Need help with your Industrial Storm Water Permit ? You've come to the right place!
Being in violation of your Industrial Storm Water Plan can be a very serious thing indeed. Enforcement in Houston and Harris County has recently stepped up. Are you prepared for a potential site audit? Here's how you know!
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The History of the Texas Industrial Storm Water Permit
The Texas Industrial Storm Water Permit Was Renewed on August 14, 2006.Late last year, the TCEQ (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality) passed the newest revision to the General Industrial Permit (MSGP TXR050000). There are over 4,000 permits filed in the Greater Houston metro area!
There has been a significant increase in regulator activity since the first of year Especially in Harris County, the City of Houston, and the 7 surrounding counties
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A quick checklist on permit compliance
If you are not currently complying with the industrial permit you could be subjecting yourself of fines up to 12,500 a day! If you aren't doing the following, you are probably not compliant!
- Have you Submitted your NOI for the New Permit? The new permit went active on August 14th of 2006. Every industrial permit holder is required to file a new NOI under the new permit.
- Have you performed your Required Quarterly Monitoring? Virtually all facilities covered under the Multi Sector General Permit (MSGP) are required to perform visual monitoring and site inspections every quarter. Even if the site is in great shape, not having properly filled out inspections can cause your site to fail an audit!
- Have you done the required testing on your storm water runoff? Most of the industrial facilities that the MSGP applies to are required to perform testing on the water discharging from the site on a semi-annual basis. These results must also be submitted to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) annually. Did you send in your sampling results from Q4 2006?
- Is your Storm Water Pollution Plan up to date with completed logs and updated drainage plans? The Industrial Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan sitting in your site office is not just a great bookend! It should be updated at the very least on a quarterly basis to reflect new site conditions, spill events, or other changes to the plan. Is your site up to date and documented well enough to withstand an audit?
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Fines from the TCEQ since February 2007
This is a list of the amount of fines handed down by the TCEQ since February. Don't become a member of this growing list!
Source: TCEQ
Source: TCEQ
- February 22, 2007 : $268,241
- March 7, 2007: $280,311
- March 28, 2007: $319,226
- April 11, 2007: $454,250
- April 25, 2007: $619,176
- May 9, 2007 $473,331
Industrial Storm Water Resources in Texas
- cleanwaterclearchoice.com
- Clean Water Clear Choice has a lot of public education articles and downloadable forms.
- Home Page - Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - www.tceq.state.tx.us
- The home page of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality links to information about the TCEQ and its rules, permits, compliance and enforcement information, calendar, publications, forms, hot topics, employment, news releases, and the Natural Outlook - the TCEQ's quarterly publication of envir
- Storm Water Solutions
- Turnkey SWPPP and Storm Water Permit and Program Management for the Greater Houston and 7 surrounding county area.
- Industrial Storm Water Multi-Sector General Permit - Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - www.tceq.state.tx.us
- Individual permits and general permits for industries from the TCEQ
Services Provided by Storm Water Solutions
Some of the Services Storm Water Solutions Provides
Don't let yourself get regulated out of business. Don't pull your hair out trying to keep up with the latest regulations either! We specialize in managing all aspects of Storm Water compliance for industrial facilities including:- Writing your Industrial Storm Water Pollution Plan and keeping it up to date.
Creating and maintaining your overall Storm Water Drainage Site Map.
Required Quarterly Inspections
All required Water Quality Testing
Required Annual Site Compliance Evaluations
Assistance with Regulators including violations and citations.
Designing a program that is easy to use, implement, and document while being fully compliant
If you have any questions about your Storm Water Plan or any of the services we can offer you, please feel free to send us an email at jdillon AT stormwatersolutions DOT com. We would be happy to answer any questions you have.
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