Stormwater Management Municipal Training Program

The Neighborhood Design Center’s Municipal Training Program brought together five municipalities from Prince George’s County to form a cohort focused on enhancing stormwater management practices.

Each municipality, with varying levels of experience, received hands-on training from local stormwater engineering experts and developed customized maintenance schedules for their existing stormwater “Best Management Practices” or “BMP”s. The program created a network across municipalities, bringing public works departments and local agency leaders together to share skills and build relationships to power future collaboration and problem-solving.

The participating municipalities, containing historically disinvested areas,had been working to address stormwater pollution, flooding, and tree canopy loss for over a decade. By focusing on BMP maintenance, this project strengthened the municipalities’ ability to sustainably manage stormwater infrastructure and protect priority watersheds in the Northeast and Northwest Branches of the Anacostia River.

Due to its success, a second round of funding was secured to expand to new municipalities and facilitate further training and knowledge sharing.