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To: Honorable Mayor and City Council
From: John Caven
Date: April 21, 2010
Re: Public Hearing for Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP)
The federal Clean Water Act requires small cities to submit a permit to discharge storm
water into receiving water bodies. The storm water permit covers a five year period,
starting in 2007, and is intended to reduce pollutants from not only our storm sewer
discharge points, but also from overland runoff that drains directly to rivers, lakes and
ponds.
Hastings submitted their first storm water permit annual report to the Minnesota Pollution
Control Agency (MPCA) on June 30, 2008. As part of the permit, the City was required
to address six separate areas referred to as minimum control measures:
1. Public education and outreach
2. Public participation/involvement.
3. Illicit discharge detection and elimination.
4. Construction site stormwater runoff control.
5. Post construction storm water management in new development and
redevelopment.
6. Pollution prevention/good housekeeping for municipal operations.
A total of 34 mandatory best management practices were required to be included within
the six minimum control measures. In the report, the City documented all best
management activities that met these requirements. Among the highlights, the City
1. Provided a storm water quality article in every Rivertown Newsletter.
2. Continued to participate in the annual Spring Clean -up Day, Earth Day, and
Arbor Day.
3. Participated in the Dakota County Blue Thumb Initiative to design and install
rain gardens.
4. Worked with Friends of the Mississippi on a grant opportunity for a possible
raingarden planting in 2010.
5. Drafted Stormwater Management and Flood Plain
Ordinances to be presented to the city council for
consideration during during the summer of 2010. The changes
will bring Hastings' ordinances in conformance with the
Vermillion River Watershed Joint Powers Organization's. _ _
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(VRWJPO) rules and regulations.
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6. Implemented a Stormwater Utility fee designed to maintain the City's existing
storm water system.
7. Inspected all sump manholes and stockpiles, and 20% of the outfalls and
ponds.
The MPCA will review and comment on Hasting's annual report submittals during a
future audit. In the mean time, the City will continue, in 2010, to record and improve the
current SWPPP to meet the permit requirements for the June 2010 annual report
submittal, one of which is a required public hearing for the Storm Water Pollution
Prevention Plan performed in 2009.
Council Action Requested
Order public hearing for Hastings annual Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan on June
7, 2010.
CITY OF HASTINGS
DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO.
RESOLUTION ORDERING PUBLIC HEARING FOR STORM WATER POLLUTION
PREVENTION PLAN (SWPPP)
WHEREAS, the City annually conducts a public hearing to present a summary of the annual
storm water pollution prevention activities as part of its Storm Water Permit requirements;
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
HASTINGS AS FOLLOWS; that
1. A Public Hearing for the Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan be held at the 7pm council
meeting on Monday, June 7, 2010, and;
2. An advertisement of the Public Hearing be published in the Hastings Star Gazette on May 13 and
be posted on the City's website on May 13
ORDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF HASTINGS, MINNESOTA, THIS Y DAY OF
MAY, 2010.
Ayes:
Nays:
Paul J Hicks, Mayor
ATTEST:
Melanie Mesko Lee, City Clerk
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