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Why are Ashland, Catlettsburg and Boyd County required to have a Phase II Storm Water Management Program?

April 26, 2017Ashland Boyd County ii Management phase storm water

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Why are Ashland, Catlettsburg and Boyd County required to have a Phase II Storm Water Management Program?

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The City of Ashland, City of Catlettsburg and Boyd County are part of the larger Huntington-Ashland WV/KY/OH urbanized area as calculated by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Being a part of this urbanized area each entity is designated a small municipal separate storm sewer systems (small MS4) by US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), subject to the Clean Water Act and the NPDES Phase II storm water program requirements. In the state of Kentucky the Kentucky Division of Water (KDOW) under the Department of Environmental Protection is the administrator of the Phase II storm water program.