The green infrastructure and low impact development practices provided in the BMP Manual shall be utilized for all regulated activities wherever possible. Water volume controls shall be implemented using the Design Storm Method in subsection (a) or the Simplified Method in subsection (b) below. For regulated activity areas equal or less than one acre that do not require hydrologic routing to design the storm water facilities, this title establishes no preference for either methodology; therefore, the applicant may select either methodology on the basis of economic considerations, the intrinsic limitations on applicability of the analytical procedures associated with each methodology and other factors.
(a) The Design Storm Method (CG-1 in the BMP Manual) is applicable to any size of regulated activity. This method requires detailed modeling based on site conditions.
(1) Do not increase the post-development total runoff volume for all storms equal to or less than the two-year 24-hour duration precipitation; and
(2) For modeling purposes:
(A) Existing (pre-development) non-forested pervious areas must be considered meadow in good condition; and
(B) Twenty percent of existing impervious area, when present, shall be considered meadow in good condition in the model for existing conditions.
(b) The Simplified Method (CG-2 in the BMP Manual) provided below is independent of site conditions and should be used if the Design Storm Method is not followed. This method is not applicable to regulated activities that disturb greater than one acre, or for projects that require design of storm water storage facilities. For new impervious surfaces:
(1) Storm water facilities shall capture at least the first two inches of runoff from all new impervious surfaces;
(2) At least the first one inch of runoff from new impervious surfaces shall be permanently removed from the runoff flow (i.e., it shall not be released into the surface waters of this commonwealth). Removal options include reuse, evaporation, transpiration and infiltration;
(3) Wherever possible, infiltration facilities should be designed to accommodate infiltration of the entire permanently removed runoff; however, in all cases at least the first one-half inch of the permanently removed runoff should be infiltrated; and
(4) This method is exempt from the requirements of § 1393.04.
(Ord. 6211, approved 4-15-2012; Ord. 6481, approved 3-14-2024)