ENGINEERING Project Experience

Infrastructure Management

Districtwide National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

(NPDES) Permit Compliance Contract

Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), District Five

E Sciences provides NPDES permit implementation and compliance services to the District service area, including Seminole, Orange, Volusia, Brevard, Marion, Flagler, Osceola, Sumter, and Lake Counties. Compliance activities are ongoing within the Phase I and Phase II municipalities and counties.  To date, program activities have included:

• Structure inventories and mapping
• Stormwater facility inspections
• Outfall inspections/dry weather screening
• Illicit discharge inspections
• High risk industrial facility inventories and inspections
• Seasonal pollutant load and event mean concentration modeling
• GIS development and maintenance
• Coordination with maintenance forces
• Maintenance work order development
• System retrofit design
• Relational database development, modifications and maintenance
• TMDL and BMAP program coordination
• Stormwater sampling
• Construction permitting
• Construction compliance inspections
• Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination (IDDE) training
• System mapping and inventories
• Stormwater management plan development
• Public education and outreach
• Public involvement and participation
• Pollution prevention and good housekeeping
• Development of Phase I and Phase II NPDES MS4 Permit annual reports

Infrastructure Management

Districtwide Environmental Compliance and Permitting Contract

Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), District Five

E Sciences is under contract with FDOT District Five to provide ongoing environmental compliance and permitting services.  Our professional staff provides regular assessment of approximately 700 stormwater facilities across the nine-county area.  Evaluations include inspection of each facility, determination of functional compliance, reporting, and follow up for recommended maintenance. 

E Sciences conducts reviews of permit submittals, provides guidance regarding regulatory programs, obtains permits for complex transportation projects, and provides mitigation monitoring and maintenance services for numerous freshwater and estuarine mitigation sites and mitigation banks in District Five.

Infrastructure Management

Stormwater Facility Environmental Maintenance and Monitoring

Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), District Four

E Sciences conducted routine environmental maintenance of 11 FDOT stormwater management facilities associated with state roadways in the District service area of Broward, Palm Beach, St. Lucie, Martin and Indian River Counties. Activities included controlling nuisance species, such as hydrilla, within the ponds and maintaining surrounding wetland and upland vegetation, installing supplemental native plantings as necessary and conducting routine wetland monitoring of wetland mitigation areas constructed as part of stormwater management facilities.  As part of our services, wetland monitoring reports were submitted to the FDOT and other regulatory agencies.

Infrastructure Management

General Environmental Continuing Services Contract

Seminole County, FL

E Sciences has provided a variety of services under this contract, including:

• Providing training for County staff on the FDEP Erosion and Sediment Control certification process
• Providing water quality sampling on the County’s exploratory Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) well program
• Performing Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments on County-owned properties and properties targeted for acquisition
• Performing ongoing ecological monitoring and maintenance at the site of the County’s Cameron Ditch/Navy Canal Regional Stormwater Facility
• Performing Site Assessment and Remediation at the former Auto World Used Cars facility located in Sanford along the US 17-92 Brownfield corridor
• Performing aboveground storage tank (AST) compliance inspections at the Geneva Landfill
• Performing underground storage tank (UST) compliance inspections at the Fleet fueling facility

Infrastructure Management

Districtwide Environmental Compliance and Permitting Contract

Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), District Four

E Sciences inspects all FDOT projects under construction in District Four.  At the start of each project, E Sciences inspected the project files, including the Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) and Erosion Control Plan (ECP), rainfall log and permit files, met with the contractor to review their procedures for updating the SWPPP and implementing the SWPPP and ECP, and walked the site to inspect installed erosion controls.  Project inspections would continue at least quarterly, or more often, depending on the site conditions.  E Sciences also tracks each project to ensure the reports required by the Water Management Districts (Annual Reports, Project Completion Reports) were submitted.  Additionally, our staff developed an Access database to allow District Construction to track permits.  E Sciences also taught FDEP-certified Stormwater, Erosion and Sedimentation Control Inspector’s training classes for FDOT personnel and contractors.

Infrastructure Management

Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) Compliance Inspections,

Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport, FL

E Sciences provided technical oversight of the annual compliance inspection of airport tenants to comply with the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport SWPPP. Numerous tenant spaces were inspected to review best management practices and development of recommendations for improvements.  Technical oversight included conducting quality assurance review in the field.

Infrastructure Management

Stormwater Infrastructure Management, Osceola County, FL

E Sciences’ staff member, Richard Earp, developed a systematic program to inventory, inspect, and maintain stormwater infrastructure throughout Osceola County during his tenure as Osceola County engineer.  This project included the creation of a database to store and retrieve information, development of inspection protocols, research of plans and specifications, and implementation of a maintenance program that focused on identifying and prioritizing capital projects and maintenance activities to maximize cost effectiveness and overall efficiency.

Infrastructure Management

Districtwide Implementation and Maintenance of NPDES Permits

Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), District Four

E Sciences oversees compliance activities for the FDOT Phase I and Phase II MS4 NPDES permits for Broward, Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, and Indian River Counties.  This includes scheduling and coordinating inspections of stormwater treatment facilities and outfalls; obtaining as-built plans and Environmental Resource Permits for use in evaluating compliance; preparing inspection reports; providing a summary of recommended maintenance needed to ensure functionality; coordination with maintenance staff and contractors; and updating the GIS database with links to inspection reports and applicable plans. In addition we update the high risk industrial facility inventory on an annual basis and conduct inspections.

We also conduct inspections of FDOT maintenance facilities to verify Best Management Practices (BMPs) are being followed; the inspection report rates each area of the yard (ex: Fueling Areas, Material Storage Areas) as Good, Fair or Poor and provides a brief description of observations and, when needed, recommendations for improvements.  We provide annual NPDES training at each of the maintenance facilities.  This training includes illicit discharge, detection, and elimination and spill prevention and response procedures. 

Additional tasks include maintenance of the stormwater system inventory in a GIS database, coordination with agencies and co-permittees, preparation of Annual Reports for submittal to FDEP, and support during the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) and Basin Management Action Plan (BMAP) process, which includes participation in stakeholder meetings, response to FDEP’s requests for data, and evaluation of load allocations, pollutant load reduction goals, and treatment credits.