To build a strong SWPPP for your facility’s stormwater management, it is important to make sure that you pay attention to the details.
Ensuring that the SWPPP (stormwater pollution prevention plan) for stormwater management is done to the highest of standards in your unit or facility, it is important to make sure that you have all your ducks in a row. Essentially, you need to take care of all the important building blocks of the SWPPP so that you can have the perfect synergy of tools and resources that you need to be successful in your endeavor. At the end of the day, you cannot just read the material that you need to use off a manual and implement it at your facility. You actually not only need to have a clear understanding of what SWPPP is all about, but you also need to be conscious about your facility and what nuances you have to deal with in order to ensure that SWPPP is done in the right way that suits your needs. With this in mind, below are some of the more important considerations that you will need to keep in mind if you want to make sure that you are successful.
One of the most important things that you have to so if you want to build a strong SWPPP is to make sure that you have the right team and people in place to execute the things that you need to do in order to have a strong SWPPP. Essentially, if you want to have strong stormwater management, it is critical to make sure that you not only have people in place to do what you need, but the people that you have in place to do what you require need to work like a well synergized team so that you can benefit from efficiencies and the effectiveness. It is definitely a good idea to make sure that the people that you assign to the SWPPP team are people that have training or that can easily learn through training. Once you are able to do this then the rest of the things that you need to do will be that much easier for you to implement as long as you have the willingness to make a difference for the better.
As mentioned above, having a team in place is useful and so is having the right kind of policies and rules for everyone at the facility to follow. Essentially, the SWPPP team should be able to work with everyone else and build policies that make it a lot easier for the whole facility to function, especially with regards to SWPPP. When this is done, you will find that stormwater solutions become an organization-wide effort instead of just an effort that is run by the SWPPP team. Instead, the SWPPP becomes the tip of the spear and the rest of the staff in the organization the support that is required to do things in the best way as they should be done.
