How To Be A Strategic Ally To Your MS4s – Part 2: Permit Requirement Programs

Date: July 23, 2024 | 2:00 PM EST/1:00 PM CST
Speaker: Scott Minor and Kelly Brown
Credits: 0.1 CEU / 1.0 PDH

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If you are familiar with the term MS4 (Municipal Separate Storm Sewers), then this webinar is for you! We will take a look at stormwater regulations for MS4s and showcase how you can provide valuable services and outputs that help insure a sincere and lasting relationship with your city partners. We will showcase three programs that are in service with eleven municipalities in central Indiana under the guidance of our regional watershed alliance. Programs include public outreach and education, technical trainings and certifications, and strategic professional-level water monitoring. These programs are helping meet state and federal permit requirements (MCMs 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), as well as unifying messages and training/certification opportunities across communities. Target audiences for our programs include developers, builders, contractors, homeowner associations, landscape maintenance companies, utilities, municipal leadership, and the general public. These programs ensure that our Alliance is routinely engaged in municipal stormwater, development, and landscape-planning initiatives. The program models (and in some cases the actual program materials) are transferable to any MS4 community.

Join us to learn how to develop programs that raise your organization’s reputation and make you an invaluable resource to your city! This is Part 2 of a 2-part webinar on White River Alliance programs dedicated to meeting MS4 permit requirements.   

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Explain how to meet stormwater permits requirement for Minimum Control Measures (MCM) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
• How to build partnerships and leverage funding sources across multiple MS4s in a region
• Develop online technical trainings and certifications programs
• Use water monitoring program for outreach and education
• Discuss who to use volunteer citizen scientist to collect professional level water quality data

About the Presenters

Scott Minor, Senior Project Manager, White River Alliance

Scott is a Senior Project Manager with the White River Alliance. He has a Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture from Ball State University. In addition to working closely with regulated stormwater communities and developing educational content for the award-winning Clear Choices Clean Water program, Scott also produces The Collective Tap podcast. 

Kelly Brown, Senior Environmental Coordinator, White River Alliance

Kelly Brown is the White River Alliance’s Senior Environmental Coordinator where she manages the River Assessment Field Team Program and coordinates the development and implementation of the White River Report Card. She has her Masters from Indiana University’s School of Public Environmental Affairs in Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Management and Applied Ecology. Kelly has 11 years of experience working with civic, private, and non-profit organizations to provide program evaluation, ecological and water quality sampling, project management, and community engagement.