Introduction to Stormwater : Impacts to Solutions

1. Introduction to Stormwater: Impacts to Solutions Funding by Madison Area Municipal Stormwater Partnership

2. Stormwa′ter – • Stormwater is precipitation running or flowing over land plus anything carried along with it. • Stormwater comes from all forms of precipitation - rain, snow, sleet or ice melt.

4. Rain, Rain Go Away!

5. Water Cycle

6. Rain that falls... soaks into the earth ...

7. …where it flows from underground into ournatural waterways

8. Natural Spring

9. Rain falls on our roadways,parking lots & roofs

11. Water flows at high speeds through stormsewer pipes

12. 40% evapotranspiration 38% evapotranspiration 10% Runoff 23% Runoff 42% Infiltration 50% Infiltration 10%-20% Impervious Natural Ground Cover 30% evapotranspiration 35% evapotranspiration 30% Runoff 55% Runoff 15% Infiltration 35% infiltration 35% - 50% Impervious Cover 75% - 100% Impervious Cover

15. Hydrograph Pre/ Post Development Developed Condition: Higher Peak, More Volume, & Earlier Peak Time Flow Rate Natural Condition Time

16. Flash Floods

17. Erosion

18. Not Just Quantity. Quality too! With each rain “runoff”, organic matter, soil, fertilizer, oil and chemicals get added to our lakes and streams

19. Healthy Streams =

20. Mayfly Healthy Homes Painted Turtle

24. Water based tourism brings Wisconsin $12 - $15 billion dollars every year

25. What Can We Do?

26. Act more like this Need to make this

27. Solutions: Help Water Soak into the Soil Build a Rain Garden or a Rain Barrel

28. Dogs can help, too! Reduce Hard Surfaces on Roof Tops in Parking lots Chicago City Hall

29. Improve Water Quality Only Rain Goes Down the Drain

30. Conserve Water

31. All community members, from young to old, from student to teacher, are the solution to storm water pollution.

32. Thank You! For more information: ripple-effects.com Adapted from The Value of Rain Gardens, University of Wisconsin - Extension & Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources: By Earth Partnership for Schools University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum 1207 Seminole Highway Madison, WI 53711 www.uwarboretum.org Photo Credits: Roger Bannerman, Jim Bertolacini, Margaret Burlingham, Center for Watershed Protection, DNR and UWEX file photos, Matt Hanson, Carolyn Johnson, Bob Queen, Ellen Rulseh, Bill Volkert, Suzanne Wade, Jim Lorman, Dan Nedrelo, Larry Coffman January 2006 (updated 2017) Funding by Madison Area Municipal Stormwater Partnership