Annual Report Under MS4 General Permit No. WI-S050075-1
Supplemental Data
Section IV
a. Public Education and Outreach
UW-001: Partnership with City
The campus has partnered with the City of Whitewater and with other municipalities in the Rock River
basin in forming the Rock River Storm Water Group with the objective of meeting the educational
requirements of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources MS4 permit requirements and to
promote sustainable practices in the Rock River basin.
In addition, the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater and the city are working together and will
voluntarily partner together wherever and whenever possible.
UW-002: Storm Water Management Plan
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Storm Water Management Plan was completed in August 2006,
by Norris and Associates, Inc of Milwaukee, WI. A public meeting was held on October 26, 2006 at which
this plan was presented. This plan serves as the guide for the university in compliance with stormwater
regulations.
Additionally a Stormwater Quality Management Plan was also completed for the university by Strand
Associates of Madison WI on December 3, 2008, in conjunction with a Stormwater Quality Management
Plan that Strand completed for the City of Whitewater. The campus is currently reviewing this plan.
This storm water management plan is being maintained and updated as required to reflect significant
progress and/or change in regulations. It is being used as a guide in managing storm water issues, new
construction, etc. on campus.
UW-003: Storm Water Management Mass Communication Program
The campus has partnered with the City of Whitewater as well as other municipalities in the Rock River
basin in forming the Rock River Stormwater Group in December 2008 for the purpose of coordinating
efforts in public education and public outreach on storm water issues.
The campus is also developing and implementing multiple channels of communicating storm water
management goals and information to the campus community. This comprehensive mass communication
program includes the following:
1) The campus has distributed storm water management educational and informational brochures to
students, faculty, and staff, as well as campus visitors. (Appendix B)
2) The campus is posting pertinent storm water management goals, guidelines, information on the
campus website.
3) The campus will periodically send campus-wide email with pertinent storm water management goals,
guidelines, information, and external links.
4) Periodically broadcast public service announcements relative to storm water management goals and
guidelines through campus media outlets.
5) Develops and posts informational and educational storm water management podcasts/videocasts to
the campus web site.
Materials include and highlight current practices for some or all of the following management areas:
fuel/oil/coal, lawn/turf, debris/leaf, salt/deicer, fertilizer, pesticide, and hazardous material. Materials will
also include formal communication protocol and contact information relative to campus storm water
management and illicit discharge detection and prevention.
UW-004: Earth Day Events
The campus incorporated educational and informational storm water management displays and/or
presentations during its annual Earth Day activities in 2008 and will continue these activities in 2009.
(Appendix B)
Annual Earth Day activities are advertised on campus through the campus newspaper, campus-wide
email, web site postings, and flyers/posters placed around campus. Typical Earth Day activities include
debris/trash cleanup across campus, and numerous instructional presentations, displays, and handouts.
Dr. Brian Davis, Senior Design Engineer, with Jacques Whitford NAWE, a world leader in engineered
wetland technologies will make a presentation on Earth Day, April 22, 2009. He recently returned from a
project in Azerbaijan, where his company is employing engineered wetland design principles to determine
the feasibility of treating water from offshore oil wells in the Caspian Sea.
b. UW-001: Partnership with City
The Campus and the City have developed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to detail their mutual
responsibilities and have developed a close working relationship with respect to compliance.
UW-002: Storm Water Management Plan
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater partnered with the City and with Stand Associates of Madison
Wisconsin in developing Storm Water Management Plans. Strand completed the Storm Water
Management Plan for the City in June 2008 and for the Campus in December 2008. A previous Storm
Water Management Plan was completed for the Campus by Norris and Associates, Inc of Milwaukee
Wisconsin in August 2006 and a public meeting was held on October 26, 2006 at which that plan was
presented.
This storm water management plan is being maintained and updated as required to reflect significant
progress and/or change in regulations.
The storm water management plan is being used to coordinate the preservation of sufficient amount of
the best space on campus for storm water management. Storm water management is being incorporated
and coordinated on campus with all current and future site development. Storm water management
efforts are being scheduled to comply with the compliance deadlines. This plan serves as a resource guide
and application/implementation reference for future storm water management BMPs.
The storm water management plan includes details on the following topic areas:
1) Various campus maps
a) geography
b) land use
c) soils
d) floodplain/wetland designations
e) drainage basins (regional and local)
f) storm water utility system
2) Various management and control policies
a) lawn/turf management
b) debris/leaf management
c) fertilizer management
d) pesticide management
e) hazardous materials management
f) fuel/oil/coal management
g) spill prevention control & countermeasure plan
h) batch discharges
i) deicer/salt management
j) street sweeping
k) fleet maintenance & management
l) nutrient management
m) manure management
3) anticipated and proposed campus development
4) anticipated and proposed campus acquisitions
5) anticipated and proposed storm water management efforts
UW-003: Storm Water Management Mass Communication Program
The campus has partnered with several communities in the Rock River Basin as mentioned above in
fulfilling the public outreach and education pertoion of the storm water regulations. The Rock River Storm
Water Group is currently hiring a Stormwater Outreach and Public Education Coordinator to assist in this
effort.
In addition the campus has distributed numerous educational materials on campus and partnered in
sponsoring a Stormwater Best Management Practices Workshop to be held in Watertown WI on April 21,
2009 and the following day in Milton WI, as mentioned above.