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Sustainable practices on campus can help achieve Storm Water Compliance

Sustainable practices on campus can help achieve Storm Water Compliance. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign C. Eliana Brown Storm Water Coordinator. MS4 BLUE Future Projects. MS4. Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System BMP = Best Management Practice.

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Sustainable practices on campus can help achieve Storm Water Compliance

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  1. Sustainable practices on campus can help achieve Storm Water Compliance University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign C. Eliana Brown Storm Water Coordinator

  2. MS4 • BLUE • Future Projects

  3. MS4 Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System BMP = Best Management Practice

  4. BMPsBest Management Practices

  5. BMPsBest Management Practice Expressly prohibit illegal discharges from entering the storm sewer system.

  6. BMPsBest Management Practice Campus Administrative Manual Section V/B - 3.1

  7. BMPsBest Management Practice Develop a construction standard that requires new storm sewer inlets to have storm water protection warnings.

  8. BMPsBest Management Practice Facilitate student storm stenciling projects.

  9. BMPsBest Management Practice Provide annual spill prevention training to employees who regularly handle oil.

  10. BMPsBest Management Practice Identify priority areas likely to have illicit discharges.

  11. BMPsBest Management Practice Limit vehicle cleaning to the campus car wash facility to prevent wash water from reaching the storm sewer or the ground.

  12. BMPsBest Management Practice Require campus construction projects (>1 acre) to have a Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan that minimizes erosion runoff.

  13. BMPsBest Management Practice Identify plant material at new construction developments sites to be retained and preserved during construction.

  14. BMPsBest Management Practice Reduce, or at a minimum, maintain the existing peak storm water runoff characteristics of all land and buildings.

  15. BLUE Building a Lasting University Environment

  16. Faculty/Student Project • Facilities & Services (F&S) partner with Faculty/Students teams. • F&S provides funding.

  17. Faculty/Student Project • The projects: • Add value to an F&S scheduled project. • Provide opportunity to support academic research and involve students. • Provide a sustainability demonstration site on campus.

  18. Faculty/Student Project Porous pavement parking lot

  19. LEED certified building • • Gold rating • • Roof top gardens • • Bioswale • • Snout device

  20. Future…

  21. Rain Garden

  22. Rain Barrel

  23. Thank you!Questions?

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