The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality has issued its final Phase II Stormwater rule. This rule requires that the City of Casper develop, implement, and enforce a stormwater management program to reduce the discharge of pollutants from the City of Casper stormwater system and to protect water quality.

Everything that you see, and a lot that you can't see laying in the gutters or on the streets is carried into the storm drains by rain or melting snow. This water and all of the pollutants that it carries, flows untreated, directly into our creeks and river. It is all of this non-point source pollution that the City of Casper must now address and reduce. Over the five-year permit term, we will assess and change the way we look at construction, post-construction, good housekeeping, illicit discharges, public education and public involvement.

This permit will allow the City of Casper to continue to discharge stormwater into our creeks and river rather than building a separate piping system and waste stormwater treatment plant. It is an important program that will affect every citizen.

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A storm drain system is made up of...?

• Street gutters which collect runoff
• Storm drain pipe which transports runoff
• Catch basins - inlets you see at street corners, low points of the sides of streets, or in parking lots
• Detention/retention basins that hold stormwater
• Ditches and drainage ways that further transport
  water to our local creeks & the North Platte River

• All of these items make up the City of Casper storm drain system which consists of:
  Over 529.7 miles of gutter that collects water runoff
• 75 miles of storm sewer pipe, three lift stations and 1,168 manholes
• 3,513 inlets / catch basins, numerous ditches and drainageways, and over 200 outfalls into our six creeks and the North Platte River.