NCS000484_Salisbury 2019 Annual Report_20191031

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City of Salisbury
NPDES 2019 Annual Report October 31, 2019

Permit Number: NCS000484 Report Number: NCS000484
County: Rowan Region: Mooresville

Abbreviated Annual Report for 2019

Audit Date: October 14th, 2019

Official Notice: No official noticed received to yet

Summary of Preliminary Findings presented at the audit closing conference:

A summary of the audit was verbally presented to the City of Salisbury
stormwater staff. In addition to program administration and implementation, the
minimum measures that were audited were Public Education, Public Participation, Post
Construction Runoff, and Pollution Prevention and Good Housekeeping.

It was noted that the Public Education measure was doing extremely well. The
number of people educated and variety of the education efforts were noted as great. It
was also noted that the varying of target audiences was great based off the makeup of the
MS4. It was noted that the City of Salisbury is doing a good job of tracking target
audiences and target pollutants educated. The overall feedback received of the Public
Education Program was that is successful in how it is operating.

The second measure audited was the Public Participation measure. It was noted
how rare it was to have a waiting list of citizens who want to participate in stormwater
related efforts. It was noted that the advertising for public participation is being regularly
listed on the city website. It was also noted that the other participation events like water
awareness day, Rowan Creek Week, and other events was being advertised on social
media and non-traditional outlets. The overall feedback received of the Public
Participation measure was that the program is extremely successful in its efforts.

The third measure audited was the Post Construction Runoff. It was noted that the
City of Salisbury only owns and maintains one post construction SCM. It was noted the
efficiency of having the tracking s ystem and smart sheet that the City owns and maintains
to track SCM within the MS4. The overall feedback received of the Post Construction
Runoff measure was that the program was successful and is meeting needed
requirements.

The fourth and final measure audited was the Pollution Prevention and Good
Housekeeping. It was noted that the program was successful with only two minor needs
to be addressed. It was noted that the City needed to establish as checklist that will be
filled out and retained upon a quarterly inspection of each municipally owned facility. It

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was also noted that the City needed to have each facility that is required under EPA
guidelines to fill out a SPCC form. The overall feedback received of the Pollution
Prevention and Good Housekeeping program was that it was successful with 2 minor
actions needing to be taken.

Intent:

The City of Salisbury has already corrected the two minor actions that were found
that needed to be implemented. We have established a checklist that will be used for
quarterly inspections for each municipally owned facility. These checklists will be filed
with the Stormwater Division and manager of the respected facility. This procedure has
been added into our SWMP so that it can be implemented on a quarterly basis. The
process for reporting that this action is being implemented is a “yes or no” that will be
reported on the MS4 annual report.
The second action that needed to be implemented has already been implemented
as well. We have found that 4 municipally owned facilities meets or exceeds the EPA
threshold for a needing a required SPCC form to be filled out and on file. We have made
all 4 of our facilities fill out the required SPCC form and they will be on file with both
the facility manager and Stormwater. The implementation and annual review of this
procedure has been added into our SWMP and it will be included on all future annual
reports.
Our permit was renewed in 2016 but a SWMP was never written or adopted. We
were able to share with the auditors the draft SWMP that we wrote and it has been
submitted with the revisions that were needed for review.

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Below is an organizational chart
of offices with responsibilities related
to NPDES:

Citizens ofSalisburyCity CouncilMayorCity AttorneyCity ClerkParks andRecreationUtilitiesEngineeringPublic ServicesRisk ManagementEmployee TrainingG.I.S.Outfall MappingInspections forCross ConnectionsPesticide /FertilizationMaintenanceStormwaterServices DivisionStorm WaterPollution HotlinePublicParticipation andEducationErosion ControlCoordinationFacility NPDESPermitFleet MaintenanceStreet DivisionNCG08 PermitCommunityPlanning ServicesCodeServicesField Observationsand Notice ofViolationsPrivateDevelopmentReviewFloodplainAdministrationPost ConstructionBMP ComplianceSanitationRecyclingInformationTechnologyStormwater DataLayer MaintenanceLeaf CollectionStormdrainMaintenanceStreet SweepingStormwaterAdministrationPermitComplianceCapitalImprovementProjects toStormwaterSystem

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