Insights
Explainers on Legionella testing, SWPPP, dewatering, remediation, soil management, and other sectors, written for the stakeholders who have to navigate them.
When NYC investigates a Legionnaires' disease cluster, cooling tower owners in the area can be ordered to clean, disinfect, and retest on short notice. Here's how the investigation actually unfolds — PCR screening, culture confirmation, and where owners fit in.
Read →Every NYC cooling tower needs a written Maintenance Program and Plan before startup. Here's what the document actually has to contain — and why it's the operating manual regulators expect you to follow, not just a filing.
Read →From registration to annual certification — a plain-language walkthrough of what NYC actually requires of a registered cooling tower over the course of a year, with the full cycle mapped out.
Read →The Stormwater Manual gives two different answers for how to calculate a site's pre-development impervious area — and the difference can change whether a project needs a SWPPP at all.
Read →A new home for field notes on SWPPP, dewatering, remediation, soil management, and cooling tower compliance.
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