VA DEQ SWM INSPECTOR 2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Not until ground cover is achieved that is uniform, mature enough to survive, and will
inhibit erosion - ✔✔When permanent vegetation is considered established
✔✔Long-term maintenance agreement - ✔✔The legal agreement that provides a VSMP
inspector access to property for conducting post-construction regulatory inspections
✔✔These must be sealed and signed by a professional registered in Virginia and must
be submitted before permit termination - ✔✔Construction record drawings
✔✔Within 60 days of completing the requirements of the permit conditions - ✔✔When
must a locality VSMP authority return or terminate any bonds or securities provided by
the operator
✔✔ Erosion and sediment control plans and stormwater management plans -
✔✔SWPPP plans that must be approved
✔✔Post-construction - ✔✔When the stormwater management plan address runoff
✔✔Volume and velocity of stormwater runoff increases as natural vegetation is replaced
with these surfaces. The increase in stormwater runoff leads to an increase in
pollutants, such as sediment and phosphorus that are carried to waterways. -
✔✔Impervious cover
✔✔Target pollutant in the water quality criteria - ✔✔Phosphorus
✔✔The lower limit of the range of imperviousness that can result in stream
degradation% - ✔✔10%
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Not until ground cover is achieved that is uniform, mature enough to survive, and will
inhibit erosion - ✔✔When permanent vegetation is considered established
✔✔Long-term maintenance agreement - ✔✔The legal agreement that provides a VSMP
inspector access to property for conducting post-construction regulatory inspections
✔✔These must be sealed and signed by a professional registered in Virginia and must
be submitted before permit termination - ✔✔Construction record drawings
✔✔Within 60 days of completing the requirements of the permit conditions - ✔✔When
must a locality VSMP authority return or terminate any bonds or securities provided by
the operator
✔✔ Erosion and sediment control plans and stormwater management plans -
✔✔SWPPP plans that must be approved
✔✔Post-construction - ✔✔When the stormwater management plan address runoff
✔✔Volume and velocity of stormwater runoff increases as natural vegetation is replaced
with these surfaces. The increase in stormwater runoff leads to an increase in
pollutants, such as sediment and phosphorus that are carried to waterways. -
✔✔Impervious cover
✔✔Target pollutant in the water quality criteria - ✔✔Phosphorus
✔✔The lower limit of the range of imperviousness that can result in stream
degradation% - ✔✔10%
