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UVM study recommends partial regionalization of MS4 compliance to curb staff costs
Summary
A UVM study for six Chittenden County communities recommends partially regionalizing Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) compliance tasks — consolidating 70+ tasks to 42 — and estimates about $111,000 in annual staff-time savings from selected regionalized functions.
Andrew Brown, a research specialist at the University of Vermont’s Center for Rural Studies, presented research to the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission’s MS4 Subcommittee on Aug. 5 examining options to regionalize MS4 permit compliance across six communities.
Brown said the project worked with Burlington, Colchester, Essex Junction, Essex, Shelburne and South Burlington and consolidated more than 70 distinct MS4 compliance tasks down to 42 tasks that could be candidates for regional delivery. "From the 70 tasks, we whittled it down to 42 tasks that would be most desirable to regionalize," Brown said.
The study surveyed national examples and found full regionalization is uncommon; Truckee Meadows was cited as the only fully regionalized MS4 program in the…
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