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1. LDP Land Developing Projects - altering landscape for projects such as agriculture or
housing ect.
2. NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
- section of the CWA (Clean Water Act) to permit stormwater discharges associated
w industrial activities PER permit
3. CWA Penalty Adminstrative
Types Class I. Neglegent
Class II. Knowlingly = greater fines
4. What documents - SWPPP
are required on - CGP
site? - Site Map
- Drawings and Key
- All inspection reports
- Any amendments to SWPPP
5. Who is the "op- Usually the OWNER of the site, not the contractor, unless authorized by the owner
erator"? Also the to general contractor to have day-to-day operational control!
LRP.
6. When do you Required from start to end of project. "End" being the final vegetative/non-vege-
need permit cov- tative (concrete) stabilization occuring.
erage?
For any project one acre or greater.
7. Large Land De- -strips ott all existing vegetation a.k.a site carving
velopment -usually on hillsides and steep slopes
-installation of untilities that tear up large areas of land
8. Vertical Projects
, 2
- Homebuilding, smaller residence construction projects
-usually multiple subcontractors
-requires lots of housekeeping = mass choas
9. Bix Box Projects -commercial buildings
-mass grading and mass choas
-highly visible w/ fairly large footprint
10. Linear Projects -roadways, utilities, and stream corridors
-long narrow sites and mass choas
-limites site access and continually changing (high activity)
11. What is erosion? The process by which soil particle get displaced by the act of wind of water.
12. What are the 1. Creep - causes sand dunes
three types of <10%
Wind Erosion? -large particle that roll across a terrain
2. Saltation - bouncing particles that DISLODGE more particles, then fall back
down
~50-80%
- stay relatively close to ground
3. Suspesion - suspended way up into the atmosphere
~ 5-25%
-light weight soil particles dusted in the air
13. Which method Saltation
of wind erosion
moves the most
soil?
14. Raindrop erosion
Sheet erosion