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City staff present draft stormwater technical standards manual; adoption scheduled for Oct. 6
Summary
City staff presented a draft update to the City of Madison Stormwater Technical Standards Manual — accompanying recent ordinance changes to chapters 54 and 55 — and asked the Board of Public Works and Safety to review the 100+-page manual before adoption at the Oct. 6 meeting.
City staff presented the draft City of Madison Stormwater Technical Standards Manual to the Board of Public Works and Safety on Sept. 15 and asked members to review the 100+-page document before the board considers formal adoption at its Oct. 6 meeting.
Staff said the manual follows a city-council ordinance change that repealed and replaced portions of Chapters 54 (stormwater regulations) and 55 (post-construction stormwater regulations). The manual provides technical standards and calculation methods that engineers must use for stormwater plans and will guide city plan review and inspections.
Staff described the manual as applying primarily to developments that disturb more than one acre of land and said it uses Purdue LTAP (local technical assistance) draft documents and Jeffersonville’s implementation as starting points, modified for Madison’s topography. City staff noted the city’s steep hills and said retention and detention measures were emphasized to address runoff that flows toward the Ohio River and local creeks.
Staff said a committee consisting of public-works staff, the treatment-plant superintendent and the city’s third-party reviewer worked with consultant OHM to prepare the manual, which includes appendices with construction detail and links to current state practices. The document will be returned to the board for action at the next meeting and staff invited board members to submit questions before Oct. 6.
