Some Huntersville parking lots and floodplains have gone green to protect our creeks!

Storm Water Services, with the cooperation of private businesses and the Town of Huntersville, is working to reduce water pollution and protect the source of Charlotte-Mecklenburg's drinking water.

Storm water BMPs have been added to:

• Northcross Shopping Center
• Carolinas Medical Center-Northcross
• Northcross Commons 
• Northpointe Executive Park
• Monteith Park subdivision

All are near Interstate 77, Highway 73 (Sam Furr Road) and US 21 (Statesville Road.)  Runoff from the five sites flows into Caldwell Station Creek or Torrence Creek, then into McDowell Creek.

Rain garden at Northcross Shopping Center

Storm Water Services is using engineering and landscaping techniques (BMPs) to manage and clean storm water at the five sites. Rain gardens and wetland berms have been retrofitted into the existing developments.

Tour the BMPs.   

May 2008 News Release Cost: $1,900,000 (estimated) Sources of Funding: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Services--$773,950 North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund--$839,000  North Carolina DENR 319 Program--$287,050 Project Schedule: Planning and Design—Completed November 2006 AMEC Construction—2008    Rain Gardens—March through June 2008    LJ, Inc.        Subcontractors: Land Mechanics                                  Habitat Assessment & Restoration Program (HARP)    Wetland Berms—Spring through Fall 2008    Harvest Environmental Services, Inc.         Subcontractor: HARP Project Manager: David Woodie, P.E. 704-336-3873