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BREE Municipal Survey Dr. Richard Clark PTAC Meeting Burlington, Vermont May 24, 2018

Su Survey Desig ign. . BREE Vermont Municipal Survey on Stormwater Management WHAT: NSF-EPSCoR Basin Resilience to Extreme Events (BREE) survey on stormwater management (first of two surveys), Online LimeSurvey, 63 questions WHERE: State of Vermont municipalities WHO: All municipal officials in Vermont (including, but not limited to, mayor, town manager, town clerk, select board chair/member, town/city council chair/member, public works director/employee, wastewater treatment director, town planner, town zoning administrator, city/town stormwater manager, town planning commission chair/member, and conservation commission chair) WHEN: Disseminated Summer 2017 via Castleton Polling Institute, Data collection ends by November 2017, Data Analysis Winter 2017-2018

Su Survey Questio ions and In Intended Use se • ity  feeding into the Governance Network Model Cap apacit ity & Con onnectiv ivit • Dec ecis isio ion-making pr proc ocesses (who decides within local government) • Town n pr prep eparedness (adoption of SMP, ordinances, & flood hazard mitigation plans) • Ind Indiv ivid idual l kno nowle ledge/awareness • Town n Reso esources • Funding – sought and received • Practices in use to address stormwater in town • Practices that may be adopted • Ass ssessment of of dr drain inage infr frastru ructure de designs (aesthetics & maintainability) • An n inventory ry of of gen eneral main aintenance pr practic ices – whether performed in- house or contracted out

Final Valid Response Count Percent Number of total all respondents 240 25% of sample frame Number of valid respondents 198 21% of sample frame Number of municipalities covered 136 55% of VT municipalities Number of counties covered 14 100% of VT counties Number of municipalities in 74 64% of municipalities in the basin Champlain basin

Representativeness of the data, regions COUNTY MUNICIPALITIES INDIVIDUAL MUNICIPALITIES PERCENT IN COUNTY RESPONDENTS REPRESENTED IN REPRESENTED SURVEY ADDISON 23 24 14 61% BENNINGTON 16 7 7 44% CALEDONIA 17 13 8 47% CHITTENDEN 18 21 11 61% ESSEX 13 3 3 23% FRANKLIN 16 16 10 63% GRAND ISLE 5 3 2 40% LAMOILLE 11 11 6 55% ORANGE 17 12 8 47% ORLEANS 20 16 11 55% RUTLAND 28 20 16 57% WASHINGTON 20 16 13 65% WINDHAM 21 18 12 57% WINDSOR 24 18 15 63% TOTAL 249 198 136 55%

Representativeness of the data, size MUNICIPALITY SIZE PERCENT OF PERCENT MUNICIPALITIES REPRESENTED IN VERMONT IN SURVEY LESS THAN 2,500 71% 63% 2,500 TO 10,000 26% 34% GREATER THAN 10,000 3% 4%

Representativeness of the data, stormwater characteristics MUNICIPALITY CHARACTERISTICS PERCENT OF PERCENT MUNICIPALITIES IN REPRESENTED IN VERMONT SURVEY STORMWATER MASTER PLAN 22% 23% BYLAWS/ORDINANCES ADDRESSING 25% 21% STORMWATER MS4 DESIGNATION 5% (12) 7% (9)

Awareness of ANR’s Tactical Basin Planning Process 100% 32% 34% 80% 46% Percent of responses 14% 60% 18% Not aware at all Not too aware Somewhat aware 40% 36% 38% Very aware 36% 20% 14% 18% 11% 3% 0% Town Clerks Elected officials and policy Managers & implementors makers

Familiarity with the Clean Water Fund Very familiar Somewhat familiar Not too familiar Not at all familiar 60% 44% 42% 39% 40% 28% 28% 25% 25% 22% 20% 20% 16% 6% 5% 0% Town Clerks Elected officials and policy makers Managers & implementors

Respondents’ views of barriers to data and/or data modeling Verbatim responses The Select Board members are volunteers so it is difficult for them to spend more time than they already do to examine data. The Highway crew does not have access to a computer at work. ***** The major challenges are that the technical expertise to generate models and compile data are expensive and require high degree of expertise. We often don't have that available within our city employees. Opportunities to use state and regional planning data and models is very helpful.

