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Many of you either have post construction stormwater

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control facilities on-site. Raise your hand if you

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have one on-site. Yeah, yeah, you guys have

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one. Yep. All right, raise your hand if

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you're here just a resident to learn more

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about these facilities. Cool. Raise your hand if

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you're here because we're from the city and

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I asked youtold you. Nothing wrong. Yay, thank

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you. So this year we are requiring all

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owners of post construction stormwater controls for water

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quality to be inspected and maintained. Maintaining them

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could be a variety of different things depending

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on what kind of BMP or best management

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practice, what's installed on your site. We do

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have some engineers here that I've reviewed many

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of their plans. So yeah, we're really glad

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to have you guys. I have my inspectors

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in the back, Dan Kern, Samuel Miller, and

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Jeff Parker. They're behind you, so you may

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see them out on your facility or they

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may be the ones you guys contact us

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to have some more insight in the field

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on what your controls are, how they're supposed

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to function, if they're looking okay, if you're

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doing the proper maintenance. I left my business

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card on everyone's table, so please feel free

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to reach out. There's also a form on

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your table that if you guys could go

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ahead and fill out. It's not the inspection

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form. It's the other it's just a single

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page form. The inspection form will go through

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together at the end with some pictures to

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kind of get everyone a feel for what

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it is that they're looking at and looking

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forward, but that other forum helps us with

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tracking and reaching out for those annual inspection

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reports and operation and maintenance documents a little

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bit later in the year. Awesome. Well, you

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guys for helping protect our water quality here

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in St. Joseph. I am here with Amy

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and Caitlin, my Black and Veatch consultants, and

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they are going to go ahead and go

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through a presentation. Do you want them to

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raise their hand if they have a question

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as you're going or would you prefer? Yes,

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please interrupt me as you'd like to ask

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a question. If you're joining us from online,

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welcome. We want you to utilize the chat.

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I can see it from here and I'll

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address your question if pop it in there.

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Can they go ahead and put their contact

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info in the chat as well? Oh, yes.

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Please put your contact information in the chat

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and please tell Colleen if you have a

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stormwater detention facility. Think I she'd love to

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know that. I think that was one of

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the entry or the entry questions. And then

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please feel free to grab a snack if

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you guys need to get up and use

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the restroom or in the hallway to your

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right hand side. If anything comes up, just

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let us know. We're here to help and

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answer questions. Thank you guys. So as Colleen

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said, my name is Amy Dietz. I've been

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with Black and Veatch for about four years

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and I've been an engineer in Kansas City

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area for about twenty. And I'm here today

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to talk about stormwater protection and inspection. It's

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not enough to build. A stormwater facility. We

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also have to maintain it, make sure it's

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still working. This live training is being recorded,

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and by participating, you are consenting to being

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recorded. Fantastic. The purpose of this course, we're

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gonna go over post construction BMPs. So things

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that we've put in place to manage water

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quality and water quantity. And then just some

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common maintenance issues that we see around the

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city. We're gonna review permitting requirements and what

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the city code says we have to do,

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and then we'll review some inspection form requirements.

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And we'll let everyone into the lobby. There

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we go. So the city has an MS4

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permit, and that's defined as a municipal separate

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storm sewer system. It's operated by the city

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and it's audited by the Missouri Department of

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Natural Resources. One of the most common deficiencies

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that pops up on an audit just anywhere

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in the nation, not specifically here, is documentation.

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That's kind of one of the hardest things

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to do. We do a pretty good job

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of everything else. We're going to go over

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the types and common maintenance issues of some

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of these facilities. When I talk about post

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construction BMPs, I mean all the water quality

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things that have been built in the last

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probably ten years. And before that, we were

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still building detention basins, which do have some

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water quality benefits. So some common issues we

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see with detention ponds are beaver, rodent activity,

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potable sedimentation, scour, and invasive species. Yeah. See

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the screen. I can see the screen. Thank

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you. Okay. Glad you asked. So the picture

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in the center there is the Amur or

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bush honeysuckle. I don't know if you're familiar

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with it. It gets these lovely white blossoms

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on it, and once you know what it

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is, you start seeing it everywhere. It's not

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enough to chop it down, you have to

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poison the stump. If you look at the

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understory in the center picture here. It's there.

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Nothing lives underneath this. This is a non

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native and a pretty expensive invasive. Counties are

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spending a lot of money getting rid of

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this stuff, cutting it back, trying to trying

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to manage it. And then there's the other

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things that you might be more familiar with

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the eastern red cedars. You have a cow

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pasture, you'll see those growing real commonly in

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it. Johnson grass and Reed canary grass. They're

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a little harder to identify. I have a

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picture here somewhere, but they just kind of

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look bully and overground really tall grasses. Another

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eutrophication. That's a fancy word for saying buildup

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of nutrients. The reason this is a problem

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is that lowers the dissolved oxygen in the

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pond, which kills your fish, and significantly tanks

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your recreational ability when there's dead fish in

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your pond. This happened in Krug Park Lake.

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gotten a notification online that we're having some

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audio issues. Paul Free notified me that he

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could hear me. So I wonder if the

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problem is on your end, Lisa. Anyway, the

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Department of Natural Resources, they do track these

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harmful algal blooms. There's a website, you can

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lot of, it really is pretty harmful. It

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can harm humans, pets and wildlife. Pets are

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the most common victim of this cyanobacteria. This

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examples from Jackrabbit Lake, which is in Jackson

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County, Kansas City. And And it can happen

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here. This cyanobacteria is not, you know, not

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super rare or anything, and it can cause

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neurological or liver damage to to pets. Turn

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off the speakers. There we go. And I

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will add here, a couple of years ago,

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this happened at the Lake Of The Ozarks,

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and there were reports of a lot of

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dogs getting sick from drinking the lake water

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down there with neurological diseases and issues like

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that. So it can be pretty dangerous and

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very unsightly. No one really wants to see

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a bunch of algae sitting on top of

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a pond. It doesn't look very pretty, but

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it also can be quite harmful. There we

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go. Another common issue we see is inlet

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scour. So scour is just a fancy word

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for velocities, water erosion, or, you know, nearby

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a facility. And in this case, we have

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a loss of the inlet riprap that was

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originally meant to protect the facility. And so

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normally, you know, I don't really care if

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everything looks absolutely perfect, but this kind of

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of scour over time can lead to failure,

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failure of the you know, because it supports

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the inlet and outlet structures. Okay, there we

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go. So erosion and scour, what's the big

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deal about that? You know, this picture just

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makes me very sad because this facility is

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less than five years old. I was able

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to use Google Earth and kind of use

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the time thing and it almost immediately within

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two years it failed. Scour at the outlet

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caused if you can see my cursor, it

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caused soil loss up here and it caused

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soil loss down here where my cursor is.

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end section, you know, caused it to separate

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and fail. And as an engineer, I really

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strongly believe in blaming the contractor. But at

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this point, it doesn't matter. We, know, we

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have to maintain the facility because this is

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a brand new facility that could last for

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many, many more years if, you know, if

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we get a handle on it now, we

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certainly it's just going to get more expensive

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to maintain if this kind of thing is

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left to go. Some other common outlet scour

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that we see is this HDPE pipe is

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engineering wise, pretty fair product. It's light, the

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walls are thin, easy to handle. It all

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kind of snaps together with the end section

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here where my cursor is. But it is

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vulnerable to UV. So having this much of

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it exposed from the embankment is just not

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great for it. Where my cursor is, there's

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a big crack in the side of this

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pipe, so we're already experiencing some failure and

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whether that's due to UV damage or maybe

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perhaps it was hit by a mower, it's

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hard to say. But it really should have

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been protected from sunlight and damage with a

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little bit more riprap. In general, I like

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to see whatever the diameter of the pipe

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is. As a rule of thumb, I want

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like two and a half times whatever that

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the diameter of the pipe is. That's how

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wide I want that riprap usually at an

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outlet section. And then up around the top

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of it just to protect it from stuff

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like this. You can also see, not so

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only did they not make enough riprap on

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width wise, but I'm not sure they added

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enough length or if they did it, it

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got washed away. Because now we're seeing some

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scour at the toe right here where my

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cursor is. So this is the kind of

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thing though, that with a little bit of

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riprap and some landscaping landscape crew, we could

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address this pretty easily before the failure gets

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any worse. Certainly, you could also cut the

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pipe off here, reattach the end section and

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just back the whole thing up and then

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that crack wouldn't continue. I love this picture.

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This is beaver and muskrat damage from just

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one winter. So we see this bright, bright,

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bright white wood because there must have been

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an absolutely an army of these guys. This

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was not a St. Joseph City Park, but

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it was a city park. And boy, this

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is just a lot, a lot of damage

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to the trees. And if they don't do

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something about this beaver and muskrat damage, not

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only are they not going to have any

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trees in the wetland here, but they're also,

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when this wood dies, guess where it ends

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up? Blocks the inlet, you know, it ends

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up against the outlet structure and it creates

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more problems. Can I add something too? Oh,

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please do. Another thing with beaver and muskrat

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damage. I know of a property that had

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a huge Beaver Dam, the biggest one I've

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ever seen, and it had drained upon three

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feet back into and flooded the upland area

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of it. So it definitely can damage your

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facilities, the structures you have on your facilities.

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It definitely needs to be maintained, looked after,

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because they're really good engineers. They're really good

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at building things, and they can really wreak

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havoc on the things that we build. So

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definitely something to watch out for and just

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be aware of. So a detention pond is

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not a levy, but a lot of the

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maintenance recommendations and deficiency, you know, solutions are

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similar to a levee. So if you look

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at my picture here, we should really have

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a vegetation or I mean woody vegetation, woody

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vegetation free zone about 15 feet on either

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side of the embankment. And then the crown

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and both sides of the embankment should also

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be free of that woody vegetation. Our kind

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of standard size for having to address some

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of this is four inches. So if you

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have a wildlife burrow or a tree that's

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four inches in diameter or larger, then we

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not only need it removed, but we need

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to backfill it with something called mud pack.

