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Managing Project Compliance
Monitoring of active and semi-active job sites to ensure they comply with their storm-water discharge permits.
Sometimes, a developer or manager can’t be on-site every single day. In these situations, sub-contractors may be creating situations of liability for the developer by not properly following the erosion, sedimentation and pollution control plans that had been approved. Hydrologic will inspect active sites once a week or within 24 hours of a ½” rainfall event and in the event of a non-compliant work site, we’ll produce a report including pictures and send it to the relevant manager.
The flipside of having a monitor is the building of a court case – sometimes, a project follows all the rules and still gets sued. A downstream landowner erroneously thinks pollution entering his property is coming or came from your project. A bad actor sees a big development and sees a potential payout from a frivolous lawsuit. A municipality who thinks you have violated some aspect of your permit or regulations.
Having an active monitoring service, provided by an objective 3rd party entity, provides you the evidence you need to protect yourself. Think of a monitor as building a court case before knowing if you’ll need it. If you don’t need it, great. But if a legal procedure occurs, you can’t go back in time and do the monitoring. If you’ve been monitoring, then you have high-resolution images, water testing results, etc., all of which can exonerate a project and its management from liabilities.
