In this video, we explore why stormwater maintenance is about much more than just following the rules. It is truly about being a good steward of the environment. When land is developed, natural dirt that once absorbed 80% of rainfall is replaced by pavement. This shift means that instead of soaking into the earth, up to 90% of that water runs off, carrying brake dust, tire residue, oils, and trash directly into our precious waterways.
Maintaining these systems isn’t just an environmental choice; it’s a smart business move. Beyond staying in compliance with city and county agreements, preventative maintenance protects your property investment. No one wants that emergency phone call in the middle of the night reporting a flooded loading dock or an inaccessible building.
Watch the video to see how proper maintenance keeps our tenants operating smoothly and our beaches beautiful for the next generation. Let’s work together to ensure that the only thing heading down our channels is clean water.
Video Transcript
0:00 Intro
0:09 Why Maintain Your Storm Systems?
0:20 Compliance
0:44 Preventive Maintenance
0:00 Intro
So this is a picture I took in Huntington Beach. I take my girls out to the beach every chance I get. This wasn’t staged; this is exactly how it was.
0:09 Why Maintain Your Storm Systems?
So, why maintain your storm systems? Well, because we love our waterways in Southern California. You know, one of them is you want to be a good steward of the environment. You protect our waterways. We want the beaches to be nice and, you know, our lakes, rivers, and creeks to be flourishing.
0:20 Compliance
Compliance. We do have agreements with the cities and the counties that we do work with, that we build in and maintain in. So they want to see if you’re going to develop like this lot. This is a big eight-acre lot. It was just all dirt, and all that water infiltrated into the earth—80% of it. You had about 20% of it running off. Well, look how much pavement you’ve got down now. You have about 90% runoff and 10% infiltration into these small landscape areas, right?
0:44 Preventive Maintenance
So they would say, if you’re going to develop this, we want to make sure you give us clean stormwater because now you have all these paved surfaces. It’s going to send a lot of brake dust, tire residue, oils, trash, and dirt down the channels. You want to make sure that’s cleaned up. Preventative maintenance. You want to protect your investments and keep your tenants operating. You don’t want to get those phone calls in the middle of the night: “Hey, our loading docks flooded,” or “We can’t get into our building because of this, that, or the other.”
