FACILITY MANAGEMENT

Maintain suitable loading dock and dumpster areas to prevent the potential for spills and leaks. Maintain landscaped areas, including picking up trash, to reduce the amount of stormwater runoff entering the Rouge River. Install rain gardens on your property, they are attractive and their deep roots slow runoff and provide filtration before stormwater enters the Rouge River.

POLLUTION PREVENTION

Keep paved surfaces clean by routinely sweeping parking lots to pick up trash and debris to reduce pollution reaching the river. Immediately clean up any spills and leaks from vehicles, dumpsters or equipment. Properly clean equipment to reduce runoff of pollutants. Dump all washwater from buckets and floor washing machines in an indoor drain not a storm drain in your parking lot. In winter months when applying salt to sidewalks and parking lots don't over-salt. This can cause piles of salt in the middle of the road, parking lots or walkways. When unchecked, this can contribute substantially to increased chloride entering our waterways through storm drains.

Install rain gardens on your business property which
are attractive and slow runoff before it enters the Rouge River.

Don't allow material or trash to go down
storm drains which leads to our lakes and rivers.