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Go X-Stream – Rivanna River Makeover

Join the City of Charlottesville in revitalizing the Rivanna River with cleanups, education programs, and stormwater retrofit projects. The Stormwater Utility ordinance facilitates funding through service charges and credits for individual stewardship initiatives.

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Go X-Stream – Rivanna River Makeover

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  1. Go X-Stream – Rivanna River Makeover

  2. Community Watersheds

  3. Cleanups, buffer plantings, education programs, paddles, shad fry release, a green school project and a stormwater retrofit project

  4. To meet the requirements of federal and state law, the City of Charlottesville has created a Stormwater Utility to help pay for the costs of creating and implementing clean up and protection programs

  5. Stormwater Problems Aging, Failing Infrastructure Drainage & Flooding

  6. Stormwater Stewardship Rainwater Harvesting Stream Restoration Stormwater Retrofits

  7. Water Quality Mandates

  8. Program Priorities • Perform Enhanced System O&M (Rehabilitation) • To maximize capacity and integrity (minimize need for major capital investment). Current public asset replacement value over $300M. • Develop City Wide Master Plan • Comprehensive plan for integrating water quality protection with drainage system improvement projects. • Invest in Long-Term Drainage Improvements • Identify critical projects after analysis of impact from rehabilitation Cost: $1.6M in Year 1; $1.9M by Year 5(Assumes bond sales)

  9. Stormwater Utility Ordinance • Authorizes the establishment of stormwater utility and the setting of service charges to support the stormwater management program. • Sets the rate based on a billing unit of 500 square feet of impervious area per property as of December 31st of each calendar year. • Sets the rate per billing unit at $1.20 per month. • Requires the development of a system of credits for Council approval. • Establishes billing and collection procedures including sending bills twice a year to property owners using the real property tax billing system.

  10. Credit Policy • Credit amount based on: • Amount of impervious surface treated • Up to 20% credit for peak rate and velocity control • Up to 40% for facilities that control volume and water quality • Additional credit available for voluntary BMPs . To encourage individual stewardship the program includes incentives

  11. Sliding Scale Credit Examples Dry Pond = 15% Efficiency Grass Channel = 23% Efficiency Vegetated Roof Level 2 = 60% Efficiency Bioretention Level 2 = 90% Efficiency

  12. Rivanna Conservation Society received a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to host Go X-Stream – Rivanna River Makeover

  13. The Go X-Stream Makeover includes funding for a Stormwater Retrofit Project at a Tax Exempt Facility

  14. We’d like for that facility to be the Sojourner Church

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