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Environmental audits are not one-size-fits-all. The right audit depends on your business goals, regulatory exposure, and operational risk. For manufacturers, developers, property owners, and facility managers, choosing the correct audit can help reduce liability, prevent violations, and improve overall performance.
Continue reading “Environmental Audits Explained: Which Type You Need and Why”
Summer brings heat, humidity, high winds, intense rainfall, and flash flooding that can turn small weaknesses in oil storage and handling systems into costly releases. For facilities that store oil, fuel, hydraulic fluid, fats, or other regulated petroleum products, this season is the right time to review your Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plan. A proactive review can help reduce environmental risk, support compliance, and protect operations before the next storm hits. Continue reading “Are Summer Showers Putting Your SPCC Compliance at Risk?”
As stormwater reporting and inspection deadlines approach, including Annual Report submissions, facilities should take time to evaluate whether their Stormwater Best Management Practices (BMPs) are functioning as intended. Many enforcement actions and Notices of Violation (NOVs) primarily stem from poor implementation of BMPs, inadequate maintenance, and insufficient documentation.
Understanding the most common mistakes can help facilities reduce compliance risk before inspections and reporting deadlines arrive. Continue reading “Storm Water Best Management Practices: Common Implementation Mistakes That Lead to Violations”
With a new year comes the never-ending requirements for environmental permit submittals, agency notifications, and chemical reporting. Because of these requirements it is always important for a facility to examine upcoming environmental deadlines. This ensures that the facility maintains current knowledge of its environmental obligations and lays the foundation for annual planning to meet those obligations.
The following is a compilation of a wide range of environmental deadlines in 2025 that may assist your facility in preparing to maintain environmental compliance in the upcoming year: Continue reading “2025 Environmental Deadlines”
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates dry kiln condensate in 40 CFR 429.130 under the “Finishing” subcategory. The EPA asserts that there shall be no discharge of process wastewater pollutants into navigable water. Furthermore, lumber manufacturers are subject to Industrial Stormwater Permitting Regulations under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES). Lumber manufacturers are covered under Sector A: Timber Products of the EPA’s Multi-Sector General Permit (MSGP), which states that as a process water discharge, kiln condensate is considered a non-allowable stormwater discharge. Section 6 of the MSGP states that any discharges not expressly authorized in the MSGP cannot become authorized or shielded from liability under the Clean Water Act section 402(k), preventing state environmental divisions from permitting kiln condensate to discharge into state waters. Because of the multiple layers of regulations, there can be no direct discharge of kiln condensate to state waters, regardless of how well the kiln condensate is treated. Continue reading “Discharge of Lumber Dry Kiln Condensate”
With a new year comes the never-ending requirements for environmental permit submittals, agency notifications, and chemical reporting. Because of these requirements it is always important for a facility to examine upcoming environmental deadlines. This ensures that the facility maintains current knowledge of its environmental obligations and lays the foundation for annual planning to meet those obligations.
The following is a compilation of a wide range of environmental deadlines in 2025 that may assist your facility in preparing to maintain environmental compliance in the upcoming year: Continue reading “2025 Environmental Deadlines”
With the issuance of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division’s (EPD) 2022 Industrial General Stormwater Permit (IGP), several changes were made to stormwater monitoring requirements.
Continue reading “NetDMR Account Creation, Facility Association, & DMR Submittal”
The Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) calendar year 2022 Annual Reports are due to be submitted by January 31, 2023. The Annual Reports will need to be submitted through the EPD’s online portal GEOS located at https://geos.epd.georgia.gov/GA/GEOS/Public/GovEnt/Shared/Pages/Main/Login.aspx.
The new Annual Report format for the 2022 Industrial General Storm Water Permit (IGP) has not yet been populated in the GEOS portal; however, it should be available early January. In preparation to submit the annual report the Responsible Official (RO) will need to collect compliance data for calendar year 2022 such as: Continue reading “Georgia EPD Annual Reports Requirements”
Upcoming changes with the release of the GA EPD 2022 stormwater permit that may affect/impact your facility: Continue reading “What to expect with the release of the 2022 GA Stormwater Permit”
What is the General Stormwater Permit?
Most facilities that conduct industrial activity exposed to stormwater are familiar with the NPDES Industrial Storm Water General Permit and are aware that it is issued by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD). The current General Stormwater Permit was issued in March 2017 and will continue through May 2022. This is the earliest effective date for reissuance of the permit. Facilities with a permit are authorized to discharge stormwater associated with industrial activity to the waters of the state of Georgia in accordance with the limitations, monitoring requirements and other conditions set forth in the permit.
What is the Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan? Continue reading “Staying in Compliance with Your General Stormwater Permit”
