The Stormwater Action Fund project is currently under review and will be updated here for SRA member communities. Contact: Ann Jackson, phone 443-223-7236. The descriptive material below will be revised and superseded, and is meanwhile provided here only for purposes of historical reference.
STORMWATER ACTION FUND (SAF)
A Stormwater Management Seed Program
for the Severn River
Purpose: Empower selected communities to develop improved stormwater management systems through SRA matching funds for engineering designs.
Guidelines:
- Matching funds, up to $1000, are available for qualifying communities in the Severn River Watershed. Qualifying communities are members of SRA who are applying for grants for stormwater management and seek to use best practices for infiltration and bioretention.
- SRA funds are to be used towards developing professional designs for innovative, state-of-the-art stormwater management systems.
- These systems might include one or more of the following:
- Slow the rate of stormwater runoff to reduce erosion and increase infiltration
- Enable planting of native species
- Promote planting of species recognized as having the ability to absorb nitrogen and sequester phosphorus and other pollutants
- Repair eroded streambeds or shorelines
- Restore natural shorelines where stormwater reaches the river
- Remove non-native invasive plant species.
- Communities will retain the services of a professional landscape architect/stormwater engineer/design engineer to design a qualifying project and prepare formal plans as required by funding and permitting agencies.
- Communities would then incorporate these plans in a grant application, and submit a copy to both the granting agency and SRA.
- SRA will match up to $1,000 of the demonstrated payment made by the community to the designer upon submission of the invoice and proof of payment by the community.
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