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And mud packing is a solution of 90%

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soil and 10% concrete. And it's kind of

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a cure all for issues that you might

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have with your embankment. If you're seeing some

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scour, if you're seeing, you know, some embankment

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failure, if you're just, you know, noticing that

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you need to freshen your, you know, to

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stop some of the erosion that's going on,

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that's a great remedy. So we've talked a

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lot about, you know, the damage or deficiencies

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that you can have with your detention ponds.

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And that's a great, really inexpensive way to

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remedy some of those maintenance issues. Some other

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issues that we can have are colonizing species.

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So cattails aren't a terrible thing. But if

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they take over, you won't have in a

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bio retention system very much biodiversity if you

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let cattails take over. Bioretention is a terrific

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means of trapping and removing sediment from stormwater.

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We use it for that all the time.

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Trash and floatables also get caught up in

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it, and that's great. That's what we wanted

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it to do, But it doesn't magically vanish.

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We then have to remove it from the

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facility. Some other common issues we can get.

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Oh, this is the same The same thing

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I just talked about, but for a bioswale

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versus bioretention. So it's just basically linear. The

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photo on the bottom. Well, the photo on

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the top there, the higher photo, that's Johnson

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grass. A lot of it. So I talked

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about invasive species earlier. That's what it looks

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like if you're interested. And then the lower

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picture has cattails in it. And I think

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this photo is interesting because I can't quite

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tell what's going on. I'm not sure if

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it was designed to treat the runoff from

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the lawn before it enters the gutter. Or

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if it was meant to treat the runoff

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from the street as it leaves the gutter.

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And it doesn't matter. At any rate, it's

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completely full of cattails, whatever and sediment, whatever

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function it was providing is. It just needs

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a refresh, a little bit of maintenance here.

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So moving on, underground detention. Boy, howdy. It

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is tough to get a picture of underground

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detention. We cover it up and we forget

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about it. But I would argue that it's

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one of the more important things to inspect

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and track. Because, you know, if it gets

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forgotten about, and it gets plugged, or drilled

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into for something else, for a utility, for

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a sign, you've decided, okay, I want to

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put some fence posts in, I'm going to

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put them right across the street here, and

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oops, I hit the hit the tank of

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the underground attention. So yeah, we do have

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to they're not visible and it does create

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a little bit of an extra maintenance and

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inspection challenge there. So, yes, I'm going to

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turn it over to Caitlin. Can I skip

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a slide? Sorry. Yes, I'm going to turn

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it over to Caitlin, and she's going to

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talk about city's requirements, the code, and the

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permitting requirements. Yes, I get the super exciting

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topic of permitting city code regulations, try to

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stay awake. I will try to make it

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interesting probably won't be but I will try

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so, permitting requirements and city code Amy talked

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about we have an ms4 permit for the

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city of St Joseph With that, we need

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annual inspection and reporting for the general permit

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for stormwater facilities. General permit section division four,

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section 25 through 97 basically says, hey, we

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can go inspect your stormwater BMP, and we

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will. So if you're curious about what the

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code says, if you're into that kind of

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thing, you can go look it up. Readily

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accessible if that's something you want to look

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at for yourself. But all this says is

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that we can inspect your stormwater BMPs and

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we're going to. So the MS4 permitting part

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of your MS4 permit is you have to

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write reports. They want to know what you're

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doing to maintain your MS4 system. Colleen writes

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a report every year. It's lovely, but she

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is required to report how they're meeting their

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requirements, how many inspections they do, what your

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inspections consists of. Even things like this, educational

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events, she will write about in her MS

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four report. So thank you for all attending

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this. We will get credit for this and

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this report. So that's great. But, yeah, the

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big thing is, like Amy said, documentation. We

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need to know what's out in the city.

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We need to know how it's functioning, and

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we need to have records of that because

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when you submit your report, they wanna know

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all of these numbers. They big fan of

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data, and they wanna know all of it.

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So these are some pictures because I'm trying

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to class this up a little bit, make

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it interesting. A couple of things that we

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talk about in these reports are, like, cleaning

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up after your pets. Like, did you put

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educational signs out saying, like, this leads to

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pollution or how many illicit discharges did you

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have that you had to clean up? That

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kind of thing. Is there a couch in

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the river? I don't know. Did you have

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any leaks? That kind of thing. K. Let

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me build off of what she said. Mhmm.

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So I may be the one that's doing

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the reporting and helping facilitate our stormwater program

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here in the city of Saint Joseph, but

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it does take us as a city to

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be in compliance and to have good water

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quality. So whether you have kids or you

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have pets like we've covered, it's really good

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to make sure that we're making those smart

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decisions to keep everyone safe and for our

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kids to be able to play in creeks

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and streams as they continue to roll over.

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I for one love to play in creeks

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and streams, even as an adult, and I

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want them to be accessible and clean and

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healthy so I can continue to do that,

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as well as for all the babies out

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there. So thank you, guys. Yeah. Awesome. So

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why are inspections and maintenance records important? I'll

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go into that a little bit. So they're

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directly linked. Right? You need to know what's

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out there. You need to know what condition

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it's in. You need to know how that

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condition is changing year after year because, you

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know, things don't last forever. You need to

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replace things. You just need to know where

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your assets are and what condition they're in.

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Reporting also helps transfer knowledge when your property

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changes hands and ownership. This picture here is

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a facility that is directly upstream from a

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drinking water source. And you can see, well,

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all of these little arrows are where filter

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socks are, which is very important because it

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cleans up the water discharging off of this

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site before it goes into the drinking water

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source. Now this property was sold. The new

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property owners did not know that they had

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BMPs on-site. They did not know what these

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weird filter socks are. They did they just

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weren't aware of it. So as the years

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went on, they lost four of them. They

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never replaced them because they didn't know about

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them. And then that was impacting the drinking

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water downstream. And it's not because the owners

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didn't want to, they just didn't know about

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it. But if we had inspection forms, and

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this is not St. Joe, by the way,

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if we had inspection forms and we had

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that reporting and you could give a packet

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or a piece of paper to the next

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owner, you'd be like, oh, I should probably

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put some filter socks on this or something

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like that. And then you would have your

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protection for the drinking water downstream, and it

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wouldn't be a big deal so it's just

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like the knowledge is power type situation where

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you can't take care of something you don't

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know about so reporting and inspections help aid

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in that. Okay, and I have one thing

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to add to that, which is that Saint

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Joe does a really good job. The reason

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that few so few of my examples come

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from Saint Joe is a direct reflection on

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the terrific job that you all do for

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water quality in your city. I would just

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wanted to add that. Thanks, Caitlin. Yeah, of

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course. Is there any responsibility go through the

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title companies, property transfers, things that have been

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permitted legally through all this stuff, know, like

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with HOA and talking with HOA and then

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when the owner of the properties are gone

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and gone, how's any of that ever is

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there anything in place to transfer any of

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input down the road? I don't think there

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is currently. Personally, I feel like there should

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be. Like, when you buy a house, you

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know, you have your, like, this is what

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you should disclose about the house. It we

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don't currently have anything like that set in

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place, but I would love to get there.

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Amy, Colleen, you wanna add In HOA, you

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have, you know, HOA fees. Those go to

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a pool. That maintains all the post construction

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stormwater BMPs that were built with that HOA.

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So that is the mechanism for maintenance for

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an HOA owned stormwater facility. But for a

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facility like the one in my slide, so

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that was, it's one of the very first

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water quality things I ever worked on when

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I was in EIT twenty years ago. And

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there were just, that warehouse changed hands and

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changed hands again. And there really was no

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mechanism for, for continued maintenance or even awareness

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that that this had been built with the

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facility. And, you know, I don't. Obviously, I

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wasn't involved in the sale or the title,

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but I mean, that would have been one

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way to to enforce it. The other way

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to enforce it is that if it were

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being inspected annually and they were required to

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give an annual report to the city, then

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at least the city would know, hey, we

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haven't gotten a report from you, why? And

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they would say, well, why would we give

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you a report? And that's the city's chance

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to say, well, because you have a facility

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on-site. And they say, a what on-site? Yeah.

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Then you go forward from there. It gives

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you a trigger, basically, and a reason to

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ask them for maintenance. Yeah. And like Amy

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said, we are going to be requiring the

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inspection reports to be on file with the

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city. So Colleen will be reviewing them. Her

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team will be reviewing them. And if a

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year goes by, two years go by, and

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you don't have an updated inspection report, the

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city can call that facility or go out

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to that facility and say, hey. This is

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what's going on to kind of, you know,

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get them back on track, tell them they

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have one if they don't know about it,

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that kind of thing. But to get back

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to your original questions or statement as far

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as like real estate and disclosure of it

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we don't have anything like that right now.

