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Pollution Prevention & Good Housekeeping Program

The City of Arlington has been under continuous MS4 coverage since 1998 , therefore some of the components of this MCM such as reduction of pollutants from pesticide , herbicide , and fertilizer use , the maintenance of structural controls , and waste handling procedures were previously established prior to this new program element . For the remaining requirements ( employee training and discharge reduction from municipal facilities and operations ), staff conducts facility inspections and employee training with the goal of preventing and / or reducing pollutant runoff .

The City of Arlington PPGH program is three-phased to include facility inspections , training , and operations assessments and certification . Environmental Management Group is responsible for conducting PPGH inspections for all city owned and operated facilities . There are 95 identified PP / GH sites with multiple facilities nested within that are owned and / or leased by the City of Arlington . Nine ( 9 ) of these sites are currently leased to other organizations and are not maintained by the City of Arlington . They are EXEMPT from PPGH inspections . As such , there are 86 sites with multiple nested facilities that are currently included in the PPGH inspection program . Facilities are delineated by non-hot spot status or “ hot spot ”/ high priority status – i . e . there is potential for discharge from these facilities to the MS4 . There are a total of twenty-five ( 25 ) hot spot sites with multiple nested facilities and a total of sixty-one ( 61 ) non-hot spot sites . Hot spot sites are inspected annually . Non-hot spot sites are inspected once in a permit term or every five years . In FY21 , a total of 24 PP / GH inspections were conducted . The following tables outline inspections , training , and operations assessments and certifications related to the PPGH program .

PPGH Inspections :

31