The Chesapeake Bay Trust (the Trust) is proud to partner with the City of Annapolis on their Stormwater Facility Maintenance Support Program to provide a one-time maintenance opportunity for property owners with best management practices (BMPs) in need of maintenance assistance.

Maintenance of these BMPs is ultimately the responsibility of you as the property owner, but the City and the Trust recognize there are barriers to maintaining BMPs so we are offering this one-time maintenance assistance. The Trust and the City will connect selected property owners to selected maintenance contractors to coordinate the maintenance or surveying/verifying process. Support will be in the form of a cost-share model with the selected contractors.

This is the first year of the City of Annapolis Stormwater Facility Maintenance Support Program. The City and Trust anticipate supporting between 5-10 projects during this first year.

What this funds:

• Scope 1 Maintenance of BMPs: provides a one-time maintenance opportunity for property owners in the City of Annapolis with existing stormwater best management practices (BMPs) in the City’s BMP Inventory (https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/1062496e984144969d5d01831feb0d98).
• Scope 2 Surveying/Verifying BMPs: provides an opportunity for property owners with BMPs not registered in the City’s BMP Inventory to have them surveyed, verified, and added to the City’s Inventory. Once projects have been verified and added to the City’s Inventory, property owners can apply for a reduction in their stormwater fee.

Eligibility: Eligible applicants include City of Annapolis property owners with an existing stormwater best management practice (BMP) on their property (Scope 1) or with a best management practice (BMP) that is not listed in the City of Annapolis BMP Inventory and you would like to have it verified and added to the Inventory (Scope 2). An authorized representative of a property owner may apply on behalf of a property owner with documented approval from the property owner.