Deal Lake Commission
Monmouth
County, NJ
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Deal Lake Commission Priority:
Regional Storm Water Management
Plan (RSWMP)
Current
List of Suggestions and
Proposed Projects for Deal Lake RSWMP
Since
the fall of 2004, a committee of more than 20 partner organizations,
municipalities and local residents has been working to develop a
Regional
 Storm
Water Management Plan (RSWMP) for the Deal Lake
Watershed. The Deal Lake Commission,
the state-appointed steward of Deal Lake, is spearheading the effort under a grant from the
New Jersey
Department of Environmental Protection's 319(h) Nonpoint Source
Pollution Control and Management program. The goal of the project is to
identify stormwater-related
problems and develop cost-effective
solutions to reduce pollution and flooding throughout the lake's
watershed (the total land area that drains to the lake and its
tributaries).
Many have
asked what these Storm Water Management Plans are all about. The
two obvious implementations are new Storm Water Drain designs (as
seen in the picture to the right) and the responsibility of each town to
clean the catch basins (as seen by the picture below.) The new
"Eco" design storm drains should prevent about 90% of the floatables and
trash from entering our lake. All new road construction and street
 upgrades
are required to use the new storm drains. Cleaning catch basins on
a scheduled basis should help minimize the amount of silt and sand
migrating into the lake.
After the
severe flooding of 2005, the importance of this plan was raised to an
"urgent" level. We're looking at some creative ideas to reduce the
risk of flooding in the main section of Deal Lake and significantly
lower
the amount of floatables and phosphorous entering the lake. Read
the latest update from our
recent RSWMP meeting. Also take a look at our working
list of
recommendations
(updated 4/2/07) which will be the heart of the
regional plan that we submit to the DEP.
A draft of our RSWMP is due July 2006.
Ocean Township's Storm Drain
crew cleaning a seriously
clogged storm basin in
Colonial Terrace section of Ocean.
(This page is still under construction -
please bear with us)
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