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To: Honorable Mayor and City Council
From: John Caven
Date: April 29, 2009
Re: Public Hearing for Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP)
The federal Clean Water Act requires small cities to submit a permit to discharge storm
water into receiving water bodies. The storm water permit covers a five year period,
starting in 2007, and is intended to reduce pollutants from not only our storm sewer
discharge points, but also from overland rmoff that drains directly to rivers, lakes and
ponds.
Hastings submitted their first storm water permit annual report to the Minnesota Pollution
Control Agency (MPCA) on June 30, 2008. As part of the permit, the City was required
to address six separate areas referred to as minimum control measures:
1. Public education and outreach
2. Public participation/involvement.
3. lllicit discharge detection and elimination.
4. Constriction site stormwater rmoff control.
5. Post constriction storm water management in new development and
redevelopment.
6. Pollution prevention/good housekeeping for municipal operations.
A total of 34 mandatory best management practices were required to be included within
the six minimum control measures. In the report, the City documented all best
management activities that met these requirements. Among the highlights, the City
1. Added over fifty stormwater related articles to the City website.
2. Provided a storm water quality article in every Rivertown Newsletter.
3. Continued to participate in the annual Spring Clean-up Day, Earth Day, Arbor
Day, and Green Aware Fair.
4. Participated in the Dakota County Blue Thumb Initiative to design and install
rain gardens.
5. Expanded the Public Works Building, and site, with an
environmentally friendly design, both inside and out.
6. Inspected all sump manholes, 20% of the outfalls, _ ;°~ f~ =- -,~.
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stockpiles, and ponds. --~ ~ ~
The MPCA will review and comment on Hastings first annual ~ ~.~.-_ _r
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report submittal In the mean time, the City will continue, in ~r[°Y ®~ ~~~~,~~~
2009, to record and improve the current SWPPP to meet the permit requirements for the
June 2009 annual report submittal, one of which is a required public hearing for the
Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan performed in 2008.
Council Action Requested:
Order public hearing for Hastings annual Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan on June
1, 2009.
CITY OF HASTINGS
D ahOT a COUNTY", MINNESOT a
RESOLL~IION NO.
RESOLUTION ORDERING PUBLIC HEARING FOR STORM WATER POLLUTION
PREVENTION PLAN (SWPPP)
WHEREAS, the City annually conducts a public hearing to present a summary of the annual
storm water pollution prevention activities as part of its Storm Water Permit requirements;
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
HASTINGS AS FOLLOWS; that
1. A Public Hearing for the Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan be held at the 7pm council
meeting on Monday, June 1, 2009, and;
2. An advertisement of the Public Hearing be published in the Hastings Star Gazette on May 7"' and
be posted on the City's ~~ebsite on May 7"'
ORDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF HASTINGS, MINNESOTA, THIS 4t'` DAY OF
MAY, 2009.
Ares:
Nay s:
Paul J. Hicks, Mayor
ATTEST:
Melanie Mesko Lee, City Clerk
SEAL