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Bellevue holds public hearing on draft 2025 Stormwater Management Program; permit changes could widen retrofit scope
Summary
City utilities staff presented the draft 2025 Stormwater Management Program plan and summarized changes in the Department of Ecology's 2024 NPDES permit; commissioners opened and closed a public hearing and will forward comments to the NPDES coordinator.
Tanya McFarland, senior engineering technician in Utilities and Water Quality, and Don McWilliams, operations manager in Utilities, presented Bellevue’s draft 2025 Stormwater Management Program (SWMP) plan to the Environmental Services Commission on March 6 and held a public hearing on the draft plan.
McWilliams summarized key changes in the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit issued by the Washington State Department of Ecology in late 2024. He told the commission that Ecology added three major areas of new focus: detailed mapping of tree canopy and stormwater facilities, tightened requirements for stormwater control on new development and redevelopment (lowering some thresholds from about 5,000 square feet to as low as 2,000), and a new retrofit requirement…
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