KPDES Stormwater Inspection Examples: How to think like an inspector of stormwater

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KPDES Stormwater Inspection Examples How to
think like an inspector of stormwater

• By L. Peyton Adams
• Madisonville Regional Office
• Kentucky Division of Water

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What is wrong with this stormwater site?
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The above has a blue line stream with a check dam
inside the blue line stream. Flow is from left to
right. What is wrong with this BMP? The arrows
show the edge of the stream channel.
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What is wrong with this BMP? Note steep slopes,
and unprotected inlet to subsurface drain.
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What is wrong with the BMP? Creek is to the
right. What would you be asking to see if you
were the inspector?
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If there are 3 inches of air under a silt fence
what is wrong with this BMP?
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What is wrong with this BMP? My back is to the
creek.
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Just so you are paying attention, this is a couch
on a 20 foot pile of chicken manure. What is the
first thing you think of as a stormwater
inspector? Other than are there teenagers with
too much time on their hands?
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As an inspector doing a BMP review, what do you
see? Creek is the tree line.
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As an inspector what do you write up for the
inspection?
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What is wrong with this BMP?
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What is wrong with this construction site photo
for BMP controls?
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What is wrong with this construction sites BMP?
Arrow to ash.
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Drainage to creek with two straw bales. What do
you notice?
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What is wrong with this BMP? The creek is to the
left. Arrow at gully under silt fence.
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What would you say about this silt fence at a
construction site? What would you say if the
drinking water lake was behind you.
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What would you ask to see regarding this silt
fence area in documentation? Flow is from left to
right.
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What would you say about this sites BMP?
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What would you write up as an inspector regarding
this BMP?
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Example of a winner using vegetative cover. This
was once a steep, clay mine full of wood chips,
and now has lush grass cover and clear runoff.
Example of a NOT site with a winning permit BMP!