Pre-Construction Planning for Property Owners is part of
the UVI-CES VI*A*Syst Program.
The VI*A*Syst Assessment
is a tool that can help you conduct a complete environmental
assessment of your home, yard, business and/or farm. The VI*A*Syst
Assessment uses a simple YES
or NO checklist of questions
about specific topics, such as planning your construction
project. Depending on your answer to the questions, you will
be directed to a matching factsheet that will give you more
detailed information on the topic. The factsheets will also
help you develop an Action Plan to implement practices or
change behaviors to protect your family's health, your property
values, and the environment. Simple and low cost individual
activities go a long way in preventing pollution!
Download
the Erosion Control
on Small Construction Sites factsheet in Adobe
Acrobat format here. (You can also download information
on environmental landscaping with the V.I.
Beauty Begins With Your Yard brochure.) Click the Adobe
button to download Adobe
Acrobat Reader to view and print our publications.
UVI-CES also offers workshops and presentations for residents,
realtors and prospective property owners to learn how to assess
their property and plan their construction project to protect
conserve resources, save money & protect the environment.
The Pre-Construction Planning
for Property Owners workshop provides our
clients with the following information:
- Assessing Your Site Conditions –
The Key to Pollution Prevention:
- Identifying Physical Characteristics
of Property
1. Soils
2. Slopes
3. Hydrology
4. Vegetation
- Soil Filtering & Pollution
Risk Levels of Different Soils
- Information to Provide on a Site
Plan/Map
- Developing an Earth Change Plan
- Pre-Earth Change Practices
1. Preserving & protecting native plants & habitats
2. Buffers by waterbodies (guts, ponds, shorelines)
3. Perimeter dikes & swales
4. Silt fences
- During Earth Change Practices
1. Stabilized construction entrance/exit
2. Temporary seeding
3. Retaining walls
4. Mulches, mats & geotextiles
- Post-Earth Change Practices:
Environmental Landscaping
1. Permanent seeding & planting / incorporating native
plants into the landscape
2. Porous paving
3. Rain gardens
Click here to view our PreConstruction
Planning workshop presentation. You can
also view our Environmental
Landscaping presentation. Visit our Water
Quality Publications page to download more factsheets
and publications on conserving soil, water and plants on your
property. For more information on erosion control, construction
planning and environmental landscaping, contact Dale
Morton at 340-693-1086.
Sites for More Construction Planning/Environmental
Landscaping Info:
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