Stormwater

Auburn Hills is fortunate to have the Clinton River and numerous lakes and streams. Understanding and mitigating stormwater pollution is crucial for preserving these resources. Protecting Auburn Hills' waterways from stormwater pollution is a community effort. Explore this page to learn how you can contribute to cleaner water. To report pollution, contact the Department of Public Works at 248-391-3777.

Low Impact Development

Clean water resources are the key economic advantage of the City of Auburn Hills and surrounding communities, and the prosperity of Michigan. Proper stormwater management is an important component of water quality protection. Low Impact Development (LID) is a way to address the public’s interest in protecting water resources and the private sector’s interest in fostering economic growth.

LID uses a basic principle modeled after nature: manage rainfall by using design techniques that infiltrate, filter, store, use, evaporate, and detain runoff closest the source. LID provides stormwater benefits, such as groundwater recharge and cleaner streams, increases the urban forest, reduces the urban heat island effect, improves air quality, reduces thermal loading in streams, and enhances communities by making water resources a focal point that residents value. In short, LID reduces the impacts of stormwater while treating stormwater as a precious resource, not as waste.

The City of Auburn Hills encourages all to implement LID practices to protect our valued natural resources.