CONSTRUCTION

Annual Compliance Certification

If you have been enrolled in the Construction Permit for over one year, please note that this Certification form is a replacement for the “Storm Water Annual Report for Construction Activities” that we have required in the past. Storm Water Annual Reports will not be required for the 2007-2008 reporting period.

If construction is complete and the site has been stabilized, you may submit a Notice of Termination (NOT) instead of the Annual Compliance Certification.

2007-2008 Annual Compliance Certification Form

General Permit

The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) adopted a statewide General Storm Water Permit for Construction Activities. The permit is reissued every 5 years. The last reissuance was in 1999 when the SWRCB adopted Order 99-08-DWQ. The permit requires all land disturbances of 1acre or more to implement Best Management Practices (BMPs) to prevent the discharge of sediment-laden water off site. The site specific plan to implement BMPs is called the Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP). Annual reports are due to our office each September 1. These reports include information about the site topography and the BMPs that were used to prevent erosion during the rainy season.

Modifications

Following the reissuance of the Construction Permit, the SWRCB was sued by the San Francisco, Santa Monica, San Diego, and Orange Coast Bay Keepers. In September of 2000, the Superior Court ordered the SWRCB to modify the permit to require permittees to implement specific sampling and analytical procedures to determine whether BMPs implemented on a construction site are: (1) preventing further impairment of 303(d) listed water bodies for sediment or silt by storm water discharges, and (2) preventing pollutants, that are known or should be known by permittees to occur on construction sites and that are not visually detectable in storm water discharges, from causing or contributing to exceedances of water quality objectives.

The monitoring provisions in the permit were modified pursuant to the court order in April of 2001. The permit now also requires:
1. All permitted construction sites to sample for pollutants that can not be seen in the runoff if there is reason to believe those pollutants may be present in the runoff.
2. All permitted construction sites that discharge directly to 303(d) listed water bodies that are impaired by Sediment/Silt to sample the receiving water upstream and downstream every storm event (not to exceed 4 events/month).