Design Standards for Stormwater Management

The City of White Bear Lake's stormwater requirements were written to meet the City's goals to preserve, protect, and manage its water resources as well as to meet federal, state, and watershed stormwater regulations.

Engineering design standards, also attached below, are in place to meet the following objectives:

• Minimize increases in stormwater runoff rates from any development in order to reduce flooding, siltation and erosion and in order to maintain the integrity of water resources;

• Minimize increases in nonpoint source pollution caused by stormwater runoff from development which would otherwise degrade local water quality;

• Minimize the total annual volume of surface water runoff that flows from any specific site during the following development so as not to exceed the predevelopment hydrologic regime to the maximum extent practicable;

• Ensure that these management controls are properly maintained and pose no threat to public safety; and

• Implement stormwater management controls to help meet current and future total maximum daily laod (TMDL) goals, to address the need to improve water quality, and to meet objectives in the Local Surface Water Management Plan.