Pond Patrol: Ensuring Water Quality with Inspection
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Pond Patrol: Ensuring Water Quality with Inspection
Date: 23 January 2024 | USA
Time: 1:00PM Mountain Time
Presented by: Rachel Henderson, Stormwater Technician & Alexandra O'Connor, Stormwater Coordinator | City of San Marcos
Level: Intermediate
Duration: 1 hour
Type of Course: Webinar - Live
Structural Controls are implemented to manage flooding and maintain water quality within urban watersheds, however they require routine inspections and maintenance to function as designed. The City of San Marcos implemented a successful inspection/maintenance program on a shoe- string budget, and our program has inspired other cities in Texas to start their own. In 2016, the San Marcos City Council passed an ordinance which included Section 86.531- Maintenance and Repair of Structural Controls, laying the groundwork for what would become our Post Construction Structural Control Inspection Program. The ordinance reinforced our city’s requirement for all existing and new Stormwater Management Structural Controls on private and city owned property to be inspected annually by a pre-qualified engineer. In 2020, the ordinance was updated from annual to triennial (once every three years) inspections.
The decision to have a ‘hybrid’ style inspection program was based on the procedures of larger city’s but with concessions made for our existing personnel and budget constraints. Our experiences in developing and launching this program without a clear playbook has been challenging and ever evolving. However, after seven years of administering this program our department has learned several lessons that could be helpful for other municipalities of comparable size to tackle this type of project. By sharing our challenges and solutions, we hope to help other cities with alternatives for these type of inspection programs that can better fit a smaller city’s budget.
Learning Objective:
- Attendees will learn how to develop a structural control (water quality and detention) inspection program.
- This inspection program was designed to be implemented with municipal budgets and limited resources.
- A city-wide structural control inspection program must gain support from the community and municipal decision makers. Attendees will learn how to promote a structural control inspection program by focusing on public and environmental health and safety.
Alexandra O'Connor
Stormwater Coordinator
City of San Marcos
Alex O’Connor is a CISEC (#2145) with over 15 years of experience in environmental compliance focused on stormwater management and the Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) permitting. Alex works for the City of San Marcos as the Stormwater Coordinator where she manages the City’s Phase II Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permit. Alex has extensive experience in stormwater inspections, best management practices, chemical wastes, Tier II reporting, spill response, Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) plans, Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments and Geologic Assessments.
Rachel Henderson
Stormwater Technician
City of San Marcos
Rachel Henderson is a CISEC (#3854) and holds a bachelor’s degree in Resource and Environmental Studies from Texas State University. She currently works for the City of San Marcos as a stormwater technician where she assists in managing and implementing the City’s Phase II Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permit. Her specialties include stormwater compliance operations, GIS applications, state and federal environmental regulations including stormwater inspections, best management practices, spill response and Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) plans.
This event is worth one (1) Professional Development Hours.
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