Anne Arundel County Full Delivery of Water Quality Improvements "Turnkey" Program

About the Program

Category: County Resiliency (Best in Category)

Year: 2022

Anne Arundel County’s Bureau of Watershed Protection & Restoration (BWPR) implemented its Full Delivery of Water Quality Improvements (“Turnkey”) Program in 2017 to expedite the process of restoring our local waterways and driving down costs through public-private partnerships. This program, which funds design-build-maintain contracts to private firms that result in the construction of cost-effective stormwater Best Management Practices, has become a pillar in the County’s progress toward achieving the goals of our NPDES MS-4 permit and the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) requirements. The Turnkey Program has created a resilient and cost-effective pipeline of restoration projects that ensure the County’s local tax dollars are being invested towards a sustainable future. Innovative public-private partnerships facilitated by the Turnkey Program help to expedite the process of restoring Anne Arundel County’s waterways.