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Instructional resources for developing effective Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPP).
A guide to help you develop a good Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) Why? Stormwater runoff from construction sites can cause significant harm to our rivers, lakes, and coastal waters. A SWPPP is required (by your construction general permit) and will help you prevent stormwater pollution .
Stormwater Smart Outreach Tools. EPA has developed a collection of communication tools you can use to promote the value of sound stormwater management for creating a community where your residents want to live and work. Public works managers can use these as part of the public education and outreach efforts of their stormwater permit programs.
stormwater pollution prevention plan (SWPPP) that complies with a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) industrial stormwater permit issued by your state, territory or the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
This guide includes suggestions on how to develop a stormwater pollution prevention plan (SWPPP). This guide does not impose any new legally binding requirements on EPA, States, or the regulated community, and does not confer legal rights or impose legal obligations upon any member of the public.
Instructional resources for developing effective Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPP). You may need a PDF reader to view some of the files on this page. See EPA’s About PDF page to learn more.
In most cases, storm water flows directly to water bodies through sewer systems, contributing a major source of pollution to rivers, lakes, and the ocean. Storm water discharges in California are regulated through National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits.
SWPPP is an acronym for Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan. When stormwater drains away from a surface, it accumulates debris, sediments, chemicals, and more as it flows over land and impervious surfaces.
This booklet provides summary guidance on the development of storm water pollution prevention plans and identification of appropriate Best Management Practices (BMPs) for for construction activities.
Pollution conveyed by stormwater degrades the quality of drinking water, damages fisheries and habitat of plants and animals that depend on clean water for survival. Pollutants carried by stormwater can also affect recreational uses of waterbodies by making them unsafe for wading, swimming, boating and fishing.