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Post-construction stormwater compliance for Texas commercial properties.

An annual program that keeps your basins, vaults, and conveyance systems documented, inspected, and in regulatory good standing.

Timeline
Ongoing
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Why this matters

Most stormwater violations happen years after the ribbon is cut.

Most stormwater violations don't start during construction. They start two, five, ten years later, when no one in the building remembers who is responsible for the basin behind Building C, and a city inspector knocks anyway.

Ongoing program management for stormwater BMPs after substantial completion. We run the inspection calendar, file the county and city paperwork, and coordinate repairs before the next inspection cycle exposes them. Billed as a flat annual fee, not by the hour.

Post-construction stormwater is the long-tail compliance work that begins at substantial completion and continues for the operational life of the property. Every detention basin, retention pond, water-quality vault, filter strip, and conveyance line on your site carries an Operations and Maintenance obligation written into the original development approval. Those obligations don't expire when the contractor leaves and a property changes hands. They sit on the asset, quietly accruing inspection cycles, sediment, and vegetation work. Most San Antonio properties we audit are out of compliance on at least one of them before we walk the first basin.

We take over the program. The Bexar County quarterly maintenance reports and annual permit renewal, the City of San Antonio filings, the inspection schedule for every BMP on the site, mowing and vegetation management on basin side-slopes, sediment removal timing, trash-rack clearing, and repair coordination when something breaks between visits. Ownership receives one quarterly report: a plain-language summary of what was inspected, what was repaired, what's coming next quarter, and the line items the budget is tracking against. Property managers get a calendar they can actually plan around. Asset managers get a compliance file that reads cleanly during due diligence, lender questionnaires, and the eventual sale or refinance of the property.

The work itself is unglamorous and structural to long-term asset health. A detention basin that has lost 20% of its design volume costs nothing to anyone, on paper, until the storm event that overtops the embankment costs roughly the price of every car in the surface lot below it. A vault that has been bypassing untreated runoff for two years costs nothing, until the City pulls service records during an MS4 audit. Post-construction compliance is the boring, scheduled work that keeps both of those bills from ever being written.

Our process

Twelve months of post-construction stormwater work, scheduled.

  1. Step 01

    Audit

    Inventory every BMP on the property; pull the original O&M obligations and flag what's missing or overdue.

  2. Step 02

    Plan

    Build a 12-month calendar with inspection dates, maintenance windows, and a flat annual budget. One number, no hourly billing.

  3. Step 03

    Execute

    Quarterly site visits: inspections, vegetation and sediment work, repair coordination, city filings as they come due.

  4. Step 04

    Report

    Quarterly summary to ownership; annual compliance package for whichever MS4 the property answers to.

What you receive

Inside a post-construction stormwater program.

  • Annual inspection calendar for every BMP on site
  • Site-specific O&M manual and turnover documentation
  • Bexar County quarterly reports, annual permit renewal, and City of San Antonio filings, on schedule
  • Vegetation, sediment, and trash management on a quarterly cycle
  • Quarterly written report to ownership: what was done, what's next, budget tracking
Stormwater Compliant post-construction work in the field
Common questions

Post-construction stormwater questions from Texas owners.

After substantial completion, the property owner inherits long-term stormwater compliance responsibility for every on-site BMP: basins, filters, conveyance, outfalls. HOAs, property managers, and commercial owners are commonly the named responsible party in the original development approval. We take on that work under written service agreements so the responsibility is operationally covered.

Yes. The BMPs and the maintenance obligation run with the land, not with the previous owner's service contract. We pull the original development approval and the as-builts, walk what's actually out there, and tell you what you bought. It's rarely identical to the drawings.

The obligation doesn't pause, it accumulates. When the city pulls your file after a complaint or a downstream flooding event, a gap in the inspection log is the first thing they find, and it turns a maintenance conversation into an enforcement one. TCEQ penalties run as high as $32,500 a day.

Yes. San Antonio, Bexar County, New Braunfels, Boerne, and Seguin each want a different form on a different schedule. We file what your MS4 asks for and keep a copy in your portal, so the record is in two places instead of one filing cabinet.

A post-construction permit for the treatment BMPs, quarterly maintenance reports emailed in, and an annual renewal that goes in with the final quarterly report. Miss the reports for a year and you get a violation letter, and getting back into good standing then needs an engineer certification, which costs considerably more than the reports would have. The county also wants the maintenance done by someone carrying the SARA certification. We hold it.

The fee covers the inspections, the quarterly and annual filings, vegetation and sediment work on the normal cycle, trash-rack clearing, and the reporting to ownership. Structural repair is quoted separately, because a headwall that cracks in year three is a capital item, not a maintenance line, and pretending otherwise just means the fee has padding in it for a repair that may never happen. You get the repair quote before anyone starts.
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