Title
Resolution to Amend the Fiscal Year 2025 Council Approved Budget and Accept and Appropriate the 2024 Stormwater Local Assistance Fund Grant Awarded by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality for the City’s Pembroke Pond Retrofit Project
Purpose
PURPOSE/BACKGROUND:
In 2013, the Virginia General Assembly created and set forth specific parameters for the administration of the Stormwater Local Assistance Fund (“SLAF” or the “Fund”). The purpose of the Fund is to provide matching grants to local governments for the planning, design, and implementation of stormwater best management practices that address cost efficiency and commitments related to reducing water quality pollutant loads. In accordance with that legislation, the State Water Control Board (the “Board”) approved Guidelines for the implementation of the SLAF program in 2013 and those guidelines were revised by the Board in December 2016.
The City of Hampton (the “City”), through its Department of Public Works, applied to the SLAF program in 2024 for the Pembroke Pond Retrofit Project (the “Project”). The total cost of the approved project is $514,400. A grant of $385,800 (75% of the total cost) was awarded by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (the “DEQ”) and has subsequently been received for the Project (the “Grant”). A 25% local match from the City’s Public Works' Stormwater Management Facilitates Retrofit Fund was required in the amount $128,600.
Discussion:
See Purpose/Background
Impact:
Acceptance of this Grant will allow the Project to achieve additional nutrient reduction that will be used towards achieving Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (“TMDL”) nutrient reduction goals required by the City’s Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4). Conversion of this basin to a Level 1 Wet Pond will eliminate existing short-circuiting, provide additional water quality benefits, and increase the storage capacity to help alleviate flooding in the area....
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