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Stormwater briefing: Hope Mills staff outline NPDES requirements, master plan and project funding needs
Summary
Stormwater administrator Beth Brown told the Hope Mills Board the town’s phase II NPDES permit and a June 2025 master plan guide work on water-quality projects, inspections and outreach; major projects typically exceed $1 million and staff are building a reserve before starting larger capital work.
Beth Brown, Hope Mills stormwater administrator, told the town board at the May special meeting that the municipal program focuses on water quality under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) and is distinct from sanitary sewer or flood-control work.
Brown summarized the regulatory framework that traces to the Clean Water Act and the town’s phase II NPDES permit (issued in 2006). The permit requires a five-year implementation cycle and six “minimum control measures”: public education and outreach; public involvement; illicit-discharge detection and elimination; construction-site runoff controls; post-construction runoff controls; and municipal good housekeeping.
Why it matters: untreated stormwater runoff flows directly to local streams and can carry…
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