On December 8, 1999, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) promulgated Phase II of its National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) stormwater regulations. Phase I of the USEPA stormwater program established regulations for stormwater discharges from municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s) in municipalities with populations of 100,000 or greater, construction activities disturbing five or more acres of land, and ten categories of industrial facilities. The Phase II Final Rule expands the Phase I program by requiring smaller communities with MS4s in urbanized areas to implement programs and practices to control polluted stormwater runoff through the use of NPDES permits.

Based on the 2000 census, the Town of Southbury is partially within the Bridgeport-Stamford urbanized area. As such, it falls under the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection’s (CT DEP) Phase II Stormwater Program.

Compliance with the MS4 permit is a two-part process. The first part (Part A – General Permit Registration) was the submission of a registration form including primarily administrative information and basic mapping which was submitted on March 26, 2004. The CT DEP issued the Town of Southbury a General Permit for Stormwater – Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (#GSM000028) on April 12, 2004. A copy of GSM000028 is included as Appendix A. The second part of the process is the submission of a Stormwater Management Program Plan (SWMPP) which was received by the CT DEP on July 9, 2004. Although the Town of Southbury currently implements many of the elements of a successful Stormwater Management Program, to be fully compliant, the Town must implement additional measures. The SWMPP addresses how the Town will comply with the six minimum control measures required by the NPDES permit. These six minimum measures include:

Public Education and Outreach
Public Participation/Involvement
Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination
Construction Site Runoff Control
Post-Construction Runoff Control
Good Housekeeping/Pollution Prevention

As required by the General Permit for the Discharge of Stormwater from Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems, this second Annual Report outlines the town’s compliance with said general permit, provides an assessment of the appropriateness of the identified best management practices and the Town’s progress towards achieving the implementation of each minimum control measure, provides copies of all monitoring data which may have been collected and analyzed, summarizes stormwater activities the Town plans to undertake during the next reporting cycle, and outlines any change in identified measurable goals, implementation dates, or other changes.

2.0 PUBLIC EDUCATION AND OUTREACH

2.1 Education Materials Prepared

The Town of Southbury is in the process of developing program specific material. However, the Town, in partnership with other governmental agencies, businesses, concerned citizens, and non-profit organizations such as the Pomperaug River Watershed Coalition, Southbury Land Trust, Audubon Connecticut, Flanders Nature Center and the Trust For Public Land, has developed or made available general information for public education and outreach efforts that include:

· Community Outreach efforts:

· Boy Scout Troop 1607 placed markers on storm drains along Main Street South as part of an Eagle project.

· Brochures on how to protect water resources such as:

· The Pomperaug River Watershed Coalition, Help Us Protect Your Water Resources.

· The Trust For Public Land, Protecting The Source-Land Conservation And The Future Of America’s Drinking Water.

· The “Speakers Bureau,” Is Your Organization Looking For An Interesting Speaker?

· The Pomperaug River Watershed Coalition, Mission Statement.

· Assessing the Vulnerability of Public-Supply Wells to Contamination from Urban, Agricultural, and Natural Sources by U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Geological Survey

· River Voices, Effects of Stormwater Runoff from Development by Robert Pitt, P.E., University of Alabama