year, 24-hour storm • 85% removal for total suspended solids • Side slopes no steeper than 3:1 • Minimum setbacks from surface waters

  6. Campus Watershed • Meeting of the Waters Creek drainage area 441.3 acres • Existing impervious cover 218.3 acres (49%) • 8-year Development Plan impervious cover 221.47 acres (50%) • Increase of 3.17 acres • Volume reduction required for 2 year 3.6” storm is 138,160 cubic feet (CF)

  7. The Problem with Pavement • Increase in pavement or buildings (impervious surface) causes • More water to run off • Water to run off faster • Degraded water quality

  8. Analysis of Best Management Practices (BMPs) • UNC BMP requirements • allow stormwater to infiltrate • allow stormwater reuse • reduce runoff • fit existing landscaping (National Landmark for Outstanding Landscape Architecture by the American Society of Landscape Architects) • allow continued University growth

  9. Infiltration Bed with Reuse • Carmichael Intramural field with storage/infiltration in underlying gravel with water reuse from cistern • Projected Storage = 72,000 CF • Project Cost $1,105,415 • Cost Benefit ($/CF) = $15.35

  10. Pervious Pavement • Infiltration through porous asphalt or concrete • Campus total projected storage = 45,788 CF • Campus total projected cost = $610,515 • Cost Benefit ($/CF) = $13.33

  11. Roof Gardens • Low maintenance plants in light, engineered soil over a waterproof membrane • Projected storage for Carrington Hall = 960 CF • Projected cost for Carrington = $137, 709 • Cost Benefit ($/CF) = $143.45

  12. Completed and Proposed BMPs • Five infiltration beds under fields • Three pervious pavement lots • Numerous tree trenches • Five roof gardens • One rain garden

  13. Other BMPs Under Consideration • Rain gardens • Landscape conversions (lawn to fields, planting areas, reforestation) • Cisterns • Water quality inlets

  14. Will We Comply? • 138,160 CF volume reduction required for Development Ordinance Compliance • Total projected stormwater storage volume 372,804 CF • Estimated BMP cost $12,634,741

  15. How Will We Know? • Quarterly visual inspections where stormwater leaves campus • Semiannual aquatic insect sampling • Continuous stream flow gauge with indicator parameter monitoring • ehs.unc.edu/environmental/water_quality/

  16. Determine your priorities Hire creative consultants Andropogon Associates Cahill Associates The Rose Group Assume that there are many utility corridors that are not accurately mapped Avoiding Problems

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