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2. Stormwater Management
Resources
- Stormwater regulations: NR
216,
City of Milwaukee Chapter 120, DNR
Chapter 30,
DNR Chapter 30 Handbook and MMSD
Chapter 13
- Appendix
3 contains a summary of these stormwater regulations,
guidance to assist in understanding the stormwater permitting
process and information about regional stormwater treatment
opportunities in the Menomonee Valley.
- Menomonee Valley Water Resource Management Contacts:
- DNR: 414-263-8586
- City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works: 414-286-2463
- Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District: 414-225-2143
- The Sigma Group's stormwater management plan for their
Menomonee Valley headquarters improved the quality of water
discharged to the Menomonee River by 80%.
- Green Roofs retain as much as 50%-70% of the stormwater
they capture, which can significantly help you meet local
and state stormwater regulations.
- Ford Motor Company installed a green roof on one of their
Detroit assembly plants and surrounded the plant with porus
parking lots and wetlands. Rainwater is now absorbed by
the grass roof and trickles through the gravel under the
parking lots - clean by the time it reaches the adjacent
Rouge River.
- Wisconsin DNR Stormwater Management Guidance
- Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District Stormwater
Guidance Manual
- Stormwater
Manager's Resource Center
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Cost effective natural systems use water efficiently and enhance
water quality.
- Connect to regional stormwater treatment areas where available
(Contact Menomonee Valley
Partners for site specific information), or share stormwater
management practices with neighboring parcels.
- Design your stormwater conveyance system to use a connected
series of vegetated swales and channels for stormwater infiltration
in place of enclosed storm sewers.
- Design your stormwater treatment system to avoid the direct
concentrated discharge of stormwater into the river or canals.
Use the techniques identified in Appendix
3 to capture and infiltrate stormwater up to a 2-year storm
event without any discharge to surface water or municipal storm
sewers. (LEED™)
- Design landscape planting materials, soils and sub-soils for
infiltration and evapotranspiration of rainwater. Note that soils
and subsoils placed above a remedial cap can serve to store and
evapotranspire collected stormwater.
- Use drought resistant plantings, eliminating irrigation other
than collected rainwater. (LEED™)
- Consider using green roof systems to collect and eapotranspire
rainwater, thus reducing runoff as well as heating and cooling
loads.
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