Climate Resilience Toolkit

Implement a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan

What Is It?

A stormwater pollution prevention plan (SWPPP) outlines best management practices to treat, store, and filtrate water runoff onsite before it can affect water bodies downstream. These practices can include large-scale innovative site designs that reduce imperviousness and/or smaller-scale low-impact development practices dispersed throughout a site.

Benefits

SWPPP’s mitigate the negative impacts of stormwater from impervious surfaces. This helps improve local and regional water quality by reducing pollution to lakes, rivers, streams, and coastal areas.

NEWS

• "Tallying the costs of stormwater pollution," GreenBiz, June 3, 2015

RESOURCES

• MassDEP: Stormwater Policies and Guidance
• EPA: Community Solutions for Voluntary Long-Term Stormwater Planning
• University of New Hampshire Stormwater Center
• EPA: EPA Facility Stormwater Management