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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you have a quote for this? "Stormwater Management Plan"
I believe this is one of the most costly things in new construction/additions.[/quote]

Creating the SWM [i]plan[/i] was part of the larger 15K that we paid to the engineer for all of the various engineering work completed. The cost of actually executing the plan was one of the larger line items in our site prep budget.  But, it gets hard to separate out what was done just for SWM vs what was done for general grading/site prep overall.

You can read the State of MD requirements for stormwater at: https://mde.maryland.gov/programs/Water/StormwaterManagementProgram/Documents/Residential%20SP3.pdf

The total bill for putting the SWM in place is highly dependent on the features of the land itself, the size of the build and the surrounding land.  For example, one requirement is that runoff doesn't go onto a neighbors property.  Our runoff for the front half of the property is channeled to the street, which itself is a direct conduit to a runoff/retention pond that already exists & was created for that purpose, in the neighborhood.

The other side of our property required a retention wall to mitigate runoff--at least, that's what our engineer first told us.  Building a retention wall is big bucks.  But our builder stepped in and recommended a berm + slight slope change when grading (which we were doing anyway)--so much less expensive than a wall and accepted by the county as acceptable.

Our total bill for SWM + homesite grading was 22K[/quote]

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