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Indian Trail hires consultant to map impervious surfaces; aims to update stormwater fee assessments
Summary
Council awarded a professional services contract to Freese and Nichols to map impervious surfaces and update stormwater-fee assessments; staff said the update is intended to capture unreported commercial impervious area and to enable more accurate residential tiers. The council voted unanimously to award the contract not to exceed $129,350.
The Indian Trail Town Council on March 11 approved a contract with Freese and Nichols Inc. to perform an updated impervious-area mapping and a stormwater-fee assessment, a two-part project the town said will support more accurate stormwater billing and FEMA-required floodplain mapping.
The selected firm will produce GIS-based impervious-area mapping for every parcel and perform floodplain/structure mapping requested by FEMA. Staff and consultants told the council the work will let the town capture commercial impervious surfaces that have been added without permitting (for example, expanded gravel or paved storage…
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