Helping Businesses Prevent Pollution

Through our business inspection program, we help businesses identify and address operational and structural sources of stormwater pollution. We offer technical support on pollution prevention best practices, and how to comply with City codes. Our hope is this will save businesses costly cleanup of spills, as well as protect their investments, employees, customers, and our community.

What we’re doing:

• Maintain a business inventory including 415 private and 111 public sites. We inspect 20% of our inventory annually.
• Review and update the current business inventory list.
• Send letters providing information about our program, including best practices to prevent stormwater pollution and a link to the City’s Business Pollution Prevention webpage.
• Distribute spill kits to Key businesses like welding shops, small appliance repair shops, restaurants, convenience stores, and coffee stands.
• Distribute spill plan form to businesses that do not have a current spill plan for their site.
• Provide information to owners of commercial buildings constructed between 1950-1979 regarding the identification and assessment of building materials with the potential to contain PCBs. We provide building wash down best practices to eliminate PCBs from entering the stormwater system.