If I’ve said it once, I must have said it 3 or 4 times: “Keep your tires clean!”. Who wants to use a tire wash and have to get rid of a whole lot of dirty water (process water) that can’t go down the storm drain? Save yourself some hassle and money. Give your employees a raise with the money you save. Make sure your trucks are loaded when on asphalt.
In this video, the contractor is using a sandbag berm to contain high pH water so they can collect it.
This video shows Tree Protection Using Orange Safety Fence.
Managing Construction Runoff on Concrete Tiltup Building Project- I shot this video to show ways to manage stormwater runoff when you have acres of concrete and asphalt. This was a bus maintenance building project that we completed about 8 years ago.
Walking around South Congress district south of downtown Austin, I discovered a new best management practice-horizontal silt fence. This makes access to the work area so much easier than if vertical silt fence was used.
Download: Guide to Handling Fugitive Dust from Construction Projects.PDF
The classic brochure developed in 1997 by the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Washington Education Foundation and the Fugitive Dust Task Force, Seattle, Washington. Updated and edited for the Internet by: www.sheetflow.com, February 2009.
Construction Erosion Inspection Hog Fuel Mulch Prevents Fugitive Dust – You are hauling dirt on a dry day and the dust is flying.
The water truck driver’s head is about to explode trying to keep up with the dust control.
Save yourself a Labor and Industries claim!
Use ground up vegetation (hog fuel)! Don’t haul it to the landfill.
Download: Guide to Handling Fugitive Dust from Construction Projects.PDF
So, you don’t want to use a tire wash, with all the costs and hassles associated with them…KEEP YOUR TIRES CLEAN and you won’t need one.
Here’s how:
This shows step by step instructions for a creek diversion when working in a salmon-bearing stream including:
setting up fish screens,
electroshocking fish,
diversion pumping,
and sand bag dams.
Construction Site Stormwater Runoff Control
Poorly maintained BMPs can result in significant quantities of sediment being discharged to storm drains. Uncontrolled storm water runoff from construction sites can significantly impact rivers, lakes and estuaries. Sediment in water bodies from construction sites can reduce the amount of sunlight reaching aquatic plants, clog fish gills, smother aquatic habitat and spawning areas, and impede navigation.
Phase II MS4s are required to develop a program to reduce pollutants in stormwater runoff to the MS4 for construction sites disturbing one or more acres. This primarily includes developing:
An ordinance,
Requirements to implement erosion and sediment control best managment practices (BMPs),
Requirements to control other waste at the construction site,
Procedures for reviewing construction site plans,
Procedures to receive and consider information submitted by the public, and
Procedures for inspections and enforcement of stormwater requirements at construction sites.
In addition to the stormwater requirements that Phase II MS4s place on construction sites, construction operators must also apply for NPDES permit coverage if their project disturbs at least one acre and discharges to a waterbody.
A description of these requirements is available at EPA’s stormwater construction website.
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