WATER - STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PLANNING

Toothman-Orton has provided stormwater management planning for a variety of private and municipal clients. Our key personnel possess a wide range of stormwater management experience in stormwater quality and quantity management and regularly attend continuing education courses and seminars. Our combination of in-house engineering and landscape architecture provides us with a thorough level of understanding stormwater issues from a structural and vegetative perspective.

Toothman-Orton routinely provides the following stormwater management services; inventory of existing drainage basins and facilities; identification of substandard facilities; identification of potential sources of erosion and sedimentation or other water pollutants; analysis of drainage basins from water quality and quantity standpoint to identifying potential regional Best Management Practice (BMP) sites; preliminary engineering and cost estimating to assist municipalities with grant applications and budgetary concerns; development of drainage management guidelines to be used by communities to identify acceptable stormwater practices for future development; development and implementation of groundwater and surface water quality monitoring programs; evaluation of surface water runoff and drainage; defining BMP techniques to be implemented in specific situations to meet NPDES requirements for construction activities; addressing sediment and erosion control; phosphorus removal; and project construction revegetation and post-development revegetation BMP.

In addition to the above stormwater management services, Toothman-Orton regularly provides design and construction management services to our clients for grading, drainage, erosion and sediment control, and retention and detention.

Recent stormwater projects undertaken by Toothman-Orton include the following:

• Boise State University Drainage Study, Boise, Idaho
• City of McCall Stormwater Facilities Plan, McCall, Idaho
• Idaho State Correctional Institution Entrance Road Reconstruction, Boise, Idaho
• Capitol Mall Parking Lot, Boise, Idaho
• State Parking Lot, Washington & Sixth Street, Boise, Idaho
• BSU Student Union Parking Lot, Boise, Idaho
• BUS University Stadium Parking Lot, Boise, Idaho
• ACHD - On Call Storm Drainage Consultant Services:
  • Maplewood Storm Drainage Improvement
  • 16th Street Storm Drain (Hayes Street to Front Street)
  • Franklin Street & 17th Street - Ressequie Street & 18th Street
• Surprise Valley Subdivision, Boise, Idaho
• Spring Mountain Ranch Planned Unit Development, McCall, Idaho
• Hidden Springs Planned Community, Ada County, Idaho