Manage your Weather Compliance with Existing Technology We’ve been talking about weather a lot lately, mostly because now is the time when it’s starting to rain for many people. We’re going to do it one more time, but this time I want to talk about how to leverage existing forms of technology to manage your […]
Category: Stormwater
5 Things You Need from Your Weather Service Introduction For obvious reasons, stormwater regulations have a lot to do with precipitation in its various forms. In our experience, it’s also where people struggle the most with their compliance efforts. There are a variety of methods and tools out there to gather and sort your weather
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Do You Need an On-site Rain Gauge? Let’s talk about some myths and misconceptions about rain gauges and why you may need one on your site, but you should try to get rid of it if it’s possible. Rain gauges were once a staple of the stormwater industry, but we get asked a lot if
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Words From a Female Stormwater Inspector In honor of Women’s History Month, I wanted to learn about the experiences of women in the stormwater industry, so I interviewed a female inspector at a stormwater inspection consulting company in Utah. I was interested in exploring her personal story to see if it reflected statistics I had
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Map Updating Considerations You May Not Have Thought of We’ve talked about the items that need to be updated on the SWPPP map and the importance of keeping the map up to date. A good SWPPP map is only good if it is usable, so let’s go through a few additional considerations to help your
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SWPPP Map – Does it Reflect Current Site Conditions? Carrying on with our theme of SWPPP maps and their importance, let’s talk about the most important question to ask yourself each time you look at the SWPPP map. Does it reflect current site conditions? If the answer to this question is no, you aren’t using
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Critical SWPPP Map Updates – What do you update? The SWPPP Map is a critical inspection tool to make sure that BMPs are in place and inspections are covering all the appropriate areas of concern. To ensure the SWPPP map proves as useful as it can be, it needs to be constantly updated to match
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It’s 2021 – Ditch the Paper Form and Clipboard Already! If you are still using a paper form to fill out your environmental inspections, you are WORKING TOO HARD! It’s 2021, and there’s like a 99.9% chance you are carrying a smartphone in your pocket. (I made up that percentage, but I’ll bet you do!)
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Leverage Your Phone to Improve Your Stormwater Inspections As the year 2021 begins, and considering all of the workplace changes due to the current Covid-19 pandemic, it is a good time for stormwater inspectors to consider how efficient and effective you are with your current tools. Outdated paper methods for managing stormwater plans, inspections, corrective
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Does your Construction Project Pass the Stormwater “Eyeball Test”? No construction company wants to receive a fine or stop work order because their site is out of compliance. Often, additional scrutiny on construction sites comes because of what a passing citizen or regulatory official sees. By making sure your project passes the “eyeball test” of
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