Stormwater Programming Lessons Learned – Lunch and Learn Series Events

Stormwater Programming Lessons Learned with Richard Mulledy, City of Colorado Springs

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

• Provide an overview of the City of Colorado Springs Stormwater Program, it’s structure, and future projects/programs/initiatives.
• Discuss lessons learned from the recent MS4 Permit enforcement action, federal trial, and consent decree negotiations.
• Provide an overview of the City’s recently adopted consent decree structure and requirements.

Over the last 5 years, the City of Colorado Springs has drastically transformed its stormwater program. The transformation starting in 2016, with a $460 million commitment by the City to improve its program and citywide stormwater infrastructure system. This agreement commits the city to improving its stormwater program, completing a significant number of stormwater related infrastructure projects, and improving the maintenance operations of its stormwater infrastructure. At the same time, the City has been working hard to settle an enforcement action and federal lawsuit brought forward by the United States EPA, the State of Colorado, Pueblo County, and the Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservation District for noncompliance of its MS4 permit. Finally, the City of Colorado Springs recently passed, by ballot measure, the reintroduction of a stormwater fee on developed and improved properties. The approved ballot measure reinstates the Stormwater Enterprise and provides a fee structure for the generation of revenue necessary to implement stormwater related projects, programs, and consent decree requirements.

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