CRRA2019

Rob Hilton is the President of HF&H Consultants where he has personally supported over 150 communities on over 400 projects. HF&H helps local governments have successful recycling, solid waste, water, wastewater, and storm water programs. Today, Rob will talk about HF&H’s work at the intersection of Zero Waste and stormwater as they help local agencies throughout California find ways to connect programs and funding to achieve zero discharge in their storm water.

Regulations are increasingly drawing stormwater, wastewater, and solid waste closer together. Trash reduction requirements are now tied to municipal NPDES stormwater permits, and, as such, local jurisdictions are trying to bridge the programmatic gap between the historically separate sectors. How can solid waste collection standards be utilized to reduce litter entering the stormwater system? How can those standards be implemented into franchise agreements? And how can local jurisdictions fund the trash reduction requirements?  Funding trash reduction requirements through your solid waste or wastewater rates can free up general fund resources which would otherwise need to go to stormwater funding.  With the recent passage of SB231, the California Legislature has made it easier to fund stormwater programs from solid waste, wastewater, and stormwater rates instead of the general fund.

The presentation will address the preceding questions and will additionally:

• Educate the audience on the regulatory nexus between stormwater and solid waste.
• Highlight funding sources available to communities for litter mitigation programs.
• Describe how local jurisdictions can implement new fees to cover the cost of trash reduction requirements.