Treatment Guidelines for stormwater with regard to EQS

Guidelines for stormwater treatment is a complex subject. A lot of time is spent responding to statements and revising documents due to projects’ impact on the recipient and Environmental Quality Standards (EQS) not having been successfully evaluated. To avoid this and to provide supervisory authorities with the necessary tools, which are not facilitated by general benchmarks for stormwater discharge, it is crucial to use a method based on the recipient to assess compliance with EQS.

StormTac has lengthy involvement in developing a requirement framework for compliance with EQS from a recipient perspective that is reasonable and straightforward to use for municipalities, consultants, and regulatory authorities. The foundation of this work is recipient modeling, which can be used both for setting requirements in detailed planning and for strategic action planning in a catchment area. This work has been carried out in collaboration with county administrative boards and Havs- och Vattenmyndigheten, where the developed methodology is anchored and agreed to provide the essential information and tools for regulatory work.
So far, we have initiated the process of developing guidelines for stormwater treatment with an EQS- and recipient perspective together with Järfälla Municipality, VA SYD, Roslagsvatten, and Kungsbacka Municipality amongst others.

Contact us for a meeting via info@stormtac.com, and we can discuss how we can help your municipality move forward.

Looking forward to hearing from you!