Hello, I have a question regarding silt and run off. Our project is located in Phuket Thailand. Our project is planning to have a series of retention ponds and bioswales to collect rain water runoff. The project is located on a beach on the Andaman Sea. We have a monsoon season for 6 months of the year. The storms though have occasionally hit with great intensity in the last few years. We are looking at a system design for a 10 year and 50 year storm. It is possible though the system may be overwhelmed by the rain and some silt may run into the sea. Does that disqualify us for this credit? How does the prerequisite address an occurrence such as this?

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Michael DeVuono

Regional Stormwater Leader

Arcadis North America

LEEDuser Expert

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Fri, 10/11/2013 - 12:48

The primary component of an erosion and sediment control plan is providing a means to prevent the discharge of pollution from construction activities. This pre-req applies to the construction phase of your project. Not the built environment. If there is a monsoon season, an appropriate E&S plan should take into account the expected stormwater runoff, and a means to capture this during the construction phase that allows the sediment to filter/settle out....you need a sediment basin or sediment trap in your design, then once your site is stabilized, they get converted to the permanant stormwater BMP.

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