Sediment & Erosion Control on Construction Sites

A certified contractor has to complete one eight-hour training course in erosion control practices that is available through the Maine Nonpoint Source Training and Resource Center or its designee.

We are seeing bioswales, sediment ponds being turned into either dry or wet ponds, and we are starting to see a little bit of a movement of potential green roofs on a smaller scale, but I think that is going to be a bigger deal in the metro area,” he says.

Increased emphasis on surface water quality by federal, state and local regulatory agencies requires owners, developers and contractors to ensure that their site development does not result in soil erosion and sediment transport that will degrade surface or ground water quality