HomeMy WebLinkAboutNCS000435_Asheville 2021 Anual Self Assessment_20210830City of Asheville
Jc Works Department
P.O. Box 7148
Asheville, NC 29802
www oshevillene.gov
Aug 305 2021
DEQ-DEMLR Stormwater Program
Attn: Jeanette Powell
1612 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1612
RE: City of Asheville Annual Self Assessment Permit FY 1
Permit No. NCS0000435
Dear Ms. Powell;
Please find attached the City of Asheville Annual Self Assessment Report for Permit FY 1. I certify,
under penalty of law, that this document and all attachments were prepared under my direction or
supervision in accordance with a system designed to assure that qualified personnel properly gather and
evaluate the information submitted. Based on my inquiry of the person or persons who manage the
system, or those persons directly responsible for gathering the information, the information submitted is,
to the best of my knowledge and belief, true, accurate, and complete. I am aware that there are
significant penalties for submitting false information, including the possibility of fines and
imprisonment for knowing violations.
Should you have any questions, please contact me at (828) 271-6146 or �shu�er �,ash�villcnc. Gov
Sincerely,
Greg Shuler
Public Works Director
Attachment
Line No.
Permit
Fiscal Year
BMP
Ref.Measurable Goal Reporting Metric Comments
1 1 3.B.1.Did Asheville develop and distribute a stormwater flier in combined utility bill statements?Yes Educational Flier
2 1 3.B.1.If so, was general stormwater awareness covered in the distributed fliers?Yes
3 1 3.B.1.If so, how many utility bill insert fliers were distributed?50,000
16 1 4.B.1.
Did Asheville display general stormwater awareness fliers at locations throughout the City?
Yes
17 1 4.B.1.If so, how many fliers were distributed (total)?350
26 1 5 Did Asheville train/provide an NPDES training flier to new employees during orientation? No Due to COVID in‐person
employee orientation was
not held. The employee
orientation process has
been changing during this
time. We are currently
working with our HR
Department to define a
new process so training can
continue.
27 1 5 If so, how many staff were trained? 0 Due to COVID in‐person
employee orientation was
not held. The employee
orientation process has
been changing during this
time. We are currently
working with our HR
Department to define a
new process so training can
continue.
38 1 6 Did Asheville provide general stormwater awareness fliers at public events? No Due to COVID in‐person
public events were not
held.
39 1 6 If so, how many fliers were distributed? 0 Due to COVID and no in‐
person public events being
held there were no fliers
distributed at public events.
50 1 7.B.1
Did Asheville develop and distribute stormwater fliers on stormwater pollutants, illicit discharges
and illegal dumping to restaurants and grocery stores?Yes
Restaurants and Food
Services Facilities
51 1 7.B.1 If so, how many fliers were distributed?500
60 1 8
Did Asheville attend local events for school aged children to discuss the impacts of stormwater
discharges?Yes
61 1 8 If so, how many events were attended? 8 1/5/21; 1/7/21; 3/20/21;
4/16/21; 4/27/21; 5/5/21/
6/14/21 & 6/21/21
62 1 8 If so, how many participants were reached? 755 COVID greatly impacted this
number, some events were
canceled.
78 1 9 Did Asheville post stormwater information/topics on social media?Yes
79 1 9 If so, how many posts were made? 17 This is the number of
Facebook post. It does not
include Twitter and
Instagram. We are working
with IT to develop a better
tracking system for posts.
80 1 9 If so, how many views were there?Does not currently show
the number of views. We
are working with IT to
develop this or an
alternative.
96 1 10.B.1 Did Asheville maintan the stormwater web page?Yes Stormwater Web Page
97 1 10.B.1 If so, how many web page views were there?7,013
108 1 10.B.2 Did Asheville add a link to the DEQ stormwater web page on the city's stormwater web page?Yes DEQ Link
119 1 10.B.4 Did Asheville add one educational component to the city's stormwater web page that addresses a
target pollutant/audience?
Yes Added General &
Restaurant brochures under
What You Can Do on our
website.
125 1 11 Did Asheville maintain the hotline/helpline?Yes
126 1 11 If so, was the hotline/helpline publicized on the city's web page?Yes Stormwater Web Page
127 1 11 If so, was the hotline/helpline publicized in the city's educational fliers?Yes Educational Flier
128 1 11 If so, how many hotline/helpline inquiries were there?0
149 1 12.B.1 Did Asheville develop/review guidelines and procedures for board/commission to include
stormwater in agendas?
Partial Working with City
Manager's Office to
complete this within FY 1 ‐
3 as per permit.
160 1 14 Did Asheville maintain the Asheville App or related tool for citizens to provide information on
stormwater issues?Yes
161 1 14 If so, how many stormwater issues were reported?156
162 1 14 If so, how many stormwater issues were addressed? 149 7 issues reported were not
stormwater related.
