The City of Oxford experiences flooding throughout the city during heavy, unnamed, non-tropical rain events. During these flooding events, public works staff cannot access critical infrastructure at the wastewater treatment plant. The city began to prioritize stormwater management over the past few years including stormwater mitigation efforts along Goshen Street. Golden LEAF flood mitigation grant funds were used to map stormwater infrastructure within the entire jurisdiction and perform modeling along sub-basins west and parallel to College Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue to create a stormwater master plan. Additional data collection, modeling of existing watersheds, and the development of concept plans and alternatives were also completed. The city plans to use the data acquired from this project for future stormwater improvement grant opportunities and to prioritize projects funded by their stormwater utility fund. The entire city benefited from this project.