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So for inspections everyone kind of does it

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a little bit differently, but we want to

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track the inspection and maintenance forms we made

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forms they are sitting on your tables you

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don't have to look at them now but

511
00:28:58,860 --> 00:29:00,460
I made them so if you want to

512
00:29:00,460 --> 00:29:03,420
make me feel useful you can look at

513
00:29:03,420 --> 00:29:07,125
them but we would want if you're doing

514
00:29:07,125 --> 00:29:09,924
an inspection on a bmp on your property

515
00:29:10,164 --> 00:29:12,085
or you're the city and you're inspecting we

516
00:29:12,085 --> 00:29:14,565
want you guys to use these forms that

517
00:29:14,565 --> 00:29:17,684
way every inspection form is the same that

518
00:29:17,684 --> 00:29:19,684
comes back so we can build a database

519
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:21,960
we can have all the information that we're

520
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,040
really looking for and it kind of takes

521
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:28,120
the subjectivity out of it and so just

522
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,520
get better data and hopefully make it easier

523
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,000
for you guys if you're inspecting something because

524
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,760
we're telling you exactly what we want you

525
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:39,615
guys to look at. We also want pictures

526
00:29:39,615 --> 00:29:42,655
at the end of this packet. It says

527
00:29:42,655 --> 00:29:44,895
site plan and photos. We want you to

528
00:29:44,895 --> 00:29:47,455
take pictures and then just include it and

529
00:29:47,455 --> 00:29:50,820
then send this whole thing back to the

530
00:29:50,820 --> 00:29:53,940
city. And then the city will have record

531
00:29:53,940 --> 00:29:56,340
of it, city will hold on to it,

532
00:29:56,340 --> 00:29:58,660
and then each year we will know what

533
00:29:58,660 --> 00:30:01,540
state your VMP is in. I will put

534
00:30:01,540 --> 00:30:03,815
these on the city website as well as

535
00:30:03,815 --> 00:30:06,455
send our copies to everyone who's in attendance

536
00:30:06,455 --> 00:30:09,575
and people who are not in attendance that

537
00:30:09,575 --> 00:30:11,495
we don't have facilities that may or may

538
00:30:11,495 --> 00:30:14,054
not have made it today. So with these

539
00:30:14,054 --> 00:30:16,215
forms, don't have to try to remember to

540
00:30:16,215 --> 00:30:17,429
hold on to it, take it back, work,

541
00:30:17,429 --> 00:30:19,110
and make copies of it. You will have

542
00:30:19,110 --> 00:30:21,909
access to more of them. Yeah. And then

543
00:30:21,909 --> 00:30:24,230
we also made the definitions page as well.

544
00:30:24,230 --> 00:30:26,710
Yes. So that would be helpful when you're

545
00:30:26,710 --> 00:30:29,029
doing your inspection if you're confused about what

546
00:30:29,029 --> 00:30:30,789
word needs or if it applies to your

547
00:30:30,789 --> 00:30:33,895
facility. Yeah. So I printed off a couple

548
00:30:33,895 --> 00:30:36,215
of definition pages. I think they're sitting over

549
00:30:36,215 --> 00:30:39,255
on this table, but when Colleen puts this

550
00:30:39,255 --> 00:30:41,415
on the website, the definition page will be

551
00:30:41,415 --> 00:30:45,255
with it. So, yeah, if you have any

552
00:30:45,255 --> 00:30:47,970
questions on anything like what erosion is what

553
00:30:47,970 --> 00:30:51,650
scour is what we mean by I don't

554
00:30:51,650 --> 00:30:56,210
know anything it is there and defined. And

555
00:30:56,210 --> 00:30:58,995
the great thing about the definitions is that

556
00:30:58,995 --> 00:31:01,555
they do vary from person to person and

557
00:31:01,555 --> 00:31:06,434
from across the nation. And just yesterday, well,

558
00:31:06,595 --> 00:31:10,274
Caitlin and I talked about what's equipment and

559
00:31:10,275 --> 00:31:12,675
we had two different definitions for the same

560
00:31:13,260 --> 00:31:16,940
piece of equipment. It can happen even for

561
00:31:16,940 --> 00:31:19,020
people who work in the industry every day.

562
00:31:19,100 --> 00:31:21,820
That the definitions were really important. Thanks, Caitlin.

563
00:31:21,820 --> 00:31:26,380
Yeah. So when is maintenance required? So when

564
00:31:26,380 --> 00:31:29,565
you first build something new development when the

565
00:31:29,565 --> 00:31:32,365
BMP is installed and during the establishment period

566
00:31:32,365 --> 00:31:34,525
it's super important we want to make sure

567
00:31:34,605 --> 00:31:36,845
that the BMP was installed correctly and that

568
00:31:36,845 --> 00:31:41,050
it's functioning. Putting in a BMP is not

569
00:31:41,050 --> 00:31:43,450
helpful to anyone if it is not currently

570
00:31:43,450 --> 00:31:48,330
functioning. So during that establishment period, which is

571
00:31:48,330 --> 00:31:50,730
typically two to three years, you want to

572
00:31:50,730 --> 00:31:52,330
just keep eyes on it to make sure

573
00:31:52,330 --> 00:31:54,970
that it's growing the vegetation that it needs

574
00:31:54,970 --> 00:31:58,785
to. It's not like short circuiting anything like

575
00:31:58,785 --> 00:32:00,705
that and it's just how it's supposed to

576
00:32:00,705 --> 00:32:04,865
be. After rainfall events yesterday we got some

577
00:32:04,865 --> 00:32:06,625
rain I don't know if you guys knew

578
00:32:06,625 --> 00:32:09,905
that but after about two to three inches

579
00:32:09,905 --> 00:32:12,260
of rain you wanna go out and inspect

580
00:32:12,260 --> 00:32:16,500
your BMP. It rained really hard really fast

581
00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:18,740
yesterday, at least down in Kansas City where

582
00:32:18,740 --> 00:32:22,419
we live. It was it was a lot.

583
00:32:22,900 --> 00:32:25,220
And so we wanna just make sure that,

584
00:32:25,220 --> 00:32:29,185
like, rip rap didn't move or we didn't

585
00:32:29,185 --> 00:32:33,585
have mulch go everywhere or any kind of

586
00:32:33,585 --> 00:32:35,905
damage if you have like high winds or

587
00:32:35,905 --> 00:32:38,065
branches or things falling out like you just

588
00:32:38,065 --> 00:32:40,545
want to make sure it's still functioning after

589
00:32:40,545 --> 00:32:45,399
big weather events like that Oh short circuiting

590
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:49,160
short circuiting is when you like bypass your

591
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,640
pre treatment bypass your BMP and it just

592
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,120
kind of finds the path of least resistance

593
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:55,400
which is not where you want it to

594
00:32:55,400 --> 00:33:00,335
go. And then time we've been talking about

595
00:33:00,335 --> 00:33:04,174
doing this every year, so at least annually

596
00:33:04,815 --> 00:33:06,895
if not more often based on rain or

597
00:33:06,895 --> 00:33:09,294
if it's a new development things like that.

598
00:33:09,535 --> 00:33:12,735
And we have them due on December 1

599
00:33:12,735 --> 00:33:17,710
annually for the MS4 permits because pulling will

600
00:33:17,710 --> 00:33:20,669
write them in February, March? It's due the

601
00:33:20,669 --> 00:33:24,510
February. February. So we need all the inspections

602
00:33:24,510 --> 00:33:28,855
done by December 1 so we can put

603
00:33:28,855 --> 00:33:31,015
that all in the report for the EPA

604
00:33:31,015 --> 00:33:35,175
and the good thing about doing inspections then

605
00:33:35,255 --> 00:33:37,655
is it's after the growing season you're not

606
00:33:37,655 --> 00:33:40,450
having like active growth you can kind of

607
00:33:40,450 --> 00:33:43,250
see like if things have died back, if

608
00:33:43,250 --> 00:33:45,570
things need to be replanted, how your mulch

609
00:33:45,570 --> 00:33:49,090
is looking, so it just makes it a

610
00:33:49,090 --> 00:33:51,250
little bit easier when it's not actively growing

611
00:33:51,250 --> 00:33:53,010
you can see that the growing season's done.

612
00:33:53,524 --> 00:33:55,365
If you do have a native planting as

613
00:33:55,365 --> 00:33:58,085
a part of your BMP, I really recommend

614
00:33:58,085 --> 00:34:01,445
downloading an app like Seek or iNaturalist or

615
00:34:01,445 --> 00:34:02,885
one of those apps where you can look

616
00:34:02,885 --> 00:34:04,325
to see if you're not familiar with what

617
00:34:04,325 --> 00:34:06,725
native plants look like, taking pictures while you're

618
00:34:06,725 --> 00:34:08,324
out there to see what you have growing,

619
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,199
And then also doing that during the growing

620
00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:12,960
season because sometimes it can be really hard

621
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,119
to tell what something is after it started

622
00:34:15,119 --> 00:34:17,119
to die back. So you could say, my

623
00:34:17,119 --> 00:34:18,960
plants were out there not realizing that they

624
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,385
were none of the intended plants. Yeah. And

625
00:34:22,385 --> 00:34:24,304
for this picture I just think it's really

626
00:34:24,304 --> 00:34:29,264
interesting that there's that hole, there's that corrosion

627
00:34:29,425 --> 00:34:32,065
that's happening and it's not by the waterline.

628
00:34:32,224 --> 00:34:33,585
So you can tell it's coming from the

629
00:34:33,585 --> 00:34:37,280
lawn and the lawn chemicals used that got

630
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,760
in there or like a lawn mower clipped

631
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:43,280
it or something which is causing that so

632
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:47,040
I just thought that was interesting things like

633
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:48,159
that you kind of want to look for.

