LEED Certification for Homes – SS PREREQUISITE: CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY POLLUTION PREVENTION

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Requirements

HOMES, MIDRISE

  • Stockpile and protect disturbed topsoil from erosion (for reuse).

  • Control the path and velocity of runoff with silt fencing or comparable measures.

  • Protect on-site storm sewer inlets, streams, and lakes with straw bales, silt fencing, silt sacks, rock filters, or comparable measures.

  • Provide swales to divert surface water from hillsides.

  • Use tiers, erosion blankets, compost blankets, filter socks, berms, or comparable measures to stabilize soils in any area with a slope of 15% (6.6:1) or more that is disturbed during construction.

  • Prevent air pollution from dust and particulate matter.

  • Construction sites larger than 1 acre must conform to the erosion and sedimentation requirements of the 2012 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Construction General Permit or local equivalent, whichever are more stringent.

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