A Step-by-step Guide on How CVC Can Help Lower Your Municipal Stormwater Charge
When you take action to manage stormwater sustainably on your property, you protect your assets and community by reducing pressure on municipal drainage systems, which helps mitigate flooding. You may also be eligible to lower your municipal stormwater charge and CVC can help. Here’s how:
Step 1: Site Assessment
We will meet with you and your property management team and conduct a technical site assessment of the property to identify your current stormwater drainage patterns, flood-prone areas and locate and assess the age and condition of infrastructure.
Step 2: Develop a Site Plan
Using existing building plans and findings from our site assessment, we’ll create an infrastructure and utilities plan that shows catch basins, manholes, pipes and connections to municipal systems. Where missing, we can fill in gaps in the data to verify existing system locations and condition. We’ll then develop feasible, site-specific conceptual designs and include an estimate of the capital investment, operations and long-term maintenance costs for each sustainable stormwater retrofit project using the STEP Life Cycle Costing Tool.
Examples of sustainable stormwater retrofits include permeable parking lots, bioswales, subsurface chambers and infiltration galleries.
Step 3: Co-create the Project Plan and Get Started
After the assessments and site plan are complete, we’ll provide a free sustainable landscaping action plan that includes the drainage plan, possible sustainable stormwater management retrofits and a feature opportunity, such as a rain garden or bioswale, to help your team visualize a project that will work best for your property and bottom line. Connect with us to get started.
