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Special Council Meeting 3-3-03 Page 2 just discharge stormwater into a creek or river in the State of Ohio. So we'll be like everybody that would have to have a permit for sanitary water, we have to do that for stormwater. There are 6 minimum control measures: public education and outreach, public involvement and participation, illicit discharge detection and elimination, construction site stormwater runoff control, post construction stormwater management and pollution prevention and good housekeeping for municipal operations. And we will make the plan available to anybody that would like a copy of it. You'll find these tables that we used to kind of narrow things down. The public participation and education-90% of what we are going to do is going to be passing out leaflets and brochures to the public-either through VOV articles or at our Pancake Breakfast or things of that nature which will provide literature. The literature will be provided to us from either the Euclid Creek Watershed that we are a member of or the Chagrin River Watershed. Basically most of these areas will be covered in those, we'll have workshops for people with home septic systems to make sure that they understand how to make their septic systems work as well as possible and other activities of that nature. We'll also have-workshops will be set up-typically those will be done by the Euclid Creek Watershed and even though only a small part of our drainage goes into Euclid Creek and next to none of the workshops will affect it, like they'll have a clean-up day for Euclid Creek, we will get credit for that because we are part of that group. So that will help us to cover our requirements under this plan. A list of areas that we might see: septic tank operations, erosion and sediment control, management for back yard streams, how to maintain your green lawns and several other items. That covers the first 2 of the 6-the public education and the public involvement. The illicit discharge detection will basically consist of someone from the Service Department with the help of the Health Department going out and checking outfall, looking for illicit discharges which would typically be a sanitary sewer that's hooked up to a storm drain, or a house connection of septic systems that are hooked up to our storm drain. You go out during dry weather when there really should be no storm water in ditches, if we find significant amount of water, then we have to go back and trace and find out where it came from and then have that tested if we believe that there is something that shouldn't be happening there. So most of this will be covered by, again, Service Department and the Health Department. Mr. Metzung continued showing Table 3: Table 3, covers our construction site stormwater runoff. This, really, is not much different than what we currently use it as. We require 99% of these items already under our current ordinances, nothing much will change in this, and this plan and in the plan for the post-construction management, Mayfield Village was in very good shape when we got to those areas. Post-construction will be how we retain or detain water coming off a new development. We already at this time require that retention or detention is made from new parking lots and other pervious surfaces or impervious surfaces, this new plan will ask us to look at different ways of doing that and so we may have a different set-a new way of doing things such as providing any overflow parking maybe it's made with some kind of grass or stone or pervious surface or we may have wet ponds as opposed to dry ponds, wetlands as opposed to just large detention areas. Mr. Metzung said the last area is the pollution prevention and good housekeeping plan [referencing table 5.] Again, this is an area that Mayfield Village is in fairly good shape with. We do provide household hazardous waste. We do have our salt under cover, many of the items that are listed in this we've already taken care of. Things such as street sweeping and catch basin