Temple Area Builders Association

Storm Water Stakeholders Meeting: February 21st at 11 a.m.

If you build or develop in Temple, TABA would highly recommend that you add Storm Water Stakeholder Meeting to your calendar for February 21st.  At this meeting the City will be accepting input from the community on the practices that they will work to implement in complying with storm water regulations that not only impact our City, but our industry.

Please see the following letter that our City Engineer recently sent to TABA.  Also refer to recent articles that TABA has provided on this topic including: "Storm Water Front & Center in 07," and "TABA Needs Your Input on Storm Water."

January 23, 2007

To: All Storm Water Stakeholders
Re:  Storm Water Stakeholder Committee (SWSC) Meeting

The City of Temple Storm Water Management Program (SWMP) project got off to a great start with the first Storm Water Stakeholder Committee (SWSC) meeting that was held on November 8, 2006. We had excellent attendance of more than thirty, which is very high considering that some organizations were unable to send representatives due to previous obligations.

At the meeting, Curtis Beitel, P.E., of Carter Burgess outlined the federal regulations under the Clean Water Act, which pertain to municipal separate storm sewer systems or MS4 for short. He also presented a handbook prepared by Carter Burgess which contains the Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) General Permit No. TXR040000, EPA Fact Sheets and a list of the six minimum control measures required by the permit along with a description of Best Management Practices (BMPs) being used by other cities. It was recommended that attendees review the list of BMPs so that at our next meeting, the SWSC could vote on which BMPs they would recommend be included in the City of Temple SWMP.

The next SWSC meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 11 am. The meeting will last approximately two hours and a box lunch will be provided so we request that all who plan to attend please RSVP by February 19 so that we can make appropriate accommodations.

For Texas, the Small MS4 General Permit is still under review by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and is expected to be released soon. (Please see the following website for more details:

http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/permitting/water_quality/stormwater/WQ_ms4_AIR.html

If a representative from your organization was not present for the first meeting but you plan to have a representative present at the February 21^st meeting please contact the City of Temple Engineering Department so that you can obtain the SWSC handbook in order to review the BMPs and can be prepared to vote. We have a very limited number of handbooks available, so we can accommodate additional copies for new organizations that were not previously represented at the first meeting back in November, on a first come, first serve basis only.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or you can call or email Dwade Dalton at 298-5802 or Ddalton@ci.temple.tx.us.

Sincerely,