Stormwater Program for Industrial Activity
What's New — June 2013
Did you have a sampling interval end in May 2013? The SWMR form is due to the MPCA no later than June 21, 2013, regardless of whether you were able to collect a sample.
Get ready for Year 4 Sampling Requirements. 76 percent of Permittees who have completed their “Year 2” of sampling requirements have “Year 4” sampling requirements. View your updated calendar and "Year 4" SWMRs through the Industrial Stormwater Permit Information Access tool.
Update: 2015 Permit Reissuance Developments
Many consultants and Permittees have asked: “What’s going to change with the next permit issuance?” Generally speaking, the permit will not change a lot. Some high-level suggested changes are listed below; we welcome your initial thoughts now and will be asking for formal comments during the public comment period.
2015 Permit Developments
- Streamline sampling requirements: All Permittees who apply during one cycle/calendar quarter will all start sampling at the same time during the following calendar quarter. For example, for applications that come in between April-June 2015, Permittees would start a year of sampling July 1, 2015. Actual timeline not yet decided.
- No Discharge Waiver/Certification: The MPCA is considering allowing a certification/waiver if a facility would not have an off-site discharge for a 100 year, 24-hour storm event , if certified by a professional engineer.
- Sampling Parameters: Review of monitoring of pollutant parameters, benchmark values.
- High Exceedances: Consider additional action levels for Permittees with “high” exceedances.
- No Exposure: Add additional “No Exposure” questions to the application.
Current Draft Timeline for 2015 Permit Reissuance
- April 2013: MPCA staff assigned to work on 2015 permit Reissuance
- Summer 2013: Consider permit language changes
- Summer/Fall 2013: Compare EPA’s newly issued MSGP to Minnesota’s MSGP
- December 2013-January 2014: Public Notice draft permit
- February-April 2014: Make changes to draft permit in response to public comments
- June 2014: Have permit approved
- July-September 2014: Permittees apply for coverage (MPCA must allow permittees to apply 180 days before the current permit’s expiration April 5, 2015)
- January or April 2015: Permit is reissued, effective
Program Updates
“Year 3” Permit Requirements: Done with “Year 2” sampling? For exceedances, check out “Step 12: Modify/add new BMPs” for what to do next. Note: There is no required "Year 3" benchmark sampling. You may collect samples to help you consider different BMPs and do not have to submit the results to the MPCA. They will not count for any "Year 2" or "Year 4" sampling averages.
Compliance Tools
New! Check out these Sampling Guidance Tools:
Requirements for benchmark monitoring (wq-strm3-35a) (January 2013)
"Year 2 is over, what's next?" PowerPoint presentation with voice-over narration: Year 2 Benchmarking Requirements (wq-strm3-65a) (October 2012)
Frequently Asked Questions About Sampling
Read the top 13 questions and answers about the sampling/results-submittal process: Year 2 Benchmarking Requirements (wq-strm3-35)
For more information and guidance materials on how to collect a stormwater sample, see Step 10: Sample/monitor your stormwater.
Permit Info Access
Industrial Stormwater Permit Information Access
Download your SWMR forms, view your monitoring calendar, or check the status of an application! No monitoring forms will be mailed to permittees except by request.
For more information on how to use the Industrial Stormwater Permit Information Access Tool, see Step 11: Evaluate and submit sampling results.
Training
Industrial Stormwater calendar of events
- June 26, 2013: The University of Minnesota is holding a Response to Benchmark Exceedance Workshop on June 26, 2013, from 10am-2:30pm in Mankato (MN Department of Transportation-Mankato, 2151 Bassett Drive, Mankato, MN 56001). See the workshop brochure for information and registration form.
Tentative future Industrial Stormwater Permit Workshops:
- August 14 2013- full day ISW2202 "everything" class (Metro)
- September 10 2013- half day ISW4201 "response to exceedances" class (Duluth)
- November 18 2013- half day ISW4201"response to exceedances" class (Metro)
- March 4 2014- full day ISW2202 "everything" class (Prior Lake - MECA)
- April 9 2014 - half day ISW5001 "Managing TSS exceedances" placeholder (Metro)
Contact the University of Minnesota if you are interested in attending a refresher workshop or a sampling/exceedance workshop.
