Stormwater carries pollutants into local streams, lakes, groundwater, and Puget Sound. The City of Lacey’s Water Resources Team partners with businesses to protect and improve water quality.
The City’s source control program helps identify and prevent pollutants your business generates from reaching stormwater. Stormwater source control is an effective approach to finding potential pollution sources to prevent them from traveling with rainwater down a stormdrain.
Grease, garbage, detergents, sediment, and paint are some of the pollutants the community generates. Our team can identify what pollutants your business generates and the appropriate best management practices (BMPs) to prevent, contain, or reduce these sources.
Public and private commercial and industrial facilities in Lacey are subject to source control inspections, per the City’s municipal stormwater permit (NPDES Phase II Municipal Stormwater Permit). In addition to keeping in compliance with this permit, it is in all of our best interest to protect our valued water resources.
Illicit discharges are unpermitted discharges to storm drains or surface water. These can include pool water, cleaning solutions, pressure washing runoff, and more.
Identify if your place of business has any potential sources of illicit discharges and eliminate them.
The pollution prevention team should be familiar with your facilities and understand how to assess activities that could impact stormwater at your site. Team members will implement and maintain BMPs for your site.
Reduce the potential for stormwater to become polluted through these actions:
Train all staff that work in pollutant source areas about how to identify pollutants, control measures, spill prevention and cleanup, and best practices for handling pollutant source materials.
Ensure that responsible, trained staff conduct monthly inspections. Document these inspections, which should reflect the conditions of pollutant sources, their containment and any suggested follow-up actions.
Maintain records of pollutant control and any associated training, purchases, materials used, or maintenance performed.
Report spills or determine if a spill needs to be reported, call (360) 491-5644.
Learn more about this program and view business-specific source control BMPs:
Source Control Guidance Manual
Learn the inspector’s point of view with this free online class:
Source Control Inspection Online Training (thinkific.com)
View more free online trainings related to stormwater pollution prevention:
All Courses – Washington Stormwater Training (thinkific.com)