Bylaws

The Clean Water Act authorized the EPA to regulate the discharge of polluted water from identifiable outlets into water bodies. This regulation is done through the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit for Stormwater Discharges from Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4s). One of the requirements of the NPDES program is that towns must implement bylaws for the purpose of Illicit Discharge Detection & Elimination, Erosion & Sediment Control, and Post-Development Stormwater Management.

Below are links to summaries of relevant bylaws, matrices of the bylaws content, and NPDES reports filed by the three towns with the most area in the Nashoba Brook watershed: Acton, Littleton, and Westford.

Acton:
Bylaw summaries
Bylaw content matrix
2012/13 Stormwater Report

Littleton:
Bylaw summaries
Bylaw content matrix
2012/13 Stormwater Report

Westford:
Bylaw summaries
Bylaw content matrix
2012/13 Stormwater Report