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Inspections

Over the past 25 years, the SMC team has established a significant  post-construction stormwater inspection practice. Our inspection teams are responsible for the ongoing inspection of tens of thousands of facilities throughout the Mid-Atlantic.

What We Inspect

Detention (dry) ponds

Retention (wet) ponds

Underground stormwater structures

Bioretention and rain gardens

Low impact development practices

Environmental site design practices

Lakes

High hazard dams

Stormdrain systems

Inlets, catch basins, manholes, culverts

Streams & wetlands

NPDES erosion & sediment control practices

Why Inspect

  •  Inspections are the only way to verify maintenance is being appropriately implemented to ensure compliance with municipal and MS4 requirements.

  •  Our CCTV professionals and specialized equipment inspect pipe systems to map systems and find maintenance or failure issues.

  •  All of our inspectors are confined space certified and have OSHA compliance equipment. We go underground every day.

  •  Our professionals inspect thousands of stormwater facilities every year.

Why SMC

Over the past 25 years, the SMC team has established a significant  post-construction stormwater inspection practice. Our inspection teams are responsible for the ongoing inspection of tens of thousands of facilities throughout the Mid-Atlantic.  SMC has probably performed more inspections of existing stormwater assets than any other firm.  

We work for the leading MS4 jurisdictions in a wide variety of inspection roles to facilitate their ongoing compliance and to address the challenges of MS4 restoration requirements.  The leading commercial property owners and managers look to us to inspect and advise them on forward-thinking infrastructure management.  

Using professional judgement to avoid the “too much information” pattern, SMC has developed extremely efficient inspection methodologies that are individualized for specific clients.  Our work focuses on delivering information that is clear, concise, and understandable for the end-user.  We know that in many cases, less is definitely more.

Firm believers in an open-source approach, we have been honored to train others and continue to lead trends in inspection techniques with a singular goal of increasing the value of the results for our clients.  To this end, we utilize 100% digital field data and have developed smart phone apps that maximize efficiency and have been used by hundreds of other practitioners.

Stormwater Inspections

Our Services

Stormwater Facilities

Regulatory Support
MS4 and State compliance with Triennial inspections

Property Management

Reduce maintenance costs with proactive conditional assessment

 

Proactive Maintenance

Maintenance recommendations, planning, and budget support

Due diligence

Property transaction inspections

Confined space entry

Fully equipped OSHA compliant inspection

Specialized Inspections

CCTV

Inspection of underground storm drains 

High hazard dams Engineer-in-Charge services for high hazard dams

Conditional assessments

Condition by Professional Engineers and remedial recommendations

Drainage issue inspections

Inspection, analysis, and remediation design of flooding problems

Stream Inspection 

Determine stability and geomorphic analysis

MS4 Services

Water Quality Retrofits

Field identification of restoration and retrofit sites

Restoration Analysis

Feasibility assessment of restoration opportunities

MS4 & TMDL stream monitoring

Monitoring, surveying, and sampling for stream restoration projects

Illicit Discharge Detection & Elimination

Identification, reporting, investigation, and source location of non-stormwater discharges

Main Office

913 Ridgebrook Road, Suite 302

Sparks, MD 21152

Contact us

Stormwater Maintenance, LLC (SMC) is an industry leader providing engineering, inspections, land surveying, construction, and maintenance of stormwater infrastructure and stream restoration throughout the Mid-Atlantic.

SMC ensures nondiscrimination in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you need more information or special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact our office at (410) 785-0875.

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