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SANTA CLARA COUNTY CODE OF ORDINANCES: Sec. B11 1/2-14. Construction Site Best Management Practices (BMPs).

Copyrighted by SANTA CLARA COUNTY CODE & Municipal Code Corporation, 1998.

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Sec. B11 1/2-14. Construction Site Best Management Practices (BMPs).

All construction sites shall be maintained in accordance with the following requirements:

(a) Garbage, trash, and refuse shall be stored in a covered receptacle and then removed to a sanitary landfill. Piles or stacks of wood waste, hardened concrete, hardened plaster, dried paint, and concrete demolition rubble are exempt from this storage receptacle requirement. Materials that are exempt from the covered receptacle requirement must be covered with waterproof tarps during the rainy season, until disposed of at a sanitary landfill.

(b) A lined pit or basin shall be provided for concrete, plaster, and wallboard compound washout, in order for it dry to solid matter. When these materials have dried and hardened, they shall be disposed of in the trash receptacle.

(c) Hazardous materials shall be stored as required by the Santa Clara County Ordinance Code, Division B11, Chapters XIII, XIV, and XV.

(d) Nearby storm drain inlets shall be protected by appropriate BMPs, such as filter fabric, rock filled filter bags, sand bags and proprietary filtration devices.

(e) Erosion prevention and sediment control measures shall be followed as required by the Santa Clara County Ordinance Code, Division C12, Chapter III, consistent with the measures outlined on the approved building and/or grading plans.

(f) Temporary sedimentation basins or sedimentation tanks or similar measures are required to settle and/or filter turbid or muddy discharges of pumped groundwater or surface water flowing from construction sites.

(Ord. No. NS-517.74, § 1, 10-17-06)

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