The Environmental Finance Center (EFC) at the University of Maryland began communicating with the Berkeley County Public Service Sewer District (PSSD) in May of 2014, brainstorming ways to develop a program to comply with the PSSD’s Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) Phase II permit under unique and challenging circumstances. A project developed from this initial dialogue beginning in the fall of 2014, and focused on the EFC providing technical assistance to the PSSD on developing a County-scale stormwater management program with an associated financing strategy. This effort was funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s (NFWF) Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund Technical Assistance Program. Through this program, NFWF connects communities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed with organizations that provide technical assistance to support local communities’ restoration efforts.

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