Thursday, April 10, 2014

Storm Water Thoughts...Are compromised inspection standards the new norm?


We spend a great deal of our time working with many different owners, general contractors and agencies performing storm water compliance inspections. The surprising thing is that there appears to be at least one organization out there that is promising to pencil whip QSP reports on a monthly basis, after providing the contractor with token training. The CGP clearly states that a QSP can delegate the inspection to a properly trained individual. I don't have a problem with this approach when we control the site, i.e. we are both employees of the general contractor. I don't understand how an outside QSP Inspector can claim to have control over a contractor if the site is not inspected weekly by the contract Inspector. As an organization, our approach is to not delegate to the contractor ensuring that there is a clear line between the Inspector and the contractor, i.e. the inspector inspects and the contractor implements the fixes identified by the inspector. To approach inspections in any other way, is to deviate from the original spirit of the regulation and potentially puts your LRP at risk. One of my inspectors came to me today and told me of a conservation with a contractor who had recently completed a project using one of these fly-by-night QSP services. The contractor stated that this QSP service had told him not to sweat the pencil whipped reports, as the State wasn't paying attention anyway.


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