178 1 15 Did Asheville hold community meeting(s) to gain input/feedback on capital improvement projects? Yes Due to COVID most of these
were held via City's Virtual
Engagement Hub. Flyers
were also handed out door
to door to increase
awareness in the
neighborhood for one of
the projects.
179 1 15 If so, how many attendees were present? 469 views on the
City's Virtual
Engagement Hub
for CIP, 2
comments
received and
three in‐person
attendees.
190 1 17 Did Asheville coordinate litter pick‐up through Adopt‐A‐Street? Yes The City is still coordinating
litter pick‐up with
GreenWorks. However, the
partnership with
GreenWorks has become
more of a general litter pick‐
up on all city roadways, not
just the ones through the
Adopt‐A‐Street program.
191 1 17 If so, how many street miles were adopted? 16.6 This is the number of total
miles of roadways cleaned.
There were 33 Adopt‐A‐
Street roads cleaned and 41
roadside clean‐ups
performed in coordination
with GreenWorks for a total
of 16.6 recorded miles.
202 1 18 Did Asheville coordinate volunteer storm drain stenciling? Yes We provided the storm
drain stenciling and River
Link coordinated the
volunteers through the
Adopt‐A‐Storm Drain
Program.
203 1 18 If so, how many volunteers participated? 6 COA has partnered with
RiverLink for a new pilot
Adopt‐A‐Storm Drain
Program. This pilot
program pairs volunteers
with a storm drain in the
Central Asheville
Watershed. The goal is to
get 100 storm drains
adopted in 2021. To date
approximately 80 drains
have been adopted with
around 35 volunteers
adopting the drains. Only 6
of the drains have been
stenciled as of the date of
this report.
214 1 19.B.1 Did Asheville develop a four year plan to achieve 100% mapping of the MS4 inventory? Partial Working with Asset
Management/GIS to
complete this within FY 1 ‐
2 as per permit. A GIS app
was developed for our
camera crew to use to
preliminarily map
stormwater infrastructure
that is not already included
in GIS or is not located
correctly in GIS. The data is
being entered into an
intermediate GIS layer,
where it will be QA/QC'd
and subsequently entered
into the main GIS database.
228 1 20
Did Asheville maintain a process for collecting CIP as‐built data of stormwater infrastructure and
incorporte into GIS database?Yes
229 1 20 If so, how many CIP projects were incorporated into the MS4 mapping? 0 GIS staff received one as‐
built for capital projects,
and have reported the
deficiencies in the drawing
and awaiting a revised
version for another project.
Stormwater CIP did not
have any projects complete
construction within FY1.
The as‐built data have not
been incorporated into our
MS4 mapping yet.
240 1 21 Did Asheville maintain a process for collecting infrastructure data using pipe cameras and
incorporate data into the GIS database?
Yes A GIS app was developed
for our camera crew to use
to preliminarily map
stormwater infrastructure
that is not already included
in GIS or is not located
correctly in GIS. The data is
being entered into an
intermediate GIS layer,
where it will be QA/QC'd
and subsequently entered
into the main GIS database.
246 1 22 Did Asheville maintain a process for collecting private development as‐built data and incorporating
it into the GIS database?
Yes Per the COA Standard
Specifications manual
through Development
Services.
247 1 22 If so, how many project as‐builts were incorporated into the MS4 mapping? 0 21 private development as‐
builts have been approved
by Development Services
Dept., which are pending
entry into the GIS database
once PW GIS staff review.
248 1 22 If so, how many outfalls were added? 0 Private developmnet as‐
builts are pending entry
into the GIS database to
determine the number of
new outfalls added to our
system.
264 1 23 Did Asheville maintain an IDDE ordinance and administration and enforcement of it?Yes
270 1 24.B.1 Did Asheville develop procedures/guidelines for administration and enforcement of the IDDE
ordinance?
No Working on
procedures/guidelines to
complete this within FY 1 ‐
3 as per permit. We have
requested a new position in
the Stormwater Division to
support this effort.
285 1 25.B.1 Did Asheville develop an IDDE Plan? No Working on IDDE Plan to
complete this within FY 1 ‐2
as per permit. We have
requested a new position in
the Stormwater Division to
support this effort.
300 1 26.B.1 Did Asheville develop written procedures for dry weather flow field screening activities? No Working on dry weather
flow to complete this within
FY 1 ‐2 as per permit. We
have requested a new
position in the Stormwater
Division to support this
effort.
317 1 27.B.1 Did Asheville develop written procedures for conducting illicit discharge investigations? No Working on written
procedures to complete this
within FY 1 ‐2 as per permit.
We have requested a new
position in the Stormwater
Division to support this
effort.
