Complete the GreenStep Municipal Stormwater Management Assessment.
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Report your assessment (%) score (between 1 and 100 percent). |
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Score between 60 and 79 percent. |
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Score 80 percent or above; previously recognized on the Leader Board of the Blue Star Award program. |
- The GreenStep Cities Municipal Stormwater Management Assessment (PDF) asks 45 questions that assess the degree to which your city is taking both simple and innovative actions to improve stormwater management, improve water quality, and adapt to climate change in Minnesota. Questions in this tool cover broad green infrastructure areas that are generally not covered by government regulatory programs. After completing this questionnaire, a score between 1 and 100 percent will be reported. A second score, based on your answers to 23 questions related to resilience to climate change, will also be reported.
Taking this assessment and receiving a score can be used in several ways:
(1) To quickly learn about a wide range of stormwater management options, via the questions and associated informational links to the MPCA’s Stormwater Manual site
(2) To see Minnesota Cities' collective stormwater management efforts
(3) To gather a baseline measure of actions, and to compare that to a subsequent year (which could be 2 or 3 years later) when you retake the assessment
(4) To report your score, and subsequent improvement, to community members and to your city council
(5) To claim credit for the GreenStep best practice # 17, under BP action 17.2
(6) To claim credit for GreenStep Metric # 9, which is required for recognition at Step 4 and Step 5 in the GreenStep Cities program. 9.1 Stormwater Assessment Score (%) and 9.2 Climate Adaptation Stormwater Score (%).
- The MN Stormwater Assessment is built upon and replaces Friends of the Mississippi River's Blue Star Award Program.
- Though developed in Wisconsin, covering somewhat different topics than the GreenStep assessment, and focusing on city policies, cities may find it useful to review questions in Tackling Barriers to Green Infrastructure: An Audit of Local Codes and Ordinances (University of Wisconsin: 2016).