Storm Water Management Program
DEP
 

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Links and Dep Fact Sheets:

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Rain Brochure

Stream Clean Up

Fertilizing Your Lawn 

Maintaining Your BMP's

 

Water Quality Information for Residents  - Who are you going to call?

   Residents may be the first to notice "illicit" discharges flowing into storm sewers or coming out of storm sewer
   outfall pipes - all of which ends up in our streams.

   Springfield Township and Pennsylvania Stormwater Regulations require a thorough investigation of all potentially
   illegal discharges (pollutants) into our streams.  Some examples are: 

• Sediment leaving a construction site in stormwater  (your county conservation district)
• Observed pollution event or pollutants  in stream (DEP)
• Clogged or leaking sewer lines (your sewer authority)
• "Dry Weather Flow"-water flowing from outfall pipes after 72 hours without rain ( Municipality)
• Spills, hazardous materials (DEP spills or PEMA hotlines)
• Illegal dumping activity into water courses (your municipality, DEP)
• Dry weather flows create discharges from outfall pipes into streams after 72 hours or more without rain (your municipality)
• Fish Kills (Fish Commission, DEP)
• Water main breaks (Aqua PA or Chester Water Authority). 

Report violations or problems to the authorities listed below:

Citizen Complaint Form

  Drainage Complaint Form

www.crcwatersheds.org

Water pollution events can also be reported through the DEP website, www.dep.state.pa.us, select Environmental Complaints, then Southeast Region.