Time for contractors to become BMP certified
University of Nevada Cooperative Extension will host best management practices workshops for contractors and landscape designers April 24 and April 29.
The full-day basic workshop will be from 8am-4:50pm April 24 at Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd. in Incline Village, and the half-day refresher course will be 8am-noon April 29 at the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, 128 Market St. in Stateline.
BMPs are land-management and landscaping practices that control erosion and encourage runoff from rooftops and pavement to infiltrate into the ground.
TRPA, Nevada Tahoe Conservation District, Resource Concepts Incorporated and North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District personnel will explain the basics of proper installation of the practices around homes and small businesses.
Topics include:
- How to use TRPA’s online resources
- TRPA’s electronic approval process for Small BMP Retrofit Design
- Commercial and multi-family residential BMP permits and maintenance.
Attendance by at least one supervisor per business is required to get on the Service Providers List.
Early registration fees for the workshops are $25 for the basic workshop and $18 for the refresher course. These rates go up after April 8 and again at the door. Registration includes refreshments, workshop materials, Cooperative Extension’s Home Landscaping Guide for Lake Tahoe and Vicinity and the 2012 Natural Resources Conservation Service’s booklet of Standard Drawings of Residential Scale BMPs.
Register online. For more information, call 775.336.0244.
Here’s a BMP for ya! Knock down every house in the Sleazy Keys and return the wetlands. Then I’ll worry about my 10′ driveway.
Tahoebluewire, I agree with you on your BMP Keys comment. I to have a small driveway and live a long way from the lake. Yet I’m contibuting to the loss of lake clarity? The Keys, golf courses on the meadows and lakefront developemont, don’t???
Bring back the Truckee Marsh! OLS
No BMPs for Edgewood, why do I need them? I’m a mile from the lake. Show me the science!
Right on OLS! The amount of nitrates they pour onto that grass at Hedgehood far outweighs the 20’X20′ deck we had to tear down when we bought our Meyers house. Yet someone right next door to my little 1600SF home built a 3500SF monstrosity the same year! Or how about the 60 mature red firs they cut down at El Dorado beach to PAVE additional boat/trailer parking spaces for a ramp that is totally dry now? I could go on and on. Screw the TRPA.