Don’t Let Stormwater Run Off With Your Money and Our Community!
What Builders need to know about managing Stormwater in KENNETT SQUARE BOROUGH
The construction industry plays an important role in improving our community’s quality of life by
protecting our streams and rivers through smart business practices that prevent pollution from leaving construction sites. Here’s what you need to do:
1. Comply with stormwater permit requirements.
2. Use erosion and sediment controls and practice pollution prevention to keep construction sites “clean.”
3. Conduct advance planning and training to ensure control measures are functioning and well maintained.
Permit Requirements for Construction Activity
· Pennsylvania’s Erosion and Sediment Control Pollution Program (25 Pa. Code, Chapter 102) requires Erosion and Sediment Control Plans for all earth disturbance activities.
· The national Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit Program (25 Pa. Code, Chapter 92) requires that construction activities disturbing greater than one acre submit a Notice of Intent for coverage under a general NPDES permit. The Chester County Conservation District reviews plans for these sites.
Planning is Nice, But…
You’re carefully laid plans and permit compliance will be quickly undone without training and supervision. If you don’t make regular inspections of your controls, you can’t expect your employees to take it seriously – and that leads to violations which hit you in the wallet.
· Teach people to treat the stormwater controls like they would any other tool of their trade. If it’s well maintained it will function properly.
· Don’t allow a “shortcut” mentality. If a job’s worth doing it’s worth doing right
For More Information
BOROUGH OF KENNETT SQUARE, 610-444-6020
Chester County Conservation District, 610-696-5126
PA Handbook of Best Management Practices for Developing Areas
www.pacd.org/products/bmp_handbook.html
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection , 610-250-5970
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