Part 5 - Good Housekeeping

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Part 5 - Good Housekeeping
Preventing Stormwater Pollution at Your Public
Works Facility A 5-Part Workshop Series
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Training Modules

1. Why Stormwater Matters ?
2. What is a SWPPP? ?
3. Spill Prevention Response ?
4. Materials Management ?
5. Good Housekeeping

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Good Housekeeping

• Operations

• Runoff Management

• Preventive Maintenance

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Operations
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Move operations indoors or under roof

• Vehicle maintenance repair
• Vehicle washing
• Requires individual permit

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Move operations indoors or under roof

• Waste storage
• Waste fluids
• Dumpster

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Move operations indoors or under roof
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Sweep/vacuum paved surfaces
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Sweep/vacuum paved surfaces
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Pick up litter debris
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Dispose of waste materials properly in
appropriate locations
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Runoff Management
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Follow the flow
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Minimize run on
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Diversion
Waterway
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Minimize run off
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Install basins
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Stabilize outfalls
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Sheet flow from impervious areas to vegetated
buffer
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Biofilter/bioremediation
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Preventive Maintenance
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Inspect clean structural BMPs

• Gutters downspouts
• Inlets

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Inspect clean

• Discharge points
• Structures

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Inspect outdoor storage areas

• Cover prior to rain
• Monitor vehicles equipment for leaks

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Erosion sediment control

• Regularly inspect unpaved areas for signs of
  erosion
• Run-on
• Concentrated flow

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Erosion sediment control

• Stabilize unpaved areas with
• Vegetation or
• Mulch

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Erosion sediment control

• Avoid over-irrigation of landscaping

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Erosion sediment control

• Remove accumulated sediment

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Preventive Maintenance

• How often is periodic or regular?

• As scheduled by Operations Maintenance plans
• When need is noted
• Minimum once a year
• Tie to annual SWPPP inspection

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Public Works Facility Operations Maintenance
for Stormwater Management Employee Training

• Brought to you by

This program was developed by the Southern Rhode
Island Conservation District in partnership with
the URI Cooperative Extension RI NEMO Program and
the Rhode Island T2 Center. Funding was provided
by the RI Department of Environmental Management
and the RI Department of Transportation under the
Phase II Stormwater Education and Outreach
Program.
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Exercise!

• Conduct a SWPPP Inspection of the facility