STORMWATER MANAGEMENT

Stormwater News:

• Stormwater violations:                                                                                                                               
• • Report of parked vehicle leaking oil onto town street 
  • Report of volunteer group cleaning paint brushes in street and paint entering storm drain                                                                                              
  • Report of business washing building/pavement and washwater entering storm drain
  • Report of business washing vehicles and washwater entering storm drain
  • Report of business washing equipment in parking lot and washwater entering storm drain
  • Report of  business dumping washwater into parking lot                                                          

• Lantern Lane & Wheelwright Avenue Storm Drainage Project -  this project installed stormwater drainage pipes and structures on Lantern Lane and Wheelwright Avenue.    This project removed the last known public catch basin connected to the sanitary sewer system.  The contractor for the project was Jamco, of South Hampton, NH.  

• Construction and Post Construction

• Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination
• • A jogger reported seeing a milky discharge from an outlet pipe flowing into the river.  Investigation determined that a work sink was mistakenly connected to a storm drain line.     Illicit discharge eliminated. 
  • NHDES discovered a private sanitary sewer line discharging to a town storm drain.   Owners were notified.  Action was taken to properly connect private line to town sanitary sewer.  Illict discharge eliminated. 

•  Education and Outreach
• • Norris Brook Streamside Buffer Project - this project was funded by a grant from the NH Coastal Program and restores a portion of Norris Brook that flows through Swasey Parkway.  Due to the park environment, for many years the grass was cut to the edge of the brook.  This project provides new native plants along the edge of the brook to create an improved riparian area.  Vegetated areas stabilize shorelines, reduce flood waters, moderate water temperatures, and trap sediment and other pollutants that could otherwise wash into the stream.  A large portion of the project was planted in the spring and additional plants are planned for the fall.  Ironwood Design Group, LLC, donated the landscape design.  Volunteers also removed some of the invasive plants located at this site.  For more information on this project please contact the Exeter DPW.                              
  • Volunteers needed for "Exeter Clean Water Campaign"
  • • Install storm drain markers at catch basins                                                                 (town provides and all equipment/materials)
    • Litter cleanup                                                                                                                   (town provides materials; garbage bags, safety vests, disposable gloves)
    • Norris Brook Fall Planting