Looking to Get Your Long-Term Program Started? Here are a Few Ideas! We see a lot of MS4s that struggle to get their long-term stormwater management program started. Here’s a list of things that MS4s that administer and enforce these regulations are generally required to do: Create a city ordinance.Develop design standards for post-construction stormwater […]
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Do You Know Which Watershed You Are In? Do you? Because I didn’t! I didn’t even know what a watershed was before I started working with stormwater. So let’s begin by defining it. Essentially watersheds are any piece of land that water runs off of to a waterbody — which is pretty much everywhere. Therefore,
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How Does Green Infrastructure Affect Drought? As we face droughts, flooding, and other environmental extremes across the planet, managing stormwater runoff is becoming increasingly important. One group of methods we’ve found to be most effective at managing stormwater runoff is green infrastructure, the practice of mimicking the natural water infiltration process to put water where
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Simple Ways You Can Impact the Environment You’ve Never Heard Before 71% of Earth is made up of water. Water is a life source, habitat, power supplier, and refuge for every carbon-based organism on our planet. With this in mind, it is important to step back and consider if we are doing enough to protect
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Do You Know What’s Happening to Your Corrective Actions? Do you find yourself wondering if the corrective actions you identified in your inspections were completed? Or do you show up for your next inspections to find them all done, but no idea when they were completed or who did it? Do you have a system
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3 Ways You’re Wasting Time on Inspections and Don’t Even Know It Ever feel like you spend more time preparing for an inspection than doing it? Are you having trouble finding the right forms, gathering past weather data, or calling around to see if action items from the last inspection have been signed off? If
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The Best Way to Manage Your Stormwater Compliance Documentation In our world, connections between people are growing at an unprecedented rate, creating a fast-paced environment where efficiency is a constant concern. Storing documents, plans, and permits in the cloud allows you to keep them accessible 24/7 from any device. With ComplianceGO, you can keep all
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How can you manage a SWPPP properly if it’s not on the cloud? As Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans become the norm in our construction and industrial communities, proper management of these federally required documents becomes paramount in our industry. These plans contain records of the self-monitoring activity of the stakeholders involved in a project in
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The Only Tool You’ll Ever Need for Weather Compliance As the rainy season gets going for much of the U.S., we want to make sure you have the knowledge and tools you need to keep on top of your weather requirements. Whether you need forecasts or precipitation values, we have a tool that gives you
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4 Ways Hard Copies are More Costly than Electronic Copies You don’t have to drive far to see a construction project with a mailbox or lockbox with “SWPPP” scribbled on it. For some reason, the stormwater industry is one of the last to embrace emerging technologies to simplify its compliance efforts. If you look at
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