Cheektowaga, NY Environmental Rules: Stormwater Management (2026)

Section 209-7A of Chapter 209 makes SWPPP approval a gateway requirement: no application for approval of a land development activity will be reviewed until the Town Engineer has received a stormwater pollution prevention plan meeting the chapter's specifications. Under § 209-4B, the Town Engineer reviews every plan directly, may hire a registered professional engineer to review it at the applicant's cost under a Town fee schedule, or may accept a licensed professional's certification of compliance. Projects disturbing five or more acres, discharging to an impaired waterway, or disturbing one to five acres outside single-family and agricultural construction must also include postconstruction water quantity and quality controls under § 209-7B(2)-(3), including hydrologic analysis and a maintenance easement binding future owners.

Section 209-9B requires a recorded maintenance easement before any approval conditioned on a stormwater facility, giving the Town access for periodic inspection, and § 209-9A requires sediment to be removed from traps or ponds once design capacity drops by half, with qualified-professional inspections every seven days during active construction on larger projects.