Athens-Clarke County Stormwater Management Program

Proceedings of the 1999 Georgia Water Resources Conference, March 30 and 31, Athens, Georgia.In 1995, the citizens of Athens-Clarke County approved a special local option sales tax which included a component for stormwater management. The comprehensive stormwater management program is intended to help minimize future damage to property, protect existing watersheds, manage land development activities, and plan for needed drainage improvements. This program includes procedures to identify problem areas, to perform the hydrologic and hydraulic analyses necessmy to quantify the magnitude of the problems, to develop and evaluate remediation alternatives, and to establish priorities for project implementation. Stormwater management is a dynamic process. New development, changes in land use plans, and changes in state and federal laws and regulations require changes in various components of the program as they occur.Sponsored and Organized by: U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of TechnologyThis book was published by the Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2202 with partial funding provided by the U.S. Department of Interior, geological Survey, through the Georgia Water Research Insttitute as authorized by the Water Research Institutes Authorization Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-397). The views and statements advanced in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not represent official views or policies of the University of Georgia or the U.S. Geological Survey or the conference sponsors