Page 12 - 2020 MVPC Annual Report

Alan Benson, Town Administrator
Boxford

Additionally, MVPC was able in 2020 to continue
providing support for the town’s GIS (Geographic In-
formation System) by coordinating data integration
with outside consultants and updating all parcel data
for FY21.

Stormwater management was a priority for all com-
munities in the Merrimack Valley in 2020 as they con-
tinued to work toward meeting tightened federal
stormwater regulations in an effort to reduce water
pollution.

Contaminants like fertilizers, grease, oil, and pet
waste are swept up in runoff, gliding over non-
permeable surfaces like roadways, driveways and
parking lots and into storm drains and other struc-
tures that lead to lakes, rivers and the ocean. Con-
taminated stormwater, which unlike wastewater,
which does not get the same level of treatment be-
fore heading into open water, is now the top culprit
responsible for water pollution in Massachusetts.

In Boxford, MVPC revised and streamlined the Storm-
water Inspector mobile application for the town. The
Stormwater Inspector provides a mobile-accessible
and desktop application to inventory and manage the
stormwater (drainage) infrastructure. The locations
of features associated with the system along with Stormwater Mobile Application
field observations and sampling results are all stored
in the application.

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