634
00:34:50,414 --> 00:34:54,654
Okay so if you get out your inspection

635
00:34:54,654 --> 00:34:58,255
forms that should be on your table I'm

636
00:34:58,255 --> 00:35:02,015
just going to go through pretty quickly what

637
00:35:02,015 --> 00:35:04,250
they entail and if you guys have any

638
00:35:04,250 --> 00:35:06,970
questions or anything just raise your hand or

639
00:35:06,970 --> 00:35:13,290
interrupt me that's fine as well. So the

640
00:35:13,290 --> 00:35:16,810
ones that you guys have are for buyer

641
00:35:16,810 --> 00:35:22,245
retention which I should probably rename to just

642
00:35:22,245 --> 00:35:25,365
say like green infrastructure, because this will be

643
00:35:25,365 --> 00:35:27,445
anything that is green. It is not for

644
00:35:27,445 --> 00:35:31,220
underground detention, it's for everything else. We have

645
00:35:31,220 --> 00:35:33,540
a separate underground detention form if you have

646
00:35:33,540 --> 00:35:37,620
an underground detention facility. Also will be available

647
00:35:37,700 --> 00:35:39,780
on the website, but we're just going to

648
00:35:39,780 --> 00:35:43,194
go through the bioretention one. So the first

649
00:35:43,194 --> 00:35:47,995
part up here, pretty simple. Your project name,

650
00:35:49,035 --> 00:35:54,555
your NPDES tracking number, location, date, time, who's

651
00:35:54,555 --> 00:35:58,220
doing the inspection, general contact information should be

652
00:35:58,220 --> 00:36:01,180
pretty easy to fill out. Your MPDS tracking

653
00:36:01,180 --> 00:36:04,060
number is the state land disturbance permit number

654
00:36:04,060 --> 00:36:07,500
that your project was issued. So some projects

655
00:36:07,500 --> 00:36:09,020
may not have that. And if you're not

656
00:36:09,020 --> 00:36:10,619
sure, we can help you find that number.

657
00:36:10,965 --> 00:36:12,965
Yes. Thank you. What did you say? What

658
00:36:12,965 --> 00:36:15,285
does it say? So if you have a

659
00:36:15,285 --> 00:36:17,845
project that is over an acre of land

660
00:36:17,845 --> 00:36:20,565
disturbance or common plan development, you have to

661
00:36:20,565 --> 00:36:22,805
get the state land disturbance permit before we

662
00:36:22,805 --> 00:36:25,400
will issue a city land service permit. And

663
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,120
it's called a Mora number. It's a very

664
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:33,960
operating permit something something. Uh-uh. But, yeah, so

665
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,040
it's the number on that permit that's issued

666
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,760
to United States or the Department of Natural

667
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:42,575
Resources. Yes. We can look that up for

668
00:36:42,575 --> 00:36:45,855
you guys if you don't have it. So

669
00:36:45,855 --> 00:36:48,335
under this line, you have the BMP owner's

670
00:36:48,335 --> 00:36:51,789
name, BMP owner's contact information, just in case

671
00:36:51,789 --> 00:36:53,150
we need to contact you or if you

672
00:36:53,150 --> 00:36:55,710
have any questions, things like that, we can.

673
00:36:56,430 --> 00:36:59,230
Next type of d m or BMP detention

674
00:36:59,230 --> 00:37:03,630
pond, buyer attention, bioswale, just so we kind

675
00:37:03,630 --> 00:37:04,990
of know what we're looking at. And then

676
00:37:04,990 --> 00:37:08,295
at the bottom weather information, Like, today would

677
00:37:08,295 --> 00:37:11,015
be like, oh, beautiful day, partly cloudy. Last

678
00:37:11,015 --> 00:37:14,295
time it rained. Yesterday, how many inches you

679
00:37:14,295 --> 00:37:17,015
got of rain, that kind of thing. That's

680
00:37:17,015 --> 00:37:20,700
important to know because BMPs are designed to

681
00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:24,140
slowly release water within forty eight hours of

682
00:37:24,140 --> 00:37:28,620
the last rain so you know if there's

683
00:37:28,620 --> 00:37:30,620
standing water in it and it hasn't rained

684
00:37:30,620 --> 00:37:34,205
for six days we're like, oh, that's not

685
00:37:34,205 --> 00:37:36,125
great. We need to figure out what's going

686
00:37:36,125 --> 00:37:38,285
on. But if there's standing water in it

687
00:37:38,285 --> 00:37:41,005
today, we're like, yeah, that makes sense. It

688
00:37:41,005 --> 00:37:45,580
rained yesterday. So, it's important. A good resource

689
00:37:45,580 --> 00:37:48,140
for finding out rainfall amounts here locally in

690
00:37:48,140 --> 00:37:50,220
your extension is a weather station. If you

691
00:37:50,220 --> 00:37:54,780
just Google in your extension, Buchanan County, weather

692
00:37:54,780 --> 00:37:57,260
data, and it'll year to date, you can

693
00:37:57,260 --> 00:37:59,415
also look up historical rainfall amounts as well

694
00:37:59,415 --> 00:38:03,415
for the fill out here. Perfect. Thank you.

695
00:38:04,135 --> 00:38:08,775
Okay. So that's all just general information. Next,

696
00:38:08,775 --> 00:38:10,695
we're getting into some of the details. First,

697
00:38:10,695 --> 00:38:12,455
we want you to look at your inflow

698
00:38:12,455 --> 00:38:15,869
points and structures. And if this is just

699
00:38:15,869 --> 00:38:18,190
like, whoo, I have no idea what you're

700
00:38:18,190 --> 00:38:21,550
talking about, crazy lady, hopefully, it will make

701
00:38:21,550 --> 00:38:26,349
more sense. Amy's gonna go through some examples

702
00:38:26,349 --> 00:38:28,505
where we will have you guys talk through

703
00:38:28,505 --> 00:38:31,305
them, rank them, that kind of thing. So,

704
00:38:31,305 --> 00:38:33,465
hopefully, it'll start making sense when you're actually

705
00:38:33,465 --> 00:38:37,705
doing it. I get it's a it's kinda

706
00:38:37,705 --> 00:38:40,265
theoretical at this point, and so it's like,

707
00:38:40,265 --> 00:38:46,110
don't know what you're talking about. But oh,

708
00:38:46,110 --> 00:38:48,590
I'm getting all sorts of I'm just skipping

709
00:38:48,590 --> 00:38:52,750
the slides and just going. I think we

710
00:38:52,750 --> 00:38:55,630
all can figure out bio retention versus underground

711
00:38:55,630 --> 00:38:59,435
attention. Bio retention is everything above the ground,

712
00:38:59,435 --> 00:39:02,955
everything green, and underground attention is underground, and

713
00:39:02,955 --> 00:39:05,115
there are two different forms like I mentioned.

714
00:39:05,515 --> 00:39:10,395
So underground can be literally a giant container

715
00:39:10,395 --> 00:39:13,115
essentially that they put underground that their inlets

716
00:39:13,115 --> 00:39:15,890
flow into. Typically they have a wall or

717
00:39:15,890 --> 00:39:17,410
something in them where they pull back the

718
00:39:17,410 --> 00:39:20,529
water, let sediment, and any floatable settle out

719
00:39:20,529 --> 00:39:23,010
and then it has a discharge point downstream.

720
00:39:23,410 --> 00:39:25,250
We have a few of these facilities in

721
00:39:25,250 --> 00:39:27,730
town but yeah just imagine a giant container

722
00:39:27,730 --> 00:39:29,435
that could be the parking lot. Yeah it's

723
00:39:29,435 --> 00:39:32,795
like a big concrete box mostly and it

724
00:39:32,795 --> 00:39:35,915
is to hold back rain until the system

725
00:39:35,915 --> 00:39:38,155
can handle it downstream so it's just kind

726
00:39:38,155 --> 00:39:41,755
of a little storage box for water until

727
00:39:41,755 --> 00:39:43,355
the rest of the system can handle it.

728
00:39:44,820 --> 00:39:48,020
Okay, so going through the BMP components, there

729
00:39:48,020 --> 00:39:52,100
are different sections calling out each part of

730
00:39:52,100 --> 00:39:54,340
your BMP that needs to be checked. So

731
00:39:54,340 --> 00:39:59,085
we have inflow points structures pretreatment area, which

732
00:39:59,085 --> 00:40:03,645
would be your forebay, your grass swale, which

733
00:40:03,645 --> 00:40:06,365
are just areas that water flows through before

734
00:40:06,365 --> 00:40:09,325
you get to your main green infrastructure, your

735
00:40:09,325 --> 00:40:15,400
main BMP, your perimeter, your side slopes, the

736
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:20,280
bottom of the system, your outlet structure, your

737
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,240
overflow structure, and then some general other areas.

738
00:40:23,685 --> 00:40:26,245
So each of these sections is set up

739
00:40:26,245 --> 00:40:29,205
with a yes a no an na and

740
00:40:29,205 --> 00:40:33,205
a notes area so the thought process here

741
00:40:33,205 --> 00:40:34,565
is if you go and you look at

742
00:40:34,565 --> 00:40:37,930
your inflow structure and you're like it looks

743
00:40:37,930 --> 00:40:39,930
pretty good. I don't see any issues. There

744
00:40:39,930 --> 00:40:43,850
are no obstructions. There's no erosion. There's no

745
00:40:43,850 --> 00:40:47,690
riprap fabric matting issues. You just circle no

746
00:40:47,690 --> 00:40:50,075
for all of those. You give it a

747
00:40:50,075 --> 00:40:54,635
score of great, good, fair, fail, and then

748
00:40:54,635 --> 00:40:57,115
you move on to the next section. And

749
00:40:57,115 --> 00:41:00,875
if you wanna put notes and comments, that's

750
00:41:00,875 --> 00:41:03,660
definitely helpful as well. So the thought is

751
00:41:03,660 --> 00:41:06,220
just to go by each section fill out

752
00:41:06,220 --> 00:41:09,020
yes or no questions and then call it

753
00:41:09,020 --> 00:41:16,785
a day so, the overall BMP condition there

754
00:41:16,785 --> 00:41:21,425
is a reference matrix at the back where

755
00:41:21,425 --> 00:41:23,905
you have the overall rating, you have your

756
00:41:23,905 --> 00:41:27,105
description, and, like, an example comment. So if

757
00:41:27,105 --> 00:41:29,870
it was great, a rating of great, you're

758
00:41:29,870 --> 00:41:33,470
like, this BMP is awesome. It looks amazing.

