Secondary and Cumulative Impacts Master Management Plan - 2014

TOWN OF MORRISVILLE

preventions, the Town contracts a street sweeper to sweep all Town owned roads and parking lots 4 to 6 times per year. Morrisville also has an active stormwater education program. The Town has teamed with other municipalities to provide outreach and education to help reduce stormwater pollution and nutrient loading from homeowners and businesses as part of the Clear Water Education Partnership (CWEP). This may include radio and television advertisements, handouts, website, etc. Other elements of the stormwater education program include the Town’s monthly newsletter and other mailings, newspaper advertisements, workshops, and the internet. The Town also distributes stormwater materials to Cedar Fork and Morrisville Elementary Schools and displays information in the lobby of Town Hall, as well as at community events, including National Night Out, Green Day, and various homeowner association meetings. Town presence at these events sometimes includes a staff member dressed in costume as a fish character, for enhanced public involvement and engagement. Town staff also provides stormwater educational “giveaways” at these events and around Town. Giveaways includes pens, water bottles, rain gauges, reusable bags, pet waste bag dispensers, stickers, and temporary tattoos for the kids. The Town has installed educational signs along greenways and at Town-owned BMPs. In addition to education, the Town seeks opportunities for involvement and participation. The Town is currently collecting responses to a stormwater survey that will allow the program to better target educational activities. The Town also oversees a resident advisory committee known as RAIN (Residents Active in Improving the eNvironment), whose purpose is to review and recommend stormwater improvement opportunities, as well as help facilitate public involvement and education. The RAIN committee plans to do a pilot stream clean event to determine if a formal stream clean program will be implemented in the Town. Public participation also is solicited for storm drain making. The Town sells rain barrels at cost, providing free delivery, and, in 2013, held a rain-water barrel workshop free of cost to the public. The Town maintains a watershed map depicting the location and type of all of the storm drainage system and structural BMPs currently in place. Having data on a single map is required by the Town’s Phase II permit and is also beneficial in Town stormwater education, good housekeeping, and IDDE efforts. 6.2.5.3 Stormwater Capital Improvement Plan Several stormwater capital improvement projects are in process, including outfall retrofits, stream restoration, and BMP retrofits. These projects will improve both water quality and water quantity at each site. The Town stormwater program is currently working on a BMP retrofit at Fire Station 2 site, located within the Crabtree Creek Watershed. The retrofit will include a rain garden to be installed with public participation, as well as a 5,000-gallon cistern. The Town recently purchased property adjacent to a stream with plans to perform a stream restoration and/or BMP retrofits. A feasibility study is currently being performed for this stream project. 6.2.5.4 Water Supply Watershed WSW rules apply to new development in the Jordan Lake watershed. These rules, similar to those of the NPDES Phase II permit, require most new development to control the runoff

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