A marketplace concept for trading stormwater retention credits between commercial property owners
RainRight Exchange is an early-stage prototype exploring a compliance marketplace for MS4 NPDES permit programs. The idea: commercial property owners who generate stormwater retention credits through green infrastructure — bioswales, green roofs, permeable pavement — can trade those credits with properties that need to offset impervious surface runoff. The target users are municipal compliance officers and commercial property managers operating under EPA stormwater discharge permits.
- Browse and list stormwater retention credits tied to specific parcels
- Credit generation based on green infrastructure type and impervious surface area
- Parcel-level data model aligned to MS4 NPDES permit structures
- Basic marketplace UI for credit discovery and transaction initiation
- Draft scaffolding for EPA Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) export
None yet. GIS impervious surface data ingestion and live EPA DMR submission are planned but not wired up in the current prototype.
This is a single-application prototype, currently structured as a frontend interface with a lightweight backend stub. No production database or external data pipelines are connected. The codebase is organized around the core domain objects — parcels, credits, and permit holders — to validate the data model before deeper infrastructure is added.
🧪 Early prototype / concept. Not production-ready.
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