Supporting Developers, Engineers & Environmental Resource Managers
Green Infrastructure/Low Impact Development & Water Quality
Green Infrastructure/Low Impact Development & Water Quality (GI/LID & WQ)
When precipitation and storm events occur over highways, parking lots, buildings, and other hardened or impervious surfaces, the resulting stormwater runoff will carry debris, sediment, solvents, petroleum products, chemicals, and other pollutants into our water sources, diminishing their quality. Section 404 of the Clean Water Act requires each state to implement and enforce minimum standards designed to achieve the federally mandated Water Quality targets. Each state and municipality create laws and local ordinances to ensure that your site will meet the standard. Many states and local issuing Authorities are even more stringent than the federal standard. Failing to account for it will keep your project from obtaining a permit from the local Engineering Department, Department of Public Works, Local Issuing Authorities, etc., and failing to maintain it throughout the span of your project's permit will cause your site to be issued Notices of Violation and/or Stop Work Orders.
For these reasons, understanding how to approach your site's impact to our collective Water Quality is a vital part of the development process. Any design for any project meeting the local threshold requirements, will require careful planning to avoid, minimize, and mitigate potential impacts to the community and natural environment's overall Water Quality. Being able to nimbly adapt an everchanging project site to developing weather conditions can be an artform, all on its own.
Commitment to Green Infrastructure & Low Impact Development
QALC³ is committed to implementing a comprehensive range of low impact development approaches that cater to your project site's unique demands. Our team of experts is here to help you understand, utilize, adapt and maintain GI/LID & WQ approaches and devices to target and achieve the highest possible Water Quality.
QALC³ Site WQ Analytics
Don't Be a Bad Neighbor
Illicit Discharge Investigations
Don't Be a Bad Neighbor
Don't let the water leaving your site's outfall structure look like the water on the left (above) when it enters the nearest stream, on the right.
Per Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and depending on the duration and volume of rainfall in a given event, that's how a project site becomes a Point Source of Pollution.
This makes any project
Don't let the water leaving your site's outfall structure look like the water on the left (above) when it enters the nearest stream, on the right.
Per Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and depending on the duration and volume of rainfall in a given event, that's how a project site becomes a Point Source of Pollution.
This makes any project vulnerable to enforcement actions, such as Notices of Violations and Stop Work Orders.
Let us help you avoid the delays these actions cause and adapt your design concept and/or site conditions to achieve and maintain the highest possible quality for the water leaving your site.
Comprehensive Analysis
Illicit Discharge Investigations
Don't Be a Bad Neighbor
We can arrive and asses the quality of the water leaving your site and provide information that might help the development team or contractor make determinations and facilitate quicker onsite adaptations, based on pending weather or enforcement conditions.
Illicit Discharge Investigations
Illicit Discharge Investigations
Illicit Discharge Investigations
Illicit Discharge or IDDE (Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination) Investigations are sometimes necessary when a contractor, inspector, or member of the public notices something suspicious looking in the waters on or leaving a project site, especially in dry flow weather conditions. Whether you're just wanting to understand what you
Illicit Discharge or IDDE (Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination) Investigations are sometimes necessary when a contractor, inspector, or member of the public notices something suspicious looking in the waters on or leaving a project site, especially in dry flow weather conditions. Whether you're just wanting to understand what you're seeing, determine the source, or looking for the solution, we can help.