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University Place staff outline expanded inspections and minor NPDES updates at public hearing
Summary
Public Works Director Jack Eklund and NPDES coordinator Todd Smith presented the city’s annual NPDES stormwater management update, saying staff will expand annual inspections to as many private stormwater facilities as city rights allow and invited public comment before returning the plan for council consideration on March 16.
Public Works Director Jack Eklund summarized University Place’s annual update to its municipal NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) stormwater management program and emphasized one substantive change: the city will annually inspect all stormwater flow‑control and water‑quality facilities where the city has rights, not just the 80% subset the current permit explicitly requires for post‑2007 facilities.
Why it matters: the expanded inspection practice is intended to identify deferred maintenance earlier and to give homeowners’ associations and property managers guidance before problems escalate. Eklund said the city’s current permit term runs August…
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