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Proposed Concord - Alewife Area Stormwater Management Guidelines
June 2006 — added to website April 27, 2007

71-page Adobe Acrobat PDF file on City of Cambridge website (see Table of Contents below):
www.cambridgema.gov/TheWorks/stormwater/pdffiles/ConcordAlewifeStormwaterManagement.pdf

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SECTION 1 – INTRODUCTION
1.1 Concord-Alewife Area Stormwater Management Objectives
1.2 The Alewife Watershed
1.3 What Is Stormwater Management?
1.4 Hydrologic Impacts of New Development
1.5 Water Quality Concerns from Development
1.6 Pollutants of Concern for Alewife Brook

SECTION 2 – CONCORD-ALEWIFE AREA HYDROLOGY
2.1 Overview
2.2 Soils
2.3 Groundwater
2.4 Water Quality

SECTION 3 – STORMWATER CONTROL REQUIREMENTS IN THE CONCORD-ALEWIFE AREA 3.1 Introduction
3.2 Stormwater Quantity Control
3.2.1 Introduction
3.2.2 Conventional Storage Techniques
3.3 Stormwater Quality Control
3.4 Standards
3.5 Typical Cambridge Best Management Practice (BMP) Controls
3.6 Treatment Requirements at Stormwater Hot Spots

SECTION 4 – SANITARY SEWER REQUIREMENTS IN THE CONCORD-ALEWIFE AREA
4.1 Sanitary Sewer Requirements

REFERENCES
APPENDIX 1 – COMMON POLLUTANTS
APPENDIX 2 – LOW-IMPACT DEVELOPMENT (LID) IN THE CONCORD-ALEWIFE AREA
APPENDIX 3 – TECHNICAL BASIS FOR STORMWATER QUANTITY GUIDELINES FOR THE CONCORD-ALEWIFE AREA
APPENDIX 4 – EXAMPLE CALCULATION FOR WATER QUALITY CONTROL RUNOFF VOLUME
APPENDIX 5 – NRCS DESIGN STORM DISTRIBUTIONS