759
00:41:33,470 --> 00:41:36,430
There's nothing I would change. That would be

760
00:41:36,430 --> 00:41:39,150
a great. If it's good, it'd be like,

761
00:41:39,150 --> 00:41:42,190
well, it's functioning, but, like, maybe there's some

762
00:41:42,190 --> 00:41:43,870
trash there. Like, I need to pick up

763
00:41:43,870 --> 00:41:47,625
this plastic bag or this bottle or something.

764
00:41:48,184 --> 00:41:50,984
Fair would be, like, maybe some of the

765
00:41:50,984 --> 00:41:53,065
function is impaired. We should probably do some

766
00:41:53,065 --> 00:41:54,825
maintenance on this to get it back to,

767
00:41:54,825 --> 00:41:56,424
like, the higher level it needs to be,

768
00:41:56,900 --> 00:41:59,700
but it's still functioning somewhat. And then fail

769
00:41:59,700 --> 00:42:02,660
would be, like, it's just not functioning. There's

770
00:42:02,740 --> 00:42:05,780
invasives all over the place. It needs some

771
00:42:05,780 --> 00:42:08,500
serious work. So you can use that reference

772
00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:11,380
matrix to kind of gauge where your BMP

773
00:42:11,380 --> 00:42:14,835
is at as you're ranking it. So and

774
00:42:14,835 --> 00:42:17,395
then at the end here, you have additional

775
00:42:17,395 --> 00:42:20,275
comments and then site plan and photos that

776
00:42:20,275 --> 00:42:22,835
you can add. Yeah. I do wanna point

777
00:42:22,835 --> 00:42:26,195
out that if you do your inspection well,

778
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:28,840
when you do your inspection this year, if

779
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,880
your BNP, you feel like it's failing or

780
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:36,360
meets the failing, overall condition, that does not

781
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,174
mean we're going to start doing enforcement or

782
00:42:39,174 --> 00:42:41,015
you're not going to get in trouble. This

783
00:42:41,015 --> 00:42:43,015
is to assess how our BNPs are on

784
00:42:43,015 --> 00:42:44,934
our property and they give us a baseline

785
00:42:44,934 --> 00:42:46,615
on where we need to go to start

786
00:42:46,615 --> 00:42:50,375
maintaining them and maintain them correctly. So that's

787
00:42:50,375 --> 00:42:51,895
why also why I want pictures. We're not

788
00:42:51,895 --> 00:42:53,255
gonna get mad at you if it's failing.

789
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:55,079
We want to know what the condition of

790
00:42:55,079 --> 00:42:57,400
it is and then help you get to

791
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:58,839
where it needs to be so that it's

792
00:42:58,839 --> 00:43:01,480
protecting our water quality functioning as designed and

793
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,680
maintained. Yeah and if you have questions on

794
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:06,119
what you need to do with your BMP

795
00:43:06,119 --> 00:43:08,735
after the inspection, you're like well feel like

796
00:43:08,735 --> 00:43:10,415
I need more plants or things like that

797
00:43:10,415 --> 00:43:13,855
you can contact water protection and we'll be

798
00:43:13,855 --> 00:43:17,055
happy to help you guys reestablish your BMP

799
00:43:17,055 --> 00:43:19,135
so it's functioning as it should. And there

800
00:43:19,135 --> 00:43:22,020
are we put out a few years ago

801
00:43:22,020 --> 00:43:23,780
I printed some off for different types of

802
00:43:23,780 --> 00:43:26,580
BMPs, it kind of boasts of general maintenance

803
00:43:26,580 --> 00:43:28,340
what they are how they're supposed to function

804
00:43:28,340 --> 00:43:29,860
things like that and there are lot of

805
00:43:29,860 --> 00:43:32,500
resources online as well as myself and my

806
00:43:32,500 --> 00:43:34,100
team so we'll help out as much as

807
00:43:34,100 --> 00:43:38,865
possible. Okay. Going into operation and maintenance documents.

808
00:43:40,865 --> 00:43:43,664
So we should all have operation and maintenance

809
00:43:43,664 --> 00:43:45,744
documents for all of our BMPs that we

810
00:43:45,744 --> 00:43:49,950
have. The owner should have a copy, and

811
00:43:49,950 --> 00:43:52,190
ms four operator should have a copy should

812
00:43:52,190 --> 00:43:57,470
be all electronic and then the city will

813
00:43:57,470 --> 00:44:00,110
also have copies of all your inspection reports

814
00:44:00,830 --> 00:44:10,424
with that same thing, O and M document

815
00:44:10,424 --> 00:44:12,825
requirements with your inspection forms. You need to

816
00:44:12,825 --> 00:44:16,150
know who's inspecting them and what the findings

817
00:44:16,150 --> 00:44:18,870
are. And so, like, you would just want

818
00:44:18,870 --> 00:44:21,750
your inspection form to be with your O

819
00:44:21,750 --> 00:44:25,110
and M documents. So if you have, you

820
00:44:25,110 --> 00:44:26,950
know, your O and M documents saved on

821
00:44:27,185 --> 00:44:29,505
your computer in a file just keep your

822
00:44:29,505 --> 00:44:31,825
electronic copy in the same folder on your

823
00:44:31,825 --> 00:44:33,984
computer so it's all in the same area

824
00:44:33,984 --> 00:44:35,425
so when we need to look at it

825
00:44:35,425 --> 00:44:41,585
we can. Very similar type data that you

826
00:44:41,585 --> 00:44:44,760
would need. The O and M documents are

827
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:49,880
your plan for maintaining your BMP and your

828
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:53,880
inspection forms are how it's actually being maintained

829
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:59,965
and how it's ranked We also for o

830
00:44:59,965 --> 00:45:02,765
and m document requirements, we want information on

831
00:45:02,765 --> 00:45:07,485
follow-up actions and enforcement actions. As Colleen said,

832
00:45:07,485 --> 00:45:09,325
we're not gonna start enforcing things right away.

833
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:11,360
We're not going to get mad at you

834
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,600
if your BMP is not quite where it

835
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:16,320
should be but we do want you to

836
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:18,240
make a plan what you need to do

837
00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:20,400
to bring it back up to functioning where

838
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,840
it is and then how you plan to

839
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:26,595
do that and by when. So we want

840
00:45:26,595 --> 00:45:28,435
dates of like, hey, I'm going to be

841
00:45:28,435 --> 00:45:31,315
replanting in the spring with x y and

842
00:45:31,315 --> 00:45:34,595
z plants or something like that with photos

843
00:45:34,595 --> 00:45:37,350
documentation when you do those things. So it's

844
00:45:37,350 --> 00:45:40,470
really just documenting all of your actions so

845
00:45:40,470 --> 00:45:43,990
we have all the documentation. Make a photo

846
00:45:43,990 --> 00:45:48,390
comment? Absolutely. Okay. So in this photo, we

847
00:45:48,390 --> 00:45:51,475
have inlet scour, and it's not real evident

848
00:45:51,475 --> 00:45:54,835
because they took it in a corrective action

849
00:45:55,155 --> 00:45:59,475
of putting old fence posts. That's the rounded

850
00:45:59,475 --> 00:46:02,275
things that you see in the background there.

851
00:46:02,275 --> 00:46:05,330
They put old fence posts instead of riprap

852
00:46:05,330 --> 00:46:08,690
to try to stabilize that inlet scour. And

853
00:46:08,690 --> 00:46:11,650
the issue with that is it's not, it

854
00:46:11,650 --> 00:46:14,930
doesn't really bring it back to before it

855
00:46:14,930 --> 00:46:19,645
was damaged. You know, the fence post ends,

856
00:46:19,725 --> 00:46:23,165
that waste time kind of rolls around, whereas

857
00:46:23,405 --> 00:46:26,845
riprap really works all together. It has bedding,

858
00:46:26,925 --> 00:46:31,320
it has geotextile beneath it, The gradation of

859
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:35,720
the ripraptinal locks itself together. Old fence posts

860
00:46:35,720 --> 00:46:38,920
don't do that. So that's what we're asking

861
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:43,080
for your corrective or follow-up actions. It's not

862
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,320
to knock anyone down, it's just to make

863
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:49,474
sure that those maintenance items really truly address

864
00:46:49,474 --> 00:46:52,035
the inlet scour before we get a failure.

865
00:46:52,035 --> 00:46:54,915
So that's pretty new concrete that wasn't cheap.

866
00:46:55,875 --> 00:46:58,194
We want to make sure that it hangs

867
00:46:58,194 --> 00:47:01,510
together for you. Yeah. And as we've mentioned

868
00:47:01,510 --> 00:47:05,510
multiple times, pictures worth a thousand words. Take

869
00:47:05,510 --> 00:47:07,910
pictures of your sites, submit them with your

870
00:47:07,910 --> 00:47:11,349
inspection forms. I'm sure Pauline is going to

871
00:47:11,349 --> 00:47:13,109
have a great filing system for all of

872
00:47:13,109 --> 00:47:16,875
your pictures that you send her. So yeah

873
00:47:17,115 --> 00:47:21,035
just make sure you take pictures. All right

874
00:47:21,035 --> 00:47:23,035
we are almost done you guys have been

875
00:47:23,035 --> 00:47:25,995
great. We are going to go through some

876
00:47:25,995 --> 00:47:30,330
practice inspection forms, to hopefully make it a

877
00:47:30,330 --> 00:47:32,250
little bit easier when we ask you guys

878
00:47:32,250 --> 00:47:35,450
to go do this. Amy, would you like

879
00:47:35,450 --> 00:47:39,770
to start? Sure. Yeah. This first one here

880
00:47:39,770 --> 00:47:43,485
is an infiltration basin. And all of them

881
00:47:43,485 --> 00:47:45,485
here, we are going to use the bioretention

882
00:47:45,485 --> 00:47:47,885
form. We're not doing an underground detention one,

883
00:47:47,885 --> 00:47:52,525
so we'll all be in the bioretention. So

884
00:47:52,525 --> 00:47:54,850
I'm gonna use my my cursor to kind

885
00:47:54,850 --> 00:47:57,810
of point at what I'm inspecting here. And,

886
00:47:58,050 --> 00:47:59,490
and some of it is going to come

887
00:47:59,490 --> 00:48:01,090
from my memory. So you're going to have

888
00:48:01,090 --> 00:48:02,690
to trust me on some of this because

889
00:48:02,690 --> 00:48:04,530
I really only have this one picture of

890
00:48:04,530 --> 00:48:07,410
the facility. The inlet looks great to me.

