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NPDES MS4


National Pollution Discharge Elimination Systems (NPDES) Phase II for Discharges from Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4)

Polluted storm water runoff is often transported to municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s) and ultimately discharged into local rivers and streams without treatment. EPA’s Stormwater Phase II Rule establishes an MS4 stormwater management program that is intended to improve the Nation’s waterways by reducing the quantity of pollutants that stormwater picks up and carries into storm sewer systems during storm events. Common pollutants include oil and grease from roadways, pesticides from lawns, sediment from construction sites, pet wastes, and carelessly discarded trash, such as cigarette butts, paper wrappers, and plastic bottles. When deposited into nearby waterways through MS4 discharges, these pollutants can impair the waterways, thereby discouraging recreational use of the resource, contaminating drinking water supplies, and interfering with the habitat for fish, other aquatic organisms, and wildlife.

In 1990, EPA promulgated rules establishing Phase I of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) stormwater program. The Phase I program for MS4s requires operators of “medium” and “large” MS4s, that is, those that generally serve populations of 100,000 or greater, to implement a stormwater management program as a means to control polluted discharges from these MS4s. The Stormwater Phase II Rule extends coverage of the NPDES stormwater program to certain “small” MS4s, like Morton, but takes a slightly different approach to how the stormwater management program is developed and implemented.

This web page includes links to the documents that are part of the Village of Morton’s efforts to minimize pollution from storm water runoff, as part of its federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) Phase II, General Permit No. ILR40.

General NPDES Permit ILR40
NOI 2008
NOI 2013
MS4 Annual Report 2016-2017
MS4 Annual Report 2017-2018

 

Related Links

Tri-County Regional Planning Commission

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – Federal

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) – State