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Stormwater program staff brief council on MS4 annual report, potential state law changes
Summary
City stormwater staff presented the annual MS4 report, noting upcoming IDEM audit, proposed state bills that may limit local construction stormwater requirements, and planned updates to city stormwater ordinances and mapping.
John Goetz, a staff member who presented the annual Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) report, told the Columbia City Common Council on March 25 that Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) will audit the city's stormwater programs this year.
"We were contacted by IDEM's stormwater coordinator for MS4s, and we're going to be audited again this year," Goetz said, listing education, participation, illicit-discharge detection and municipal-operations programs as areas to be reviewed.
Goetz said the city is in the third year of its…
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