335 1 28 Did Asheville maintain the IDDE complaint spreadsheet?Yes
336 1 28 If so, how many complaints were received?17
337 1 28 If so, how many complaints were verified as illicit discharges, connections or dumping?12
338 1 28 If so, how many verified complaints were resolved? 11 One of the complaints was
resolved in August.
369 1 31
Did Asheville maintain an after hours on‐call duty officer to investigate illicit discharges and illegal
dumping?Yes
370 1 31 If so, how many investigations were performed?1
381 1 33
Did Asheville maintain and publicize an email address for the public to report erosion and
sedimentation problems?Yes
382 1 33 If so, how many emails reports were received?16
393 1 35
Did Asheville maintain an after hours on‐call duty officer to investigate after hours erosion and
sedimentation problems?Yes
394 1 35 If so, how many investigations were performed after hours?2
405 1 36
Did Asheville provide staff training on proper handling of construction site runoff control
complaints?Yes
406 1 36 If so, how many staff were trained?5
423 1 38 Did Asheville conduct pre‐construction conferences?Yes
424 1 38 If so, how many pre‐construction conferences were conducted?20
447 1 40.B.1. Did Asheville track the number of low‐density and high‐density plan reviews performed? Yes COA does not specify as low‐
density and high density
per state defininition. Our
ordinance exempts
developments from
stormwater quantity and
quality control if a new
development is less than
50% impervious of the site
and under an acre of
disturbance, and in a
redevelopment if post
development impervious is
less than pre development
condition.
448 1 40.B.1. If so, how many low density project reviews were performed? 1,203 Reporting numbers are
based on project reviews
that did not require
stormwater controls.
449 1 40.B.1. If so, how many high density project reviews were performed? 364 Reporting numbers are
based on project reviews
that required stormwater
controls.
450 1 40.B.2 If so, how many low density project reviews were approved?474
451 1 40.B.2 If so, how many high density project reviews were approved?18
477 1 40.B.3.
Did Asheville maintain a current inventory of low‐density projects and constructed SCMs, including
SCM type or low‐density acreage, location, last inspection date and type of enforcement action (if
any)?Yes
483 1 40.B.4 How many SCM inspections were performed?22
489 1 40.B.5 How many low‐density inspections were performed? 184 Reporting numbers are
based on inspections that
did not require stormwater
control measures.
495 1 40.B.6 How many post‐construction enforcement actions were issued?0
501 1 41.B.1 Did Asheville develop a written O&M Plan for municipal facilities? No Working on O&M Plan to
complete this within FY 1 ‐2
as per permit.
514 1 42.B.1 Did Asheville evaluate all municipal facilities/properties to determine pollution potential? Partial Established a draft
inventory of all muicipal
facilities/properties.
515 1 42.B.1 If so,how many facility evaluations were performed?3
516 1 42.B.1 If so, how many facilities have stormwater pollution potential?3
548 1 46.B.1 Did Asheville maintain written spill response procedures in the municipal facility SPPPs? Yes COA is in the process of
reviewing and updating
SPPPs.
576 1 48.B.3 Did Asheville verify, document and prioritize mainenance activities identified by inspections and/or
citizen reports?
Yes We verify, document, and
prioritize maintenance
activities by creating work
orders using the Cityworks
program.
577 1 48.B.3 If so, how many activities were prioritized? 1,162 This is the work order
count.
588 1 49.B.1 Did Asheville create/maintain an inventory of municipal SCMs including type and description?Yes
589 1 49.B.2 If so, how many municipal SCMs are in the inventory?22
609 1 51 Did Asheville verify that Parks & Recereation staff maintained appropriate applicator licenses?Yes
610 1 51 If so, how many staff hold valid licenses?5
666 1 55.B.1 Did Asheville maintain an inventory of public trash receptacles?Yes
672 1 55.B.2 Did Asheville collect and properly dispose of waste from public trash receptacles weekly?Yes
673 1 55.B.2 If so, what is the total annual estimated amount of trash collected/disposed of (pounds)? Trash 300,000
pounds; Recyle
100,000 pounds;
3/26 Litter pick‐
up event 3,950
lbs; 5/21 Litter
pick‐up event
5,340 lbs.
The PW Department
Sanitation Division held 2
roadway litter clean‐up
events on 3/26 and 5/21.
24 roads (16.5 miles) were
cleaned for the first event
and 47 roads (52 miles)
were cleaned for the
second event.
684 1 56.B.1 Did Asheville establish and publicize protocols for residential brush and bagged leaf collections?Yes Brush & Leaf Collection
690 1 56.B.2 Did Asheville collect brush and bagged leaves per the established schedule?Yes
691 1 56.B.2 If so, what is the toal annual amount of brush and leaves collected/disposed of (pounds)? 5,000,000 pounds