Framingham is designated as having a Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES).
In an on-going effort to manage stormwater within Framingham, the City has developed a Stormwater Management Plan (SWMP) as required for MS4 communities.
If you would like to provide comments relative to the SWMP, please email Stormwater.
The 2016 Massachusetts Small MS4 General Permit was signed April 4, 2016 and became effective July 1, 2018. Framingham submitted a Notice of Intent (NOI) to EPA and MassDEP in October 2018 outlining the City’s best practices to comply with the terms of the permit.