Industrial Stormwater Steps to Compliance
Newsletters
Past Industrial Stormwater e-Newsletters
- March 2013 Newsletter Featured Article: 2012 Annual Report Due March 31, 2013, From the Compliance Program Desk: What’s New And What’s Coming Up, Your “Year 2” Of Sampling Requirements Is Over. Do You Know What To Do Next?, "Year 2" Data At A Glance, Industrial Stormwater Survey Results Part 2 of 3: Comments From No Exposure Facilities, Consider Safer Alternatives To Coal Tar-based Sealcoats.
- December 2012 Newsletter (Featured article: 2012 Annual Report goes electronic! "Year 2 is over: What's Next?" PowerPoint Presentation and other tools, Industrial Stormwater On-line Survey: Part 1 of 3, Statewide Environmental Congress Citizens Forums, Calendar of Events.
- September 2012 Newsletter (Featured Article: Year 2 monitoring requirements are over. What's next? New University of Minnesota Industrial Stormwater Workshop, 2015 Permit Issuance, Industrial Stormwater Permit Information Access Updates, Better Maintenance of Paved Surfaces, Goodbye to Kristin Kirchoff)
- June 2012 Newsletter (Featured Article: Training, presentations and workshops, past and present, Yearly requirements for Industrial Stormwater, Phenomenal outreach, Need to modify your Industrial Stormwater Permit?, Words from the Industrial Stormwater engineer, Updated "Steps to Compliance" section of website, Welcome new Industrial Stormwater inspector!)
Report an environmental concern
Report a facility with compliance problems by using the online Citizen Complaint form.
Contact
Program Contact Information
- Email: Send an e-mail to the Industrial Stormwater Program: iswprogram.pca@state.mn.us
- Call the Stormwater Hotline: 651-757-2119 or 800-657-3804 (non-metro only) for questions related to Industrial, Construction and Municipal Stormwater.
- Application questions/status: 651-757-2118
- Engineering questions: Todd Smith, 651-757-2732
- Fees Contact: fees.pca@state.mn.us
- Contact an Inspector:
- David Bodovinitz, 507- 206-2654, Southern Minnesota: Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Jackson, Lac Qui Parle, Le Sueur, Lincoln, Lyon, Martin, Mower, Murray, Nobles, Olmsted, Pipestone, Redwood, Rice, Rock, Steele, Wabasha, Waseca, Watonwan, Winona and Yellow Medicine counties.
- Melissa Wenzel, 651-757-2816, Metro and surrounding counties: Anoka, Benton, Carver , Chisago, Hennepin, Isanti, McLeod, Nicollet, Ramsey, Scott, Sherburne, Sibley, Stearns, Washington, and Wright counties.
- Mary West, 651-757-2818, Northern Minnesota: Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Big Stone, Carlton, Cass, Chippewa, Clay, Clearwater, Cook, Crow Wing, Douglas, Grant, Hubbard, Itasca, Kanabec, Kandiyohi, Kittson, Koochiching, Lake, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Marshall, Meeker, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Norman, Otter Tail, Pennington, Pine, Polk, Pope, Red Lake, Renville, Roseau, Saint Louis, Stevens, Swift, Todd, Traverse, Wadena and Wilkin counties.
- David Bodovinitz, 507- 206-2654, Southern Minnesota: Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Jackson, Lac Qui Parle, Le Sueur, Lincoln, Lyon, Martin, Mower, Murray, Nobles, Olmsted, Pipestone, Redwood, Rice, Rock, Steele, Wabasha, Waseca, Watonwan, Winona and Yellow Medicine counties.
About
About the Industrial Stormwater Program
The Industrial Stormwater Program's goal is to reduce the amount of pollution that enters surface and ground water from industrial facilities in the form of stormwater runoff. This goal is accomplished by requiring permitted facilities to:
- Develop an effective Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) which contains your Stormwater Control Measures, described as Best Management Practices (BMPs).
- Manage stormwater runoff by meeting the permit requirements or certify condition of No Exposure.
- Read and comply with the Industrial Stormwater Multi-Sector General Permit (wq-strm3-08) .
Any season of the year, enjoy Minnesota’s waters that we all work so hard to protect!
