City Engineer Scott Tecoch provided the City of Milton’s annual update on the municipal separate storm sewer (MS4) permit and stormwater management program, explaining regulatory changes, program milestones and near‑term projects.

Tecoch said the Georgia Environmental Protection Division issued a new MS4 permit covering 2023–2028 and that the city is in the second year of the cycle. He reviewed six required minimum control measures (public education; public participation; illicit discharge detection and elimination; construction runoff control; post‑construction runoff control; pollution prevention/good housekeeping) and said Milton has implemented 35 best‑management practices to meet those measures.

Tecoch highlighted recent monitoring by Fulton County on impaired stream reaches (Little River/Arnold Mill Road) and said habitat and biological metrics show improving water quality overall, with some higher values associated with larger rain events. He noted a multi‑site drainage program and singled out Providence Lake culvert replacement as this year’s large project; engineering costs are about $50,000 plus roughly $12,000 for survey work. Tecoch warned that much of the city’s stormwater infrastructure was built to older county standards and is nearing the end of its service life, creating a long‑term, largely unfunded maintenance and replacement need and prompting a possible future discussion of a stormwater utility.

He closed by inviting council questions on implementation details, stormwater SOPs, and environmental protections and said staff would return with project procurement requests when designs are complete.