New Development

The science of stormwater quality management is evolving and new and innovative control measure technologies are constantly being introduced to design professionals. For this reason, this manual will need to be a dynamic document that will be reviewed and updated periodically.  Manual users are responsible for ensuring that they are referencing the most current edition, by checking www.beriverfriendly.net (New Development) or contacting wrswqpr@saccounty.gov

• Stormwater Quality Design Manual for the Sacramento and South Placer Regions — download from the Sacramento Stormw​ater Quality Partnership website. 

Construction General Permit

Construction projects that include construction or land disturbance activities that result in a disturbance of one or more acres, or less than one acre but are part of a larger common plan of development or sale that totals one or more acres of land disturbance may be subject to the State Construction General Permit.  For more information, please go to the State Water Resources Control Board website.

Improvement Plan Documents​

Not sure which stormwater quality requirements apply to your project? Check out Tab​le 3-3

Want to know how many LID points you need for your project, or how much volume you need to treat? Please see the revised ​​residential​ and ​commercial ​LID Credits Worksheets!

• Page 3-12 of the Design Manual does not recommend projects that employ extensive BMPs to use the spreadsheets.  To use the spreadsheets, individual BMPs with respective sub-sheds can be used and then weighted against the total shed area.
• If there are multiple Points of Compliance (POCs), each POC must reach 100 points.

Maintenance Agreements/Covenants​

• Submittal Guide for Maintenance Agreement/Declaration of Covenants

Approved Stormwater Quality Treatment Devices (e.g., swales and approved proprietary devices) 

• Maintenance Agreement/Declaration of Covenants
• Maintenance Requirement Guidelines (Exhibit C of Maintenance Agreement)

Pilot Study for Stormwater Quality Treatment Devices (e.g. not already approved proprietary devices) 

• Protocol for Device Evaluation
• Maintenance Agreement/Declaration of Covenants for Provisional Device Monitoring, Maintenance and Access are available upon request. Please email requests to wrswqi@saccounty.gov

Annual Stormwater Quality Device Maintenance

• Self-Certification Form​
• Self-Certification Requirement Guidelines

This form includes interactive form fields. Once you've finished filling in the information, submit the document by clicking the submit button to send it directly to wrswqi@saccounty.gov.

For more information about New Development​ Standards

•  Sacra​mento Stormwater Quality Partnership New Development

Vendors

• Post Construction Stormwater Quality Treatment Maintenance for Proprietary Devices

Business Environmental Resource Center (BERC)

BERC provides free and confidential permitting and environmental compliance assistance to Sacramento area businesses. Contact them at (916) 874-2100, or check out their website at www.sacberc.org. ​

Informational Materials

The following documents can be found by visiting: Documents – BeRiverFriendly.net

• General Program Documents
• Brochures for the General Public
• Brochures for Businesses
• Construction Assistance Documents