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While our Street Division performs maintenance on our drainage
culverts, ditches and canals, to facilitate proper stormwater runoff
after it rains, the City of New Bern also works to improve the overall
health and vitality of the Neuse and Trent Rivers, Neuse Estuary,
and all other streams, wetlands, and waterways for future generations to
come. Through subdivision and development reviews, we seek to encourage
growth that is environmentally responsible, well designed and located,
and respectful of the character of the city.
Through a program of subdivision and development reviews and construction
inspection, the city ensures all Water Quality, Sedimentation and Erosion
Control, Wetlands, and CAMA permits are in place and all work is performed
within the limits of those permits.
In the late 1990's, the North Carolina State Legislature adopted a specific
set of rules which target the reduction of nitrogen into the Neuse
River Basin from non-point sources, such as runoff from logging and
tree farming in the Forestry Industry, runoff from farming operations
in the Agricultural Industry and urban stormwater from fifteen governmental
entities throughout the Neuse River Basin List of Governmental Entities.
The City of New Bern as one of those entities was required to implement
a program which reduces total nitrogen export by 30 percent, maintains
a no net increase of peak flow, and ensures compliance with requirements
for protecting and maintaining existing riparian buffers in all new
developments which disturb more than one half acre of land. Under
the rule,
each entity is required to implement public education programs (Neuse Cleanwater Education Partnership - www.NCcleanwater.org), identify
and remove illegal discharges into the stormwater system, identify
suitable locations for stormwater retrofit projects for the reduction
of nitrogen, and submit an annual report to the state documenting
progress and net changes to nitrogen load from within the city’s
planning jurisdiction. As a convenience to developers, engineers,
and those interested in knowing more about the rule as it applies
to the City of New Bern, please go to Neuse
Stormwater Management Manual where you will find information
concerning treatment requirements under the rule, the city’s stormwater
ordinance, and downloadable forms needed in the application for a
stormwater permit.
CONTACT US:
Jordan Hughes, City Engineer
City of New Bern
P.O. Box 1129
New Bern,
N.C. 28563-1129
(252) 639-7526 Office
(252) 636-4103 Fax
Email: hughesj@newbern-nc.org