891
00:48:07,410 --> 00:48:12,375
I don't see scour. The pretreatment area that

892
00:48:12,375 --> 00:48:15,494
would be like this side or or maybe

893
00:48:15,494 --> 00:48:17,974
this end looks fine to me too. I

894
00:48:17,974 --> 00:48:23,970
don't see erosion undercutting. I don't see debris

895
00:48:23,970 --> 00:48:27,970
sediment accumulated here. So it looks I I

896
00:48:27,970 --> 00:48:29,730
sport it as a great on the inflow

897
00:48:29,730 --> 00:48:32,530
point and the pretreatment area. I also give

898
00:48:32,530 --> 00:48:36,415
it a great. Unwanted vegetation. I think I

899
00:48:36,415 --> 00:48:40,255
noted that there are 5% weed cover. All

900
00:48:40,255 --> 00:48:47,535
this over here. Moving on the perimeter side

901
00:48:47,535 --> 00:48:51,700
slopes, the embankment. I noted the weeds again,

902
00:48:51,700 --> 00:48:54,420
but I said overall it looks great. The

903
00:48:54,420 --> 00:48:57,539
bottom of the system. The bottom of the

904
00:48:57,539 --> 00:49:00,260
system, I didn't note that there was any

905
00:49:00,260 --> 00:49:05,055
trash like floatables, old bottles. I didn't see

906
00:49:05,055 --> 00:49:10,494
any bare ground or excess sedimentation that was

907
00:49:10,494 --> 00:49:14,655
clogging this gravel. So I I thought it

908
00:49:14,655 --> 00:49:18,734
looked great. And then on the let's see.

909
00:49:19,119 --> 00:49:21,119
For the outlet structure, you're gonna have to

910
00:49:21,119 --> 00:49:22,800
take my word on this one because it

911
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:24,640
drained that way and I didn't get it

912
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:27,920
in the photo. But the outlet structure, I

913
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:30,240
didn't see any scour around it. I didn't

914
00:49:30,240 --> 00:49:33,680
see any sediment or debris in the pipe.

915
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:36,695
I didn't see displacement of the of the

916
00:49:36,695 --> 00:49:41,975
decorative, pretty decorative gravel or riprap. And I

917
00:49:41,975 --> 00:49:45,495
didn't see displacement of the vegetation or any

918
00:49:45,495 --> 00:49:49,095
of the measures. And the outlet flow structure

919
00:49:49,095 --> 00:49:52,230
itself. Again, I rated it great. I didn't

920
00:49:52,230 --> 00:49:58,310
see anything there. And in general, it is

921
00:49:58,310 --> 00:50:03,165
not access restricted. So, I really like my

922
00:50:03,165 --> 00:50:07,085
green BMPs to have restricted access. I don't

923
00:50:07,085 --> 00:50:09,805
want the lawnmower man to come in here

924
00:50:09,965 --> 00:50:13,565
and mow everything. I've actually seen them fail

925
00:50:13,565 --> 00:50:15,325
that way. And it's always kind of sad.

926
00:50:16,750 --> 00:50:19,310
I guess it's somewhat access restricted by the

927
00:50:19,310 --> 00:50:24,270
curb. So that's good. I did not see.

928
00:50:25,150 --> 00:50:27,310
I do not know what the original proof

929
00:50:27,310 --> 00:50:28,990
plan is for this one, so I couldn't

930
00:50:28,990 --> 00:50:32,035
really score that. But overall, I gave it

931
00:50:32,035 --> 00:50:33,795
a great. Other than a little bit of

932
00:50:33,795 --> 00:50:36,195
weediness over in the corner, it looked pretty

933
00:50:36,195 --> 00:50:40,115
good to me overall. And so my, at

934
00:50:40,115 --> 00:50:43,490
the bottom, the reference matrix, I would have

935
00:50:43,490 --> 00:50:45,490
rated it great and said, it looks the

936
00:50:45,490 --> 00:50:47,250
best it can be. You don't really need

937
00:50:47,250 --> 00:50:51,410
to do anything well done. I'm going to

938
00:50:51,410 --> 00:50:53,329
move on to the next one and inspect

939
00:50:53,329 --> 00:50:56,130
it. So, these inspections don't have to take

940
00:50:56,130 --> 00:50:58,964
a ton of time. It shouldn't be a

941
00:50:58,964 --> 00:51:02,244
lengthy exercise. I'm asking you to like I

942
00:51:02,244 --> 00:51:05,204
do not need a dissertation. All day to

943
00:51:05,204 --> 00:51:07,365
look at your BMC. Just, you know, we

944
00:51:07,365 --> 00:51:09,045
want you to have your eyes on it.

945
00:51:09,285 --> 00:51:11,365
Just be aware of what's going on. We

946
00:51:11,365 --> 00:51:12,885
do ask that you have boots on the

947
00:51:12,885 --> 00:51:14,860
ground. Don't just, like, grab on to take

948
00:51:14,860 --> 00:51:17,100
a picture, like, get out, walk around. Yeah.

949
00:51:17,100 --> 00:51:20,060
Look at your inflow, your outflow. Make sure

950
00:51:20,060 --> 00:51:22,380
you can see the bottom clearly. Boots on

951
00:51:22,380 --> 00:51:24,940
the ground is always good just to really

952
00:51:24,940 --> 00:51:26,540
get a view and an idea of what's

953
00:51:26,540 --> 00:51:29,085
going on out there. And the form pretty

954
00:51:29,085 --> 00:51:31,245
much reflects that. I mean, it talks about

955
00:51:31,245 --> 00:51:34,125
the inlet, the outlet, the bottom, the sides.

956
00:51:34,605 --> 00:51:38,605
The form really does assume that you've inspected

957
00:51:38,605 --> 00:51:43,280
the whole facility with your feet. So let's

958
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,240
look at the inflow point first. I rated

959
00:51:46,240 --> 00:51:48,960
it fair. You'll have to kind of take

960
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:50,640
my word for it, but I see about

961
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:53,600
four inches of scour at the inlet here.

962
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:59,295
I noted erosion and undercutting. I noted four

963
00:51:59,295 --> 00:52:02,575
inches of scour at the inlet here. In

964
00:52:02,575 --> 00:52:06,415
the pretreatment area, which was over here where

965
00:52:06,415 --> 00:52:09,455
if you can see my cursor, I noted

966
00:52:09,455 --> 00:52:14,279
sediment and debris accumulation. I noted erosion on

967
00:52:14,279 --> 00:52:16,920
the side well, right here in the forebay.

968
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:22,200
I noted unwanted vegetation. It was pretty weedy.

969
00:52:22,839 --> 00:52:27,575
I noticed no bypassing or short cutting. It

970
00:52:27,575 --> 00:52:30,455
does appear that everything that was designed to

971
00:52:30,455 --> 00:52:33,495
flow to the facility is still getting there.

972
00:52:33,895 --> 00:52:35,815
That was good. And then I noted the

973
00:52:35,815 --> 00:52:37,975
vegetation. There's some cattails in the bottom of

974
00:52:37,975 --> 00:52:42,130
it. Moving on to the side slopes, I

975
00:52:42,130 --> 00:52:46,130
rated those fair. I do not see the

976
00:52:46,130 --> 00:52:48,370
kind of establishment that I would hope for

977
00:52:48,370 --> 00:52:51,490
on the side slopes here after five years.

978
00:52:52,085 --> 00:52:55,765
Within five years, I would expect 100% establishment

979
00:52:55,765 --> 00:53:00,325
of these side slopes here. I noted debris

980
00:53:00,325 --> 00:53:05,220
and accumulation or accumulation of sediment. I did

981
00:53:05,220 --> 00:53:07,540
not note a lot of erosion on the

982
00:53:07,540 --> 00:53:09,940
side slopes. It does appear like the side

983
00:53:09,940 --> 00:53:13,780
slopes aren't experiencing erosion. I do see some

984
00:53:13,780 --> 00:53:17,300
unwanted vegetation. I'm pretty sure these willows were

985
00:53:17,300 --> 00:53:23,005
not purposely planted there. Willows aren't a huge

986
00:53:23,005 --> 00:53:27,405
problem, though. And then I just said, overall

987
00:53:27,405 --> 00:53:31,085
fair condition, poor establishment on the side slopes.

988
00:53:32,420 --> 00:53:34,420
I next rated the bottom of the system.

989
00:53:34,420 --> 00:53:37,380
I rated it fair. I noted some kind

990
00:53:37,380 --> 00:53:41,220
of weedy, unwanted vegetation. I noticed some sediment

991
00:53:41,220 --> 00:53:47,140
accumulation. I noticed some evidence of inadequate drainage,

992
00:53:47,465 --> 00:53:50,665
So I'm guessing that this bare spot here

993
00:53:50,665 --> 00:53:53,865
was because there's probably usually some water that

994
00:53:53,865 --> 00:53:56,905
sits there. It's meant to be dried tension.

