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Water
Water Conservation
Conduct a water use audit to identify conservation opportunities.
- Water Audit Guidelines from Maryland Department of the Environment
- Water Efficiency Manual for Commercial, Industrial and Institutional Facilities from the State of North Carolina
Action: Provide results from your facility’s water audit. Describe actions you will implement to reduce water.
Install water efficient equipment, appliances, and plumbing fixtures.
- Visit WaterSense for information on low-flow plumbing fixtures, aerators, on-demand faucets, dual flush toilets, waterless urinals and other water efficient plumbing fixtures.
Action: Describe actions and include results (e.g. gallons of water conserved) and cost savings where available.
Optimize water use for heating and cooling systems
- Eliminate single pass or once-through cooling systems.
- Minimize water loss from cooling towers.
- Ensure that boilers and steam-generating systems operate efficiently.
Action: Describe actions and include results (e.g. gallons of water conserved) and cost savings where available.
Eliminate non-critical cleaning processes and maximize dry cleanup where feasible.
- Optimize