D e p a r t m e n t ... Failure to Install Basic Sediment and Erosion Controls Can Be Costly!

D e p a r t m e n t o f P u b l i c Wo r k s
The City of Oklahoma City
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Storm Water Quality Management (405) 297-1774
Fourth Quarter, 2012
Waste Collection Event
2
Failure to Install Basic Sediment and
Erosion Controls Can Be Costly!
Industrial Workshop
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3
Another company has learned an expensive compliance lesson: EPA is deadly
serious about enforcing its storm water runoff control rules.
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EPA hit Toll Brothers Inc. with a huge $741,000 fine which reflects the
homebuilder’s failure to install storm water controls like silt fences, site grading and sediment basins.
Household Hazardous
COSWA Conference
Storm Water Activities
Wayne’s Snippet
Toll Brothers also failed to conduct required inspections to make sure runoff
controls worked properly.
EPA inspectors recorded the Clean Water Act violations at more than 600
construction sites across the country.
Storm water compliance is one of EPA’s top enforcement
priorities
Each site needs storm water manager
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Develop site-specific storm water plans at each site

Train construction managers and contractors on storm water rules

Conduct more frequent inspections than required by EPA rules and
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Designate trained storm water staff for each construction site
INFO: tinyurl.com/toll446
Environmental Compliance Alert
Reprinted with permission from Environmental Alert
It was a cold day but despite the inclement weather, 471 Oklahoma City residents braved the cool temperature and brought
approximately 83,000 pounds of unwanted ammunition, medicine, computers and tires to the State Fair Park on October 6,
2012 for proper disposal.
Household Hazardous Waste held its Fall collection event at the
State Fair Park. Collection events, held each spring and summer,
provide a way to discard unwanted hazardous waste products
that are normally not accepted at the permanent facility or
allowed in curbside bins.
Storm Water Quality Manager, Raymond Melton, says “The
State Department of Environmental Quality takes the tires as
part of one of its other programs. City police collect the ammunition and medication and a contract recycler takes the computer parts.”
The Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facility is operated by the Storm Water
Quality Division of the Public Works Department. Visit www.okc.gov for a list of
materials the facility accepts. For more information, call (405) 682
682--7038.
Jeremy Coffey, Supervisor
Rebecca Dallen, Techncian
Kevin Bahjat, Technician displays
a door prize
Vendor activities
Workshop breaks allow time
for Q&A and network with
vendors and their products.
Raymond Melton, SWQ Manager assists
lucky door prize winner
Dale Bruns Technician
Buckley Pearson, Technician
The Industrial Annual 2012 Fall workshop was held on October 2nd and 3rd in the
Education Center Auditorium at the OKC Zoo. Networking opportunities, the latest
rules and regulations, SWP3 examples and door prizes were just a few of the many
benefits offered at the workshop.
The 2012 Oklahoma Storm Water Conference,
held on November 7th and 8th, is sponMaking the Connection... Conference
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Raymond Melton, Storm Water
Quality Environmental Department Manager was keynote
speaker
for
local
retiree’s
luncheon.
Zenobia Napoleon, SWQ Outreach
Coordinator displays some of the
environmental materials used to
promote Storm Water education
programs and also to raise awareness to the danger of polluting
Oklahoma’s water-ways. Youth and
adults attended the Health Fair in
Yukon.
Kevin Bahjat, Environmental
Tech, discusses the program
and provides additional information in the form of brochures and promotional items
at Yukon’s Health Fair.
Departmental Contact Listings
Kevin
Wayne’s Water Snippet
Keep Turkey Grease Out
Storm Water Quality Management Division Office
420 West Main Street—3rd Floor (405) 297-1774
Eric J. Wenger
PE., Director/ Public Works /City Engineer
(405) 297-2581
Raymond Melton
Environmental Protection Manager
(405) 297-2179
Jeremy Coffey
Industrial Unit Supervisor
(405) 297-1778
David Phillips
Construction Unit Supervisor
(405) 297-3542
Derek Johnson
Environmental Unit Supervisor
(405) 297-1517
Lyndel Gibson, Facility Manager
Household Hazardous Waste
1621 South Portland
Oklahoma City, OK 73108
(405) 682-7038
of Your Drain!
What should you do with the five
gallons of used peanut oil?
Please don’t pour it down the drain
or on the ground. Fats, oils and
grease clog sewer lines and contaminate rivers and lakes.
Pour used oil back into the original
container and take it to the Household Hazardous Waste Collection
Facility, 1621 South Portland. You
can do so anytime of the year!
CITY NEWS NOVEMBER 2012
Keep our water clean!
www.okc.gov/SWQ
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