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MiAPPA Conference Eastern Michigan University July 14-15, 2009

Students and Stormwater: How to Effectively Integrate Student Involvement in Stormwater Permit Compliance. MiAPPA Conference Eastern Michigan University July 14-15, 2009. Facilitators and Goal. GREEN Student Leaders and EMU Stormwater Management Work Group

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MiAPPA Conference Eastern Michigan University July 14-15, 2009

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  1. Students and Stormwater:How to Effectively Integrate Student Involvement in Stormwater Permit Compliance MiAPPA Conference Eastern Michigan University July 14-15, 2009

  2. Facilitators and Goal • GREEN Student Leaders and EMU Stormwater Management Work Group • Goal: Participants will leave the session more knowledgeable about stormwater permit compliance and how to incorporate student involvement in the planning and implementation of permit compliance efforts

  3. Our Audience • No permit compliance ? • Some permit compliance ? • Significant permit compliance ? • Too much permit compliance ? • Watersheds ?

  4. Permit Compliance Water Quantity / Quality Rain Runoff in Urbanized Areas

  5. Permit Compliance

  6. Urbanized Areas • Michigan City • Monroe • Muskegon • Port Huron • Saginaw • South Lyon /Howell / Brighton • South Bend Indiana • Toledo Ohio • Ann Arbor • Battle Creek • Bay City • Benton Harbor • Detroit • Elkhart Indiana • Flint • Kalamazoo • Lansing

  7. Permit Compliance • Water Quantity / Quality • Rain Runoff in Urbanized Areas • Who at EMU • Physical Plant • Executive Management • University Communications and Marketing • Consultant • Faculty • Student Volunteers

  8. What is Stormwater?

  9. Why does Stormwater Matter? 75% of the pollution entering our lakes and streams today comes from stormwater runoff Too much stormwater can cause… flooding, erosion and property damage

  10. What is Stormwater Management? Practice of treating, preventing, and/or reducing runoff Quantity and Quality!

  11. POOR WATER QUALITY

  12. Six Minimum MeasuresNational Pollutant Discharge Elimination System • Public Education • Public Involvement • Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination • Soil Erosion Sediment Control • Post Construction BMPs • Good Housekeeping

  13. EMU Stormwater Management Collaborative effort between EMU and City of Ypsilanti Diverse representation Events Ypsilanti Heritage Festival GREEN Tent Storm Drain Labeling Capture the Trash Hazardous Waste Drop-off Day

  14. GREEN Tent

  15. Storm Drain Labeling

  16. Capture the Trash

  17. Hazardous Waste Drop-off Day

  18. Tricks of the Trade • Using student organization and involvement networks • Finding student leaders • Recruiting student and community volunteers • Documenting efforts • Evaluations • Record-keeping • Public relations and marketing

  19. High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth. EDMUND S. MUSKIE, U.S. Senator, speech, 1 March 1966

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