Stormwater Utilities Research Articles

Proactive Financial Responses Improve Performance During Challenging Financial Times

Proactive Financial Responses Improve Performance During Challenging Financial TimesMost wastewater, water, and stormwater utilities face substantially increased financial challenges today, as the global financial crisis of 2008 & 2009 translates into greater financial uncertainties. Regulatory drivers such as CSO/SSO requirements for wastewater utilities are requiring many utility systems to ramp up capital spending at a time when system usage is down, and revenues therefore...Author(s)Mike MatichichSourceProceedings of the Water Environment FederationSubjectSession 3: Long Term Financial PlanningDocument typeConference PaperPublisherWater Environment FederationPrint publication date Jan, 2010ISSN1938-6478SICI1938-6478(20100101)2010:1L.63;1-DOI10.2175/193864710798286678Volume / Issue2010 / 1Content sourceUtility Management ConferenceFirst / last page(s)63 - 73Copyright2010Word count175Subject keywordsfinanceutility managementCIP prioritizationfinancial planningstrategic planning

STORMWATER INTELLIGENT CONTROLLER SYSTEM

STORMWATER INTELLIGENT CONTROLLER SYSTEMWater restrictions, the requirement to reduce total maximum daily loads (TMDLs), and the emergence of stormwater utilities have lead to the development of an automated intelligent system (“I-Water”) for water use and control. With the use of this system, water stored in ponds and in the ground is not discharged to surface waters because it is used to meet the water demands, such as,...Author(s)Gary YocumJennifer McDanielMarty WanielistaSourceProceedings of the Water Environment FederationSubjectSession 75: Groundwater Recharge and StormwaterDocument typeConference PaperPublisherWater Environment FederationPrint publication date Jan, 2004ISSN1938-6478SICI1938-6478(20040101)2004:9L.230;1-DOI10.2175/193864704784132571Volume / Issue2004 / 9Content sourceWEFTECFirst / last page(s)230 - 258Copyright2004Word count222

Storm-Water Utility User Fee Credits

Urban storm-water utilities are an important funding method for storm-water programs. The rate structure is the basis on which the utility forms its fees and other secondary funding methods and rate modifiers. One rate modifier is the use of crediting mechanisms. Credits are often granted to provide incentives to implement or carry out an overall community storm-water management plan or to advance some other social or environmental objective. Bases for credits range from a classification of ratepayers, the class of property, location within the watershed or service area, certain activities that improve the system beyond normal expectations, certain ongoing activities on the property that reduce impact, and certain ongoing activities on the property reduce the city's cost of service. This paper explores the use of these different bases discussing the pros and cons for each, and details an approach that accounts for the expected impacts of development in terms of flow peak, flow volume and pollution discharge.

CHARGES FOR URBAN RUNOFF: ISSUES IN IMPLEMENTATION1

ABSTRACT: Maryland officials have identified stormwater utilities as a potential method of financing programs to control nutrients in urban stormwater runoff that are proposed in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Nutrient Reduction Plan. This paper reviews a number of issues related to the equity, efficiency and acceptability of user charge schemes. Overall, charges are found to be preferable to property taxes from both equity and efficiency perspectives. In addition, evidence suggests that elected officials will support creation of utilities. Obstacles to the implementation of utilities are identified.