Create your own stormwater management plan?

[Nick Heil]

Just curious if anyone has any experience creating their own storm water management plans?

I own a 10.55 acre farm field in PA where I'm looking to put down a large gravel pad. I will use the pad to park portable storage units to rent. In this town, if you want to put a gravel pad down that exceeds 5,000 square feet you need a storm water management plan. Luckily, the field is already quite flat.

I'm having a survey done on the property, so I will have that to work from. Engineering quotes were outrageous for creating the plan and if I understand correctly I don't think they are rocket science.

The founder of Spanx was able to figure out a way to write her own patents, so I'm hoping I can figure out how to create my own storm water management plan for putting down a basic gravel pad.

Thanks everyone!

[Ronald Rohde]

How much time do you have to learn about runoff? If you want to learn about the engineering, I'd say go ahead. You can learn, file, pay fees, get rejected, re-apply as many times as you want.

Just because it doesn't appear complicated, doesn't mean its easy. There is still plenty of math calculations here...