995
00:53:57,385 --> 00:54:00,905
If you have basin with a permanent pool,

996
00:54:00,905 --> 00:54:05,060
obviously that's fine. Let's see. And then I

997
00:54:05,060 --> 00:54:07,620
noted that there was some bare ground and

998
00:54:07,620 --> 00:54:09,700
erosion over here. You can see it in

999
00:54:09,700 --> 00:54:12,180
this part of the photo. And so I

1000
00:54:12,180 --> 00:54:14,660
said that it was fair and then I

1001
00:54:14,660 --> 00:54:18,605
estimated about six inches of sediment sitting in

1002
00:54:18,605 --> 00:54:21,805
the bottom of this thing. It may never

1003
00:54:21,805 --> 00:54:24,125
have been cleaned out after being used as

1004
00:54:24,125 --> 00:54:28,125
a temporary sediment thing. The outlet structure looked

1005
00:54:28,125 --> 00:54:30,780
great to me. I didn't see any obstructions

1006
00:54:30,780 --> 00:54:33,340
on it. I took a peek inside. I

1007
00:54:33,340 --> 00:54:37,180
didn't see any chunks of Styrofoam or card

1008
00:54:37,180 --> 00:54:39,580
mats or anything like that in there. You

1009
00:54:39,580 --> 00:54:41,660
never know. I've seen some really wild things

1010
00:54:41,660 --> 00:54:44,595
inside of an outlet structure. I didn't see

1011
00:54:44,595 --> 00:54:49,475
any erosion around this part, the supporting part.

1012
00:54:50,195 --> 00:54:53,555
I did not note anything else. It looked

1013
00:54:53,555 --> 00:54:56,195
great to me. Rated the outlet structure great,

1014
00:54:56,275 --> 00:55:00,170
and the overflow structure as well. Caitlin has

1015
00:55:00,170 --> 00:55:04,089
this separated on the form just to point

1016
00:55:04,089 --> 00:55:06,490
this out because the outlet structure is where

1017
00:55:06,490 --> 00:55:10,730
my cursor is, see. But the overflow structure

1018
00:55:10,730 --> 00:55:13,664
is the path when the outlet structure is

1019
00:55:13,664 --> 00:55:17,265
overwhelmed by a big event. Where's the overflow

1020
00:55:17,265 --> 00:55:19,424
structure? Like, where does it go next? So

1021
00:55:19,424 --> 00:55:22,305
that's what that's referring to. So that was

1022
00:55:22,305 --> 00:55:25,184
this, a swale that you can just barely

1023
00:55:25,184 --> 00:55:28,710
see in my photo. And, it had good

1024
00:55:28,710 --> 00:55:33,750
establishment. I rated it great. Enough said. In

1025
00:55:33,750 --> 00:55:37,270
general, I did not find that they accessed,

1026
00:55:38,230 --> 00:55:40,595
that there was any restricted access to it.

1027
00:55:40,595 --> 00:55:43,954
You could theoretically, I suppose, mow it. That

1028
00:55:43,954 --> 00:55:47,954
wouldn't be super desirable, though. But it doesn't

1029
00:55:47,954 --> 00:55:51,075
have a permanent pool. So maybe they wanted

1030
00:55:51,075 --> 00:55:53,875
to leave it unfenced. Don't really have a

1031
00:55:53,875 --> 00:55:57,770
problem with that. I did find evidence that

1032
00:55:57,770 --> 00:56:00,170
maintenance hasn't been conducted since it was built

1033
00:56:00,170 --> 00:56:03,290
five years ago. And I based that on

1034
00:56:03,290 --> 00:56:07,050
the scour at the outlet, the loss of

1035
00:56:07,050 --> 00:56:11,415
riprap, and just the general condition of the

1036
00:56:11,415 --> 00:56:16,055
vegetation and the and the sediment accumulation. So

1037
00:56:16,055 --> 00:56:19,335
overall, I rated it fair, and I noted

1038
00:56:19,335 --> 00:56:21,974
that the inlet end section failure due to

1039
00:56:21,974 --> 00:56:26,130
scour here and the loss of the riprap.

1040
00:56:27,170 --> 00:56:29,490
I noted trash needs to be removed. It

1041
00:56:29,490 --> 00:56:32,130
needs to be weeded, damaged to the inflow

1042
00:56:32,130 --> 00:56:37,810
pipe. If I were turning this in every

1043
00:56:37,810 --> 00:56:41,935
year, then I would know exactly when this

1044
00:56:42,255 --> 00:56:45,215
end section failed. So it wouldn't be any

1045
00:56:45,215 --> 00:56:47,455
kind of mystery to me as to how

1046
00:56:47,455 --> 00:56:49,455
long the design lasted from when it was

1047
00:56:49,455 --> 00:56:51,855
built. If I'm taking photos of it every

1048
00:56:51,855 --> 00:56:53,695
year, I can look back and say, Oh,

1049
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:56,440
well, last year this thing was fine. There

1050
00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:57,880
might have been a big storm or something

1051
00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:04,440
that damaged it. Yep, there is one more.

1052
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:10,325
So inflow, the rain garden looks great. I

1053
00:57:10,325 --> 00:57:15,365
didn't see any loss of riprap erosion. I

1054
00:57:15,365 --> 00:57:18,805
didn't see any obstruction, anything obstructing water from

1055
00:57:18,805 --> 00:57:22,980
getting into the rain garden. The pretreatment area

1056
00:57:23,220 --> 00:57:26,340
that would be up here, I think. It

1057
00:57:26,340 --> 00:57:27,860
looks good to me. I don't see any

1058
00:57:27,860 --> 00:57:34,994
sediment accumulation. The perimeter and side slopes. I

1059
00:57:34,994 --> 00:57:38,194
didn't note any erosion of this area here

1060
00:57:38,194 --> 00:57:44,675
that slopes into the subgrade. I not note

1061
00:57:45,154 --> 00:57:46,434
that I thought the bottom of the system

1062
00:57:46,434 --> 00:57:50,310
looked good too. There's mulch covering anywhere there's

1063
00:57:50,310 --> 00:57:54,150
not plants, so there's no bare soil. I

1064
00:57:54,150 --> 00:57:57,350
didn't see any areas where water was obviously

1065
00:57:57,350 --> 00:57:59,750
standing and should not. So I think it's

1066
00:57:59,750 --> 00:58:04,355
probably infiltrating pretty well. And I noted that

1067
00:58:04,355 --> 00:58:08,115
the mulch adequately protects the soil. So if

1068
00:58:08,115 --> 00:58:09,795
we want to replant in the middle there,

1069
00:58:09,795 --> 00:58:12,755
we can. But in the meantime, the mulch

1070
00:58:12,755 --> 00:58:16,850
is doing its job. Moving on to the

1071
00:58:16,850 --> 00:58:20,130
outlet. This picture came from the city and

1072
00:58:20,130 --> 00:58:22,370
I didn't have pictures of the outlet, so

1073
00:58:22,370 --> 00:58:25,010
I made up stuff. I just said it's

1074
00:58:25,010 --> 00:58:28,345
great, probably is great. The outflow structure too

1075
00:58:28,345 --> 00:58:31,705
looked great to me. And then in general,

1076
00:58:31,705 --> 00:58:36,105
I gave this BMP a great overall condition.

1077
00:58:36,505 --> 00:58:38,425
I said it looks the best that it

1078
00:58:38,425 --> 00:58:40,745
can be and nothing needs to be addressed

1079
00:58:40,745 --> 00:58:44,290
or changed. I did say that it wasn't

1080
00:58:44,290 --> 00:58:49,570
access restricted, but it appears that there's enough

1081
00:58:49,570 --> 00:58:53,250
of a landscape barrier that it's not really

1082
00:58:53,250 --> 00:58:56,130
vulnerable to mowing. One of the biggest failures

1083
00:58:56,405 --> 00:58:58,964
that I find with rain gardens is having

1084
00:58:58,964 --> 00:59:01,925
them accidentally be mowed. And I will say

1085
00:59:01,925 --> 00:59:07,125
what what we mean by access restricted. The

1086
00:59:07,685 --> 00:59:10,740
big thing would be, is someone going to

1087
00:59:10,740 --> 00:59:13,140
accidentally mow over it? Are you gonna be

1088
00:59:13,140 --> 00:59:15,700
like, wow, there are a lot of weeds

1089
00:59:15,700 --> 00:59:17,780
and grass. It's really tall. We should mow

1090
00:59:17,780 --> 00:59:20,500
that. Why did someone let this go? That

1091
00:59:20,500 --> 00:59:23,145
happens a lot. So we like to have

1092
00:59:23,145 --> 00:59:24,905
a little bit of a barrier, whether it's

1093
00:59:24,905 --> 00:59:27,785
the rocks, things like that. Just something that

1094
00:59:27,785 --> 00:59:30,745
indicates, like, don't actually mow it, don't go

1095
00:59:30,745 --> 00:59:34,105
in there. If it is a wet retention

1096
00:59:34,105 --> 00:59:36,905
pond, something like that that has a permanent

1097
00:59:36,940 --> 00:59:40,300
pool of water, we want, you know, more

1098
00:59:40,300 --> 00:59:43,180
access restriction like fences and stuff. We don't

1099
00:59:43,180 --> 00:59:47,260
want kids falling in to a pond or

1100
00:59:47,260 --> 00:59:50,540
anything like that. But we don't necessarily mean,

1101
00:59:50,540 --> 00:59:52,185
like, there has to be a fence around

1102
00:59:52,185 --> 00:59:55,385
every facility. It just, you know, needs to

1103
00:59:55,385 --> 00:59:58,105
be obvious enough that this is actually a

1104
00:59:58,105 --> 01:00:01,945
stormwater facility, stormwater asset that we're not going

1105
01:00:01,945 --> 01:00:06,089
to just mow over, ignore. But then now

1106
01:00:06,089 --> 01:00:07,930
we have the safety concerns too if there

1107
01:00:07,930 --> 01:00:12,089
is standing shelter. And with that, I'll open

1108
01:00:12,089 --> 01:00:17,609
it up to questions. Our friends that are

1109
01:00:17,609 --> 01:00:23,135
joining us virtually, I'm watching the chat more

1110
01:00:23,135 --> 01:00:26,655
closely. Don't see any questions from the chat,

1111
01:00:26,655 --> 01:00:29,855
but I'd like to take some time and

1112
01:00:29,855 --> 01:00:32,015
answer any questions that you might have or

1113
01:00:32,015 --> 01:00:36,560
even just discuss stormwater concerns that you are

1114
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:39,360
thinking about. I mean, we we have time.

