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Stormwater
Management Permit Applications:
| Submit applications
for Stormwater Management Permits to perform activities
such as converting agricultural land to non-agricultural
uses; changing the use of land causing a change in natural
flow patterns of predevelopment conditions; altering
any ditches, dikes, terraces, berms, swales, or other
stormwater management facility; filling, excavating,
grading, and changing the natural topography to the
Engineering Department, provided such stormwater management
activities do not result in adverse impacts to adjoining
properties, waterbodies, watercourses, wetlands, adjacent
roadways or drainage systems, etc. Construction
of infrastructure or addition of impervious area is
not covered under this permit. |
| Stormwater Basin Studies |
Escambia
County has determined that proper management of stormwater
is necessary to reduce the frequency of flooding and to
improve the quality of runoff reaching surface waterbodies
and wetlands. To this end, 41 watershed drainage basins
have been designated in the county for detailed basin
master plan studies. Studies have been completed or are
underway for 10 of these
basins.
It is anticipated that a minimum of 3 additional basin
studies will be contracted each of the successive years
until all 41 basin master plan studies are completed.
This watershed basin approach identifies current structural
stormwater systems that exist in each drainage basin,
surveys property owners within the basins to determine
their concerns, and identifies recommended future stormwater
and drainage projects that will reduce flooding and improve
water quality in each basin. |
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