Stormwater ERP Milestones
The project will determine the effectiveness of an ERP in encouraging specific business sectors to implement stormwater Best Management Practice (BMP) technologies. The project will proceed in the following manner:
- Select the study areas using the following criteria: Maine will choose urban, impaired streams that have the highest density of hotspots. Massachusetts will select an urban, significantly impaired stream;
- Define the total area of impervious surface of all drive-thrus or malls located in the chosen watershed;
- Each state will measure the impervious project area in the watersheds for each targeted business sector to measure water quality improvement based on implementation of BMP technologies;
- Solicit participants from the total number of businesses in each sector by using incentives;
- Develop compliance assistance tools and delivery methods;
- Provide similar compliance assistance in each state, including training workshops (e.g., data and training for the BMPs will be the same);
- Using the same menu of stormwater BMPs, each state will assist participants to install the BMPs in their impervious areas;
- The team will calculate the modeled percentage of pollutant reductions that will be achieved by the installation of each type of BMP technology, and;
- The team will then compare the relative success of the two states’ incentive approaches and their selection of business sectors, and evaluate the transferability of this ERP to a watershed-wide or statewide program.
