Storm Water Fee
1.Introduction
Stormwater is water that originates during precipitation events and snow/ice melt, if it hasn’t infiltrated into soil, then runoff happens, which could lead to urban waterlogging and waste of water resource. Since humans began living in concentrated village or urban settings, stormwater runoff has been an issue. During thousands of years, humankind didn’t really take action to deal with storm water, but within the high speed urbanization during modern time, impervious surface-especially in urban area-has increased dramatically, which made storm water management a problem that can’t be ignored anymore.
In 1972, Clean Water Act started to take effect, and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System is authorized by EPA in the same year. Cities had been requested to put effort in stormwater management. After that, a lot of US cities started to charge stormwater utility fee, in order to build and maintain stormwater management facilities, thereby to help solving a series of problems that stormwater can …show more content…
San Antonio is a big city located in Texas, annual precipitation is 32.4in, maximum daily precipitation is 4.31in. It started to charge stormwater fee in 1993, which was a response to Water Quality Act 1987. Storm water fee funds a series of services includes street sweeping, channel mowing/restoration, drainage infrastructure maintenance, natural creekway debris removal. In 2017, the fee schedule is divided into two parts, residential and non-residential area, owners of residential area only need to pay a monthly fee based on how big their impervious surface is, from 3.45 to 9.41 dollars per month, but owners of non-residential area will pay much more, they need to pay a base fee which is 61.92 no matter how big their impervious surface is, and a monthly impervious fee which is based on the percent of impervious surface, bigger the number is, more they have to pay for per 1000 square
1.Introduction
Stormwater is water that originates during precipitation events and snow/ice melt, if it hasn’t infiltrated into soil, then runoff happens, which could lead to urban waterlogging and waste of water resource. Since humans began living in concentrated village or urban settings, stormwater runoff has been an issue. During thousands of years, humankind didn’t really take action to deal with storm water, but within the high speed urbanization during modern time, impervious surface-especially in urban area-has increased dramatically, which made storm water management a problem that can’t be ignored anymore.
In 1972, Clean Water Act started to take effect, and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System is authorized by EPA in the same year. Cities had been requested to put effort in stormwater management. After that, a lot of US cities started to charge stormwater utility fee, in order to build and maintain stormwater management facilities, thereby to help solving a series of problems that stormwater can …show more content…
San Antonio is a big city located in Texas, annual precipitation is 32.4in, maximum daily precipitation is 4.31in. It started to charge stormwater fee in 1993, which was a response to Water Quality Act 1987. Storm water fee funds a series of services includes street sweeping, channel mowing/restoration, drainage infrastructure maintenance, natural creekway debris removal. In 2017, the fee schedule is divided into two parts, residential and non-residential area, owners of residential area only need to pay a monthly fee based on how big their impervious surface is, from 3.45 to 9.41 dollars per month, but owners of non-residential area will pay much more, they need to pay a base fee which is 61.92 no matter how big their impervious surface is, and a monthly impervious fee which is based on the percent of impervious surface, bigger the number is, more they have to pay for per 1000 square