The excavator’s already on site. The dirt’s been ordered. The crew is staged and ready to break ground Monday morning — and then somebody asks, “Did we file the NOI?” Silence. Followed by a scramble. If you’ve ever watched a project stall because nobody handled the stormwater paperwork, you already know why this matters. A…
It’s 8 a.m. and the site superintendent is standing at the edge of a half-graded lot, watching a low spot fill with muddy water from last night’s storm. The silt fence downslope is bowing under the load, the inspector is due at 10 a.m., and somewhere in the plan set there’s a note calling for…
It’s 6:45 a.m. the morning after a heavy overnight storm, and the site superintendent is standing at the edge of a graded slope watching a plume of muddy runoff cut a channel straight toward the storm drain at the property line. The silt fence along the perimeter is still standing, but it’s been overtopped, and…
If you’re getting ready to break ground on a project that involves any earthwork — grading, clearing, excavating — someone on your team has probably mentioned a SWPPP. Maybe it came up during permit review, or your GC asked for it before they’d let you on site. Either way, if you’re not sure what a…