My firm has built an Athletic Field house for a local school district. SWPPP and ESC plans were created and followed accordingly. Now here is where it gets complicated. The whole parcel of land (school building, parking lot and adjacent fields) prior to any demolition or construction was subdivided and all but 3.2 of the 8 acres was sold to the Town. Our LEED site is only our proposed building and a little bit of the surrounding grass areas on the 3.2 acres( this is documented in a separate drawing being uploaded for the credit). The Town has developed the rest of the parcel with athletic fields, a playground, parking (including parking on the school owned portion of the parcel)and a small maintenance building also housing small toilet rooms. The Town funded and built all of this including the parking lot for our LEED building since the parking lot served their portion of the parcel as well. The Town funded the design of the SWPP/ESC for the entire parcel of land including our LEED building. Therefore, all of the SWPPP/ESC plans are for the entire parcel of land not just our LEED site. Since there was an existing building on the Town's portion of the parcel there were several stages of SWPPP/ESC plans designed and implemented to suit which phase of demolition/construction was going on at that point in time. All calculations are also done for the parcel of land as a whole not just our LEED portion. My questions are as follows: 1. Can the SWPPP/ESC plans be submitted as they are with the whole parcel of land on them? Can it be as simple as just highlighting our LEED site area on their SWPPP/ESC plans but, leaving the whole document in tact otherwise? 2. If question #1 if the asnwer is yes they can be submitted as a whole parcel of land then for credit SS6.1 should we be entering water runoff calculations for just our LEED site (which contains no drainage wells etc. since the parking lot is not included in the site) or the site as a whole including the Towns portion? Note: The Town did not fund any kind of LEED certification for their portion of the site. Only the school district is trying to achieve LEED certification for their building.

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Michael DeVuono

Regional Stormwater Leader

Arcadis North America

LEEDuser Expert

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Thu, 06/06/2013 - 13:16

I would submit the E&S plan, as approved by your local Conservation District. For question #2, if your stormwater facilities for your project are located on a campus, but not necessarily on your site, submit the campus-wide calcs. This was in a CIR at some point, I believe Amy references this in a post on the 6.1 forum.

Lawrence Lile

Chief Engineer

Lile Engineering, LLC

LEEDuser Basic Member

59 thumbs up

Fri, 07/25/2014 - 12:32

I got a rejection from the LEED reviewer for a similar problem. Our SWPP plan covered an entire city block with three different construction projects. The LEED Reviewer rejected that plan, saying it did not cover the actual LEED project (although it did show all of the erosion controls required on the LEED project!) We are going back to the Civil Engineer and asking for a drawing that just shows the LEED boundary and all erosion control measures required within that boundary only. It won't require anything different than the drawing the LEED reviewer already saw. I would try to obtain an ESC or SWPP plan that just shows the area within your LEED boundary.

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