Stormwater and Green Infrastructure Finance & Management: How do You Pay?

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1 Stormwater and Green Infrastructure Finance & Management: How do You Pay? Jeff Hughes UNC School of Government Environmental Finance Center

2 Acknowledgements Some of the research used for this presentation was made possible by funding from the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Conservation Trust for North Carolina through a grant from the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities

3 30 Second Introductions 1. Name? 2. Organization? 3. Responsibility? 4. Stormwater utility? (yes, no, heck no ) 5. One specific service/program element not previously mentioned that is: designed to protect water quality by controlling the level of pollutants in, and the quantity and flow of, stormwater

4 Housekeeping Refreshments Evaluations Car parking Issue parking Waste management during course Continuing education credits

5 Workshop Objectives Improve understanding of guiding legal and regulatory framework impacting stormwater/greeen infrastructure finance and management. Provide forum for sharing finance and management perspectives, ideas, and experiences. Identify, evaluate and market different financing strategies.

6 Agenda

7 What is Green Infrastructure

8 Is there a better option? An excellent way to keep your IT staff employed 8

9 Which of the following best missions can you best relate to? 1. Manage impacts of stormwater 2. Protect watershed quality 3. Effective public administration 4. Manage eco-system services Engineering/science 20% 20% 20% 20% 20% Law Finance/accounting General management... French Literature

10 Which of the following describes your priority interest? 1. Complying with minimum regulatory requirements 2. Protecting water resources 3. Managing stormwater flow 4. Minimizing financial expenditures Complying with min... 25% 25% 25% 25% Protecting water reso... Managing stormwater... Minimizing financial...

11 Regulatory History If Richard Whisnant were giving this presentation, he d start with Genesis... We ll start a little closer to home in time and place

12 Stormwater/Green Infrastructure Why Federal Law State Law Local requirements Population demands it Flooding Greening What Centralized Decentralized Private Public Quantity Quality Education Planning

13 Lots of Watershed Regulations in North Carolina

14 The Number Is Growing...

15 .. and growing

16 A Bizarre Checkerboard? Funding Soil & Water Cons. Sed & Erosion Control Coastal SW Water Supply WS ORW, HQW, SA, Trt NPDES Phase 1 NSW (Tar, Neuse, Jordan) NPDES Phase 2 Construction plan approval High density BMP design approval Public education Gov t good housekeeping Sampling Illicit discharge elimination I & M post-construction Local Permits Existing development load reductions

17 Federal Stormwater Regulations Part of 1987 amendments to Clean Water Fund Two-phase approach to stormwater Phase I: Large Municipalities (Raleigh, Durham, Fayetteville-Cumberland County, Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Charlotte) Phase II: Smaller Municipalities (around 100 communities permitted in NC)

18 Phase II six minimum measures Public Education and Outreach Public Participation/Involvement Illicit Discharge Detection & Elimination Construction Site Runoff/Control Post-Construction Runoff Control Pollution Prevention/Good Housekeeping

19 Small Group, Each Group Identify: What is major reason for stomwater/green infrastructure List of specific projects underway or being planned Most expensive initiative Coolest initiative Most challenging initiative Governance structure for stormwater management Most important revenue source

20 EPA Stormwater Integrated Framework