Respondents’ concern about data relevance Verbatim responses The drawback of using models is that they don't fit all circumstances and most of the stormwater issues that affect a small community are site specific. ***** At the State level there are multiple water quality models which all achieve different results and do not overlap. Either make one model to "rule them all", make their outputs overlap, or write up so description of each and make it as easy as possible to stumble through them all.

With whom does the municipality share information? Vermont League of Cities and Towns 82% Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) 80% Regional Planning Commission 75% Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental 59% Conservation -- Stormwater division Your local conservation district 47% Other towns 44% Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental 34% Conservation -- Tactical Basin Planners Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental 29% Conservation -- Ecosystem Restoration Program (ERP) Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food & Markets 22% Local environmental or natural resource conservation groups 22%

From whom does the municipality receive technical assistance? Vermont League of Cities and Towns 86% Regional Planning Commission 84% Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) 79% Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental 61% Conservation -- Stormwater division Your local conservation district 29% Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental 24% Conservation -- Tactical Basin Planners Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental 22% Conservation -- Ecosystem Restoration Program (ERP) Local environmental or natural resource conservation groups 15% Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food & Markets 12% Other towns 9%

With whom does the municipality share human/physical assets? Other towns 31% Regional Planning Commission 18% Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) 17% Vermont League of Cities and Towns 11% Your local conservation district 4% Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental 3% Conservation -- Stormwater division Local environmental or natural resource conservation groups 2% Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental 0% Conservation -- Ecosystem Restoration Program (ERP) Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental 0% Conservation -- Tactical Basin Planners Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food & Markets 0%

From whom does the municipality receive monetary support? Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) 67% Vermont League of Cities and Towns 23% Regional Planning Commission 19% Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental 13% Conservation -- Stormwater division Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental 13% Conservation -- Ecosystem Restoration Program (ERP) Local environmental or natural resource conservation groups 4% Other towns (please specify) 4% Your local conservation district 3% Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food & Markets 1% Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental 1% Conservation -- Tactical Basin Planners

Places to which municipalities have applied for funding, by size Small (<2,500) Medium (2,500-10,000) Large (>10,000) 100% 100% 80% 61% 60% 50% 50% 40% 29% 27% 27% 25% 25% 23% 18% 20% 16% 6% 3% 0% 0% Lake Champlain Basin Program USDA Natural Resources Vermont's Agency of Natural Other Has not applied for any funding Conservation Service Resources

Respondents’ perceptions of the fair cost share for addressing “impaired waters” in Vermont Average perceived fair share or the costs 42% 25% 15% 11% 10% 10% 9% 6% 4% Federal State Farmers or Private Municipal Private Other Foresters Residential government government agricultral industrial governments commercial private citizens organizations interests interests

Current town practices in effect to address stormwater Road drainage such as culverts and ditches 99% Vegetated or Grass swale 53% Road drainage with storm sewer/pipes 47% Wet detention/retention ponds 20% Dry detention pond/basin (surface, non-infiltration) 19% Bioretention without underdrain, or raingarden 18% Infiltration/storage basin 17% Infiltration/storage trench 17% Gutter/downspout disconnection to vegetated area 16% Dry well 16% Shallow surface wetland 13% Rain barrel (30-55 gal.) 13% Pervious/porous pavement (asphalt, concrete, etc.,… 12% Bioretention with an underdrain connecting to storm sewer 12% Pervious/porous pavers (blocks, bricks, designed for… 10% Gravel-bed wetland 7% Tree pit/cell/box 7% Other 6% Green roof 5% Cistern (200+ gal.) 3% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%