MIDS design sequence flow chart

Box 1

Did you gather the site information necessary to proceed through the flow chart?

Yes

No or Unsure

Box 2

Prior to using the flow chart, gather the following preliminary information.

• Conduct site review
• Define performance goal

Conduct site review

• Aerial photos and topographic maps
• County soil surveys and other soil information as available
• County Geologic Atlas
• Local groundwater levels
• DWSMA and Wellhead Protection maps
• FEMA and local floodplain maps
• Soil borings and site survey
• MPCA listing of potentially contaminated sites
• Phase 1 and 2 Environmental Site Assessments
• TMDLs and local water quality standards
• Wetland delineations, MNRAM assessments, and wetland classifications
• Proposed conditions, conceptual/preliminary site design
• Local zoning and land use requirements/ordinances, including stormwater rate control requirements
• Communication with local landowners, LGU, or others knowledgeable about the site
• Site inspection

PROCEED TO THE NEXT STEP

Box 3

• New and redevelopment projects: Retain on site a volume of 1.1 inches from impervious surfaces
• Linear projects: Retain on site the larger of 1.1 inches from all new or 0.55 inches from all new and fully reconstructed impervious surfaces

PROCEED TO THE FIRST QUESTION

Links

• Performance goals for new development, re-development and linear projects
• For background and derivation of the performance goals, see technical documents and presentations on the MIDS website. We provide links to some of these documents and presentations below.
  • Preliminary Performance Goal Alternatives Evaluation
  • Assessment of MIDS Performance Goal Alternatives: Runoff Volumes, Runoff Rates, and Pollutant Removal Efficiencies
  • Credit Methodology System Review
  • Performance goal review

Box 4

Does project create one acre or more of new and/or fully reconstructed impervious surfaces?

• Yes

• No

PREVIOUS QUESTION and ANSWER: The previous question defined the performance goals.

Box 5

MIDS PERFORMANCE GOAL DOES NOT APPLY
The project creates less than 1 acre of impervious surface.

Box 6

Example of a linear project where site constraints likely do not exist

Example of a linear project where ROW will likely be constraining

Is the project linear?

Yes

No

PREVIOUS QUESTION and ANSWER: Does project create one acre or more of new and/or fully reconstructed impervious surfaces? Answer - Yes

Box 7

Are there constraints due to lack of available ROW, off site drainage and/or rate control requirements?

Yes

No

Box 8

Is Flexible Treatment Option (FTO) 2 feasible?

Yes

No

PREVIOUS QUESTION and ANSWER: Are there restraints due to lack of available right-of-way, off-site drainage, and/or rate control requirements? Answer: Yes

Box 9

You have completed the flow chart. Return to Flexible treatment options

Select Flexible treatment Option 2. You have completed the flow chart.

• Provide documentation of offsite runon to project area
• Provide documentation of lack of right-of-way

Flexible Treatment Option 2 (FTO #2)

Applicant attempts to comply with the following conditions:

1. Achieve volume reduction to the maximum extent practicable (as determined by the Local Authority), and
2. Remove 60 percent of the annual total phosphorus load, and
3. Options considered and presented shall examine the merits of relocating project elements to address varying soil conditions and other constraints across the site.

PREVIOUS STEP: It was determined that the site is linear, there are constraints due to lack of right-of-way or off/site drainage and/or rate control requirements, and a reasonable effort to acquire all of the right-of-way cannot be made.

Box 10

You have completed the flow chart. Return to Flexible treatment options

SELECT FLEXIBLE TREATMENT OPTION 3

Off-site mitigation (including banking or cash or treatment on another project, as determined by the local authority) equivalent to the volume reduction performance goal can be used in areas selected in the following order of preference:

1. Locations that yield benefits to the same receiving water that receives runoff from the original construction activity.
2. Locations within the same Department of Natural Resources (DNR) catachment area as the original construction activity.
3. Locations in the next adjacent DNR catchment area up-stream.
4. Locations anywhere within the local authority's jurisdiction.

PREVIOUS QUESTION: It was determined that Flexible Treatment Option 2 is not feasible.

Box 11

Are there zoning and land use requirements that make the Performance Goal not feasible?

Yes

No

PREVIOUS QUESTION and ANSWER:

• Is the project linear? Answer: No

or

• Are there constraints due to lack of available ROW, off site drainage and/or rate control requirements? Answer: No

Links

• Return to Flexible treatment options
• Return to Design sequence flow chart
• Return to List of flow chart questions