Hurricane Season 2021
Analysis of the last 150 years identifies the most active month for hurricanes making landfall is September, then August and October are a close seco
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Demystifying your Dewatering Permit
When applying for your Construction Generic Permit (CGP) to discharge stormwater on construction sites, it’s important to know if dewatering will b
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NPDES Compliance and COVID-19
Perhaps the biggest question in the environmental sector right now is: how, has COVID-19 affected enforcement? The EPA offered a Temporary Enforcement
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Storm Events – What They Are & How to Tackle Them
One of the most important requirements of your Construction Generic Permit (CGP) is the NPDES Stormwater Inspections. In the State of Florida, NPDES i
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Secondary Containment on Construction Sites
One of the requirements of the Florida CGP, Construction Generic Permit, that seems to elude many of its permittees is secondary containment. Maybe
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The Why on NPDES Inspections
In the state of Florida construction projects that impact over an acre of land are required to perform NPDES inspections once a week and for every h
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Don’t Be a Bad [Concrete Plant] Batch!
Concrete batching plants use equipment to produce concrete and concrete products by batching or mixing cements and other raw materials. The component
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Sheet and Rill and Gully, Oh My!
With the proper use of erosion control and stabilization measures as defined in the Construction Generic Permit (CGP), your construction site can be p
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Beginners Guide to Liquid Waste
It is no secret that construction sites often get very chaotic at times. With the high volume of activity, messes are bound to occur on site! At first
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The Air We Breathe
With any construction site, there is potential for contaminated air particles or particle pollution, also known as particle matter (PM), to travel thr
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