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WATER QUALITY

Frog keeps your business compliant with the complex and ever-changing landscape of Environment, Health, and Safety regulations.     

     

Maintaining water quality is a key responsibility of any facility. Frog Environmental provides a complete suite of water quality services to assist you with achieving compliance. Frog consultants are trained and certified to handle all aspects of water quality, including industrial and construction storm water, wastewater, winery orders, and agriculture orders. Our staff has over 250 years of combined experience in storm water consulting. From planning and permitting to monitoring and reporting, our services ensure compliance with even the strictest federal, state, and local regulations across the nation.  We take pride in being one of the only true turn-key solutions to water quality management, offering our clients BMPs and patented water treatment technology in addition to our hands-on consulting services.

Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) Development

Frog Environmental begins the SWPPP Development process by performing a site walk. A QISP will evaluate your industrial facility, assess your potential pollutants sources and recommend cost-effective Best Management Practices (BMPs) to reduce pollutants in your storm water run-off. Our QISPs will tell you specifically what BMPs you must implement, but also what else you can do for cleaner results. Our site-specific plans are clear, concise, and expertly written to comply with the stringent regulations of The California’s State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) Industrial General Permit 2014-0057-DWQ (IGP) for storm water discharges.


Our SWPPP will establish storm water outfalls and sampling points, as well as include a facility diagram, a potential pollutant diagram, and a monitoring diagram, and monitoring implementation plan (MIP). Your existing SWPPP can be updated to bring it into compliance with 2018 IGP Amendments and new TMDL regulations, or we can create a brand new SWPPP for facilities that have never had one.

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Storm Water Monitoring Services

The IGP requires industrial businesses within a specific set of SIC codes to comply with California Storm Water Permit monitoring requirements. Frog Environmental partners with industrial companies to provide the services needed to fully and affordably comply with the State Water Board. Frog creates easy-to-use Monitoring Plans with all required Monthly Visual Observation Forms and Sampling Event Visual  Observation Forms. When we visit your site, we go over records review, BMP assessment, general compliance and more. We will train your Pollution Prevention Team, or your entire staff, in BMP implementation, proper sampling protocols, and record keeping methods. We issue your company e-mailed rain alerts to notify  of pending storm events so you can be prepared. We also will complete your Annual Report for you. All you need to do is certify the report on the SMARTS database. 

Our clients have found our monitoring services to be an extremely convenient and cost-effective way to maintain compliance, reduce risk, and gain peace of mind.


Storm Water Run-Off Sampling

The IGP requires industrial businesses within a specific set of SIC codes to comply with California Storm Water Permit monitoring requirements. Frog Environmental partners with industrial companies to provide the services needed to fully and affordably comply with the State Water Board. Frog creates easy-to-use Monitoring Plans with all required Monthly Visual Observation Forms and Sampling Event Visual  Observation Forms. When we visit your site, we go over records review, BMP assessment, general compliance and more. We will train your Pollution Prevention Team, or your entire staff, in BMP implementation, proper sampling protocols, and record keeping methods. We issue your company e-mailed rain alerts to notify  of pending storm events so you can be prepared. We also will complete your Annual Report for you. All you need to do is certify the report on the SMARTS database. 

Our clients have found our monitoring services to be an extremely convenient and cost-effective way to maintain compliance, reduce risk, and gain peace of mind.


Best Management Practices (BMP) Assessment

Minimum and Advanced BMPs are required by the IGP and are a critical component of compliance.  Implementing the appropriate site-specific BMPs will prevent storm water discharge exceedances and is a significant step towards ensuring compliance.  Frog has extensive, wide-ranging experience recommending and implementing facility BMP programs.  We’ll assist with planning, BMP design, implementation, and ongoing program oversight.


Industrial Wastewater Services

Any business which generates, handles, or disposes of industrial wastewater must obtain an industrial waste disposal permit for the discharge of wastewater to sanitary sewers, private disposal systems, or offsite disposal. Businesses must comply with applicable Federal, State, local domestic and industrial waste regulations. EPA has developed regulations for over thirty industrial categories which are based on the wastewater effluent quality that can be achieved using established treatment technologies. Specific regulations and effluent limitations are set for each industrial category. 


Slug Discharge Control Plans (SDCP)

The SDCP is required for facilities that have a waste discharge permit and experience non-routine discharges to their wastewater systems that are episodic in nature, including accidental spills or non-customary batch discharges. The plan can be required by sanitation districts when a facility is considered to have a reasonable potential to cause interference or pass through, or in any other way violate applicable ordinances, local limits or permit conditions. In layman’s terms, a “slug” is any unplanned discharge into the sewer that the facility is not permitted to discharge. The purpose of an SDCP is to evaluate possible sources of slug discharges and have a plan in place to prevent it from happening.

Winery Order
The recently adopted Winery General Order is a general waste discharge requirements (WDRs) order for wineries and other similar facilities with activities related to producing wine or grape juice that generate winery waste and discharge it to land for reuse or disposal. Facilities that discharge winery waste to land for the purpose of disposal or reuse are eligible for coverage under this General Order. Reuse activities include the use of treated process water for agricultural or landscape irrigation and the use of residual solids from winery processing as a soil amendment. For the purposes of this General Order, winery waste includes, but is not limited to, wine, grape juice, winery process water, and winery process solids. Winery process water includes, but is not limited to, wash water, cooling water, and stormwater directed through the process water collection, treatment, or disposal system and/or land applied (i.e. pond, leach field, land application area). Winery process solids include, but are not limited to, leaves, stems, pomace (grape skins, seeds, and pulp), lees (yeast and other fine particulates), bentonite, and diatomaceous earth. The application requirements, fees, and monitoring and reporting requirements are connected to, and commensurate with, the complexity of the discharge regulated under each tier. Frog can assist wineries with determining their respective tier and compliance requirements, and with the ongoing management of those requirements.

Construction Storm Water

Construction activities that result in soil disturbances of at least one acre of total land area or is part of a larger common plan of development are subject to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit for Storm Water Discharges Associated with Construction Activity (Construction General Permit). Construction activity includes clearing, grading, excavation, stockpiling, and reconstruction of existing facilities involving removal and replacement. Frog Environmental storm water construction experts are experienced in storm water permitting, site monitoring and inspections, and providing design and implementation of best management practices (BMPs) to minimize pollutant exposure. Our construction clients count on us to stay compliant and adhere to SWPPP regulations.


    • What You need to Know

The Construction General Permit Order 2009-0009-DWQ, has been administratively extended until a new order is adopted and becomes effective.

Dischargers whose projects disturb one (1) or more acres of soil or whose projects disturb less than one acre but are part of a larger common plan of               development that in total disturbs one or more acres, are required to obtain coverage under the General Permit for Discharges of Storm Water Associated with   Construction Activity Construction General Permit Order 2009-0009-DWQ. Construction activity subject to this permit includes clearing, grading and   disturbances to the ground such as stockpiling, or excavation, but does not include regular maintenance activities performed to restore the original line, grade, or   capacity of the facility.



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