Vermont is looking at creating regional stormwater utilities for the first time. Currently, Vermont does not have general purpose county government and our Conservation Districts have mostly stayed out of regulatory clean water issues, working instead in the non-regulatory space, so I'm wondering how other states do this. A few questions:

1. Do any Conservation Districts themselves either serve as regional stormwater utilities or host them?
2. If not hosting the stormwater utility directly, do any Conservation Districts partner with stormwater utilities or receive funding from them (for example, for outreach and education or technical assistance)?
3. For districts that are part of MS4 compliance, does that work intersect at all with stormwater utilities? And what does that partnership/workflow look like?

This is an area I don't have a lot of experience in, so any thoughts about what works or doesn't work for Conservation Districts in the regulatory clean water space around stormwater management would be really helpful.

Thanks!

Clare