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Improving Your Construction Site. Ryan Alltop, CPESC, DECI Construction Division Manager. Overview. Know the Regulators Know the Regulations Follow the Regulations and your SWPPP Manage Your Subcontractors During Construction Modification Stabilize Signoff. Know The Regulators.
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Improving Your Construction Site Ryan Alltop, CPESC, DECI Construction Division Manager
Overview • Know the Regulators • Know the Regulations • Follow the Regulations and your SWPPP • Manage Your Subcontractors • During Construction Modification • Stabilize • Signoff
Know The Regulators • National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) -Construction Activities USEPA • 327 IAC 15-5 Administered by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management • Local Regulations by MS4s and SWCDs
Know The Regulations • SWPPP Submitted to IDEM and MS4 • Public Notice Given • Notice of Intent (NOI) – Must show proof of SWPPP and Public notice. Image from Fanpop.com
Know The Regulations • 70 percent cover for areas not being worked on for 15 days. • Inspections every week or within the first business day after a measurable storm event (.5 inches) • Notice of Termination (NOT) • NOT may only be submitted after a Perennial Stand of Vegetation having 70 percent or greater coverage has been established.
Follow The Regulations and Your SWPPP • Inspect your site at the correct time. • During rainstorms or immediately after. • Driest day in July won’t tell you much. • Improve your BMPs, and Modify or Switch BMPs that don’t work • Update your SWPPP • Avoid offsite discharge of sediment
Manage Your Contractors • If something will effect your bottom line make it effect theirs • Teach them about your SWPPP and how it effects them • Let them know your expectations while they are on your site
During Construction Modification • If it is Broken Fix it!
Sign Off • Submit Your Notice of Termination • Must Have 70 Percent Permanent Perennial Vegetative Cover • Remove temporary sediment control BMPs
Questions? Ryan Alltop Construction Division Manager ENCAP, Inc. 2585 Wagner Ct., DeKalb, IL 60115 815-748-4500 ENCAP, Inc. 772 North Madison St. Crown Point, IN 46307