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A water quality buffer zone is a strip of undisturbed native vegetation, either original or re-established, that borders streams and rivers, ponds, lakes and wetlands. Water quality buffer zones are most effective when storm water runoff is flowing into and through them as shallow sheet flow, rather than in concentrated form such as in channels, gullies, splays, or wet weather conveyances. It's critical that the design of any development include management practices, to the maximum extent practical, that will result in storm water runoff flowing into and through the buffer zone as shallow sheet flow.
Water quality buffer zones protect the physical and ecological integrity of water bodies from surrounding upland activities in these ways:
▪ Filtering excess amounts of sediment, organic material, nutrients, and other chemicals;
▪ Reducing storm runoff velocities;
▪ Providing flood protection;
▪ Protecting channel bank areas from scour and erosion;
▪ Providing shade for cooling adjacent water; which allows waters to hold a greater level of dissolved oxygen;
▪ Providing leaf litter and large woody debris important to aquatic organisms; and
▪ Improving stream bank habitat for aquatic organisms
Management of the water quality buffer zone includes specific limitations on alteration of the natural conditions. The following practices and activities are restricted within the water quality buffer zone, except with prior approval by the City of Spring Hill Storm Water Coordinator
Public Works Director
Tyler Scroggins
(931) 451-0244
Assistant Public Works Director
Chris Dugan
(931) 451-0895
Stormwater Superintendent
Winston Walters
(615) 695-5519
Office
3893 Mahlon Moore Road
Spring Hill, TN 37174
Monday - Friday
7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.