A fee schedule that starts small
Mt. Juliet’s Storm Water Department handles the city’s Land Disturbance Permit, which is filed as a Certificate of Zoning Compliance. The applicant agrees to follow the city’s own NPDES stormwater permit, number TNS 075451. Signing the application commits the site to the terms of that permit, so the city’s stormwater obligations become the job’s obligations. The city’s published stormwater fee list:
- Under one acre: $250
- One to 4.99 acres: $615
- 500 acres or more: up to $18,405
- Rock crusher permit: $620
- Stockpile permit: $620
Small jobs, stockpiles and rock
Because there is a fee for sites under an acre, small jobs are on the city’s schedule. The fee page doesn’t state the exact trigger, so it’s worth asking the Storm Water Department before a small job starts. The $615 bracket runs from one acre to just under five, so a 4.5-acre site pays the same fee as a one-acre site.
Two line items stand out for site work. Crushing rock on site and keeping a soil stockpile each carry a separate $620 permit. On a job that cuts into rock, or holds fill for a later phase, those belong in the budget beside the disturbance fee. Each of them costs five dollars more than the whole disturbance fee for a one-to-five-acre site.
From Old Hickory to Percy Priest
Mt. Juliet lies between Old Hickory Lake to the north and Percy Priest Lake to the south. It nearly doubled, from 12,366 people in 2000 to 23,671 in 2010, and has claimed the title of fastest-growing city in Tennessee for 2000 to 2015. The EF3 tornado of March 3, 2020 destroyed hundreds of homes here.
Lots carved out of that growth need clearing, a graded pad and drainage that sends water where the city’s stormwater permit expects it. The permit and the fee for your site are part of the free estimate.