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For over 10 years, the Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy has aided municipalities of the watershed in meeting the educational requirements of the Municipal Split Storm Sewer System (MS4) allow.

What is Ms4?

The MS4 plan is mandated nether the Clean Water Act and administered past the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The goal of this program is to reduce the amount of pollution being discharged into waterbodies from separate storm sewer systems (MS4s).

An MS4 is a collection of structures, similar a retention basin, roadside inlet or secret pipe, that are designed to collect and transport polluted stormwater and discharge information technology, untreated, into local waterways. MS4s are owned or operated by a city, boondocks or other public entity and are not continued to the sanitary sewer system or waste material water treatment plant.

Through this program, local municipalities must obtain a let to legally belch stormwater into local streams and creeks. In lodge to meet the terms of this permit, they need to create a Stormwater Management Plan (SWMP) that is designed to reduce the amount of pollution inbound local waterbodies.

Every SWMP must address the same 6 focus areas, also called Minimum Command Measures (MCMs) that are considered essential for successfully reducing stormwater pollution:

Public Educational activity and Outreach
Public Participation and Interest
Illicit Discharge Detection and Emptying
Structure Site Runoff Control
Mail-Construction Runoff Control
Pollution Prevention/Expert Housekeeping for Municipal Operations

Our MS4 Programme

The Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy offers annual membership opportunities to municipals inside the watershed to assist them meet the requirements of the MS4 permit.
Through this membership, municipalities receive various benefits (outlined below) designed to assistance them accost the minimum control measures and reduce stormwater pollution within their township or borough.
To learn more than about the Conservancy'southward MS4 programme, including membership levels and associated benefits, please gyre down.
If you are interested in more information or are looking to enroll in this annual program, delight e-mail our Conservation Coordinator, Jessie Kemper.
To go a member for the 2022 let year, please be sure to sign-up prior to March ane, 2022!

Storm water Solutions

Learn more than about what y'all can exercise to reduce stormwater pollution at home and inside your municipality.

Membership Information

Larn more than almost the membership levels and the do good you will receive through your membership with PWC.

Grant Programme

Larn more about the grant program, application process as well equally project guidelines for $1,000 members.

2022 Membership Benefits:

Benefactor: $1000

Benefactors are eligible for the post-obit membership benefits:

Educational Articles. You lot will exist given access to educational articles, pamphlets or handouts created past PWC to educate residents about stormwater pollution issues.
Stormwater Reduction Statistics Package. This informational package will show which PWC events your municipality and/or residents participated in and provide you with statistics from those events that can exist used in your MS4 reports. Statistics could include the number of volunteers involved/volunteer hours, amount of trash removed from a site inside your municipality, number of trees planted along riparian areas, amounts of invasive species removed from waterways, etc.
Municipal MS4 Grant Program.Y'all will have the opportunity to submit a grant application to install a stormwater BMP inside your municipality. The grant will exist submitted to PWC who will review the applications and carry out the selected project(s).
Active Workshop.Your residents will be able to participate in an active workshop where PWC will demonstrate how to build and install stormwater BMPs for residential properties. PWC will provide all the necessary equipment and materials for attendees to follow forth and build their own BMP.
Municipal Staff Workshop. Y'all will accept the opportunity to receive one PWC- provided training session for municipal staff.

Patron: $500

Patrons are eligible for the following membership benefits:

Educational Articles. You will be given access to educational articles, pamphlets or handouts created past PWC to educate residents near stormwater pollution issues.
Resident Workshop. You will have the opportunity to schedule a stormwater workshop for residents of your municipality. Workshops topics could include stormwater pollution, the MS4 program, ways to manage stormwater, etc.

Promoter Level: $250

Promoters are eligible for the following membership benefits:

Educational Manufactures. You will be given access to educational articles, pamphlets, or handouts created by PWC to educate residents most stormwater pollution problems.

2022 Municipal Members with MS4 benefits:

Perkasie Borough
East Greenville Civic
Marlborough Township
Salford Township
Upper Pottsgrove
Hilltown Township
West Rockhill Township
Lower Pottsgrove
Civic of Pennsburg
Lower Providence Township
New Hanover Township
Upper Milford Township
Schwenksville Borough
Lansdale Borough
Lower Frederick
Upper Frederick Township
Lower Salford Township
Limerick Township
Upper Gwynedd Township
Sellersville Borough
Towamencin Township
Borough of Trappe
Civic of Souderton
Upper Salford Township
Perkiomen Township
Telford Borough