Minimum Control Measures

The Six Minimum Control Measures form the core of the Stormwater Management Program (SWMP). The following is a brief overview of the MCMs.

  • Develop a public education and outreach program
  • Know who the target audience is
  • Publish educational material
    • newsletter, pamphlet, flyer, website
  • Distribute educational material
    • displays, posters, signs, pamphlets, booklets, brochures, radio, local cable TV, newspaper articles, bill stuffers, presentations, conferences, meetings, fact sheets, giveaways, storm drain stenciling
  • Develop a public involvement and participation program
  • Advertise to the public and solicit public input on certain documents:
    • Stormwater management ordinances
    • Standard operating procedures
    • Pollutant reduction plans
  • Regularly solicit public involvement and participation
  • Develop written program for detection, elimination, and prevention of illicit discharges
  • Develop and maintain detailed maps
  • Conduct dry weather screening of MS4 outfalls
  • Enforce a stormwater management program that prohibits non-stormwater discharges
  • Provide educational outreach about the program to detect and eliminate illicit discharges
  • Enact, implement, and enforce the implementation and maintenance of erosion and sediment control best management practices (BMPs)
  • Enact, implement, and enforce post-construction stormwater management from new development and redevelopment projects
  • Encourage and expand the use of low impact development
  • Ensure adequate O&M of all post-construction stormwater management BMPs at development or redevelopment projects
  • Identify and document all operations that are owned by the permittee and have potential for polluting stormwater runoff
  • Develop, implement, and maintain an O&M program that stresses pollution prevention and good housekeeping
  • Develop and implement an employee training program to further the goal of preventing or reducing discharge of pollutants from operations to the MS4