1115
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:42,240
So a question or even just a discussion

1116
01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:44,000
that someone would like to open up would

1117
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:46,965
be, this is the time for it. Will

1118
01:00:46,965 --> 01:00:49,685
all the inspection forms be paper or will

1119
01:00:49,685 --> 01:00:51,685
the in the future be like, we're driving

1120
01:00:51,685 --> 01:00:53,925
just put down a link, fill it out,

1121
01:00:53,925 --> 01:00:57,125
submit it with the pictures attached? We would

1122
01:00:57,125 --> 01:00:58,805
like it to not be paper if it's

1123
01:00:58,805 --> 01:01:02,090
there. So we are trying to build it

1124
01:01:02,090 --> 01:01:04,490
database to where it it will be all

1125
01:01:04,730 --> 01:01:09,610
electronic. You can type your, you know, inspection

1126
01:01:09,690 --> 01:01:12,010
information on it, submit the pictures with it,

1127
01:01:12,010 --> 01:01:14,694
and then just upload it all. I don't

1128
01:01:14,694 --> 01:01:16,295
know if it'll be Google Drive. I don't

1129
01:01:16,295 --> 01:01:18,214
know if it'll be a database that the

1130
01:01:18,214 --> 01:01:21,734
city maintains or anything like that. But, yes,

1131
01:01:21,734 --> 01:01:23,895
we are trying to move to the electronic

1132
01:01:23,895 --> 01:01:29,015
versions only. The paper forms here are just

1133
01:01:29,015 --> 01:01:33,280
to, you know, start some. And we could

1134
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:35,920
do a PDF format too in the in

1135
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:39,200
the meantime. Yeah. Like it's it's notable PDF.

1136
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:45,119
But, yeah, the the paper was just a

1137
01:01:45,119 --> 01:01:49,495
little easier to give everyone. Also, really need

1138
01:01:49,495 --> 01:01:57,735
to staple 40 coffees. Yeah. Caitlin loves using

1139
01:01:57,735 --> 01:02:00,940
her master's degree staple paper. Yep. So do

1140
01:02:00,940 --> 01:02:02,540
I. I went to the school for this.

1141
01:02:06,300 --> 01:02:13,660
Any other questions? Comments? Yep. For a newer

1142
01:02:13,660 --> 01:02:15,535
project that supposed to have BMP is going

1143
01:02:15,535 --> 01:02:17,295
in the next few months, if everything gets

1144
01:02:17,295 --> 01:02:19,055
put in, like, August or something, will you

1145
01:02:19,055 --> 01:02:20,975
still hope to get a BMP inspection report

1146
01:02:20,975 --> 01:02:25,375
by December? Yes. Okay. Just because it would

1147
01:02:25,375 --> 01:02:28,415
be the establishment period. Mhmm. So once you

1148
01:02:28,415 --> 01:02:31,660
install it, you would want, you know, record

1149
01:02:31,660 --> 01:02:33,580
of that, that it is installed and it

1150
01:02:33,580 --> 01:02:36,060
is functioning. And we also do that as

1151
01:02:36,060 --> 01:02:37,900
a part of our final inspection for those

1152
01:02:37,900 --> 01:02:42,060
type of questions. So if you're you've submitted

1153
01:02:42,060 --> 01:02:43,980
plans for one and it calls out, like,

1154
01:02:44,075 --> 01:02:47,355
seeding with mated grass seed or forks or

1155
01:02:47,355 --> 01:02:49,355
something like that, we're probably not going to

1156
01:02:49,355 --> 01:02:52,395
close out that project until we have establishment

1157
01:02:52,395 --> 01:02:55,195
of those needs. So we are recommending that

1158
01:02:55,195 --> 01:02:57,630
people use gloves to make it put in

1159
01:02:57,630 --> 01:03:01,470
the library. So thank you. And I want

1160
01:03:01,470 --> 01:03:02,990
to also point out that you guys doing

1161
01:03:02,990 --> 01:03:05,630
these inspections and doing the required maintenance is

1162
01:03:05,630 --> 01:03:08,109
also protecting an investment that you made with

1163
01:03:08,109 --> 01:03:10,750
your property and your facility. So not only

1164
01:03:10,750 --> 01:03:12,515
is this good for us, for us in

1165
01:03:12,515 --> 01:03:14,595
the city to be in compliance, but it's

1166
01:03:14,595 --> 01:03:16,755
something that your facility paid for to have

1167
01:03:16,755 --> 01:03:19,635
installed. So if you're not maintaining it, you're

1168
01:03:19,635 --> 01:03:21,395
kind of wasting that money you've already spent

1169
01:03:21,395 --> 01:03:22,995
and then it costs more money to come

1170
01:03:22,995 --> 01:03:25,829
back in and fix it later. I'm like

1171
01:03:25,829 --> 01:03:27,589
paying you now, paying you later, how much

1172
01:03:27,589 --> 01:03:29,990
more expensive is it going to be later?

1173
01:03:30,869 --> 01:03:33,510
And the advantage to inspecting your BMP in

1174
01:03:33,510 --> 01:03:35,589
the first year is that it gives you

1175
01:03:35,589 --> 01:03:39,335
that baseline. Here's what it looked like when

1176
01:03:39,335 --> 01:03:43,015
it was new. And because I mean, I

1177
01:03:43,015 --> 01:03:46,775
do, we do work nationwide. If I didn't

1178
01:03:46,775 --> 01:03:48,454
have a picture of something I looked at

1179
01:03:48,454 --> 01:03:50,694
a year ago, I would not be able

1180
01:03:50,694 --> 01:03:53,270
to tell you what it originally looked like

1181
01:03:53,270 --> 01:03:56,150
or whether it was built a plan. So

1182
01:03:56,150 --> 01:03:59,430
it's just that institutional memory. It helps us

1183
01:03:59,430 --> 01:04:03,670
all. Yeah. And as long, like, we're not

1184
01:04:03,670 --> 01:04:06,150
going to score you badly or get mad

1185
01:04:06,150 --> 01:04:09,075
or anything if, like, your natives aren't established.

1186
01:04:09,155 --> 01:04:11,635
We know it takes time. So if you,

1187
01:04:11,635 --> 01:04:14,115
you know, do your inspection in August or

1188
01:04:14,115 --> 01:04:16,435
September and they're not all established, we know

1189
01:04:16,435 --> 01:04:20,780
that, and that's fine. Like I said, please

1190
01:04:20,780 --> 01:04:22,220
feel free to reach out to us. You

1191
01:04:22,220 --> 01:04:24,940
guys have my business cards. Sam's business card

1192
01:04:24,940 --> 01:04:27,100
is up at the sign in table. I

1193
01:04:27,100 --> 01:04:30,460
will send out all these documents, the training,

1194
01:04:30,460 --> 01:04:32,860
everything, so that you guys can go back

1195
01:04:32,860 --> 01:04:35,795
and review. There's a definition sheet that I'll

1196
01:04:35,795 --> 01:04:37,555
send out as well, because I realize some

1197
01:04:37,555 --> 01:04:40,275
of these terms are probably not as familiar

1198
01:04:40,275 --> 01:04:41,875
to you as they are to us who

1199
01:04:41,875 --> 01:04:43,474
are in the industry and work in it

1200
01:04:43,474 --> 01:04:46,434
all the time. But we want to protect

1201
01:04:46,434 --> 01:04:48,515
our water quality, we want to provide assistance,

1202
01:04:48,930 --> 01:04:50,849
We wanna save you guys money on your

1203
01:04:50,849 --> 01:04:52,530
property so that you don't have to completely

1204
01:04:52,530 --> 01:04:54,530
redo something that you already paid to have

1205
01:04:54,530 --> 01:04:57,650
installed. And also doing those initial inspections, it's

1206
01:04:57,650 --> 01:05:00,609
really important too to make sure that what

1207
01:05:00,609 --> 01:05:02,805
we were told that were going to get

1208
01:05:02,805 --> 01:05:04,405
as a part of your project is what

1209
01:05:04,405 --> 01:05:06,645
was installed and it was also installed to

1210
01:05:06,645 --> 01:05:08,724
your liking because it's your property and you

1211
01:05:08,724 --> 01:05:10,885
want to maintain it a certain way. So,

1212
01:05:10,885 --> 01:05:13,765
some of these facilities can be incredibly beautiful.

1213
01:05:14,165 --> 01:05:16,405
If anyone's aware of our stormwater mountain just

1214
01:05:16,405 --> 01:05:18,740
for the forming pond, that's something we do

1215
01:05:18,740 --> 01:05:20,099
put a lot of work and effort into

1216
01:05:20,099 --> 01:05:22,579
it, it's also gorgeous and it provides a

1217
01:05:22,579 --> 01:05:25,810
lot of habitat for our native pollinators, our

1218
01:05:25,810 --> 01:05:28,690
local wildlife. They were here first, so we

1219
01:05:28,690 --> 01:05:30,130
might as well learn to live with them

1220
01:05:30,130 --> 01:05:34,130
and provide them habitat for them. Does anyone

1221
01:05:34,130 --> 01:05:35,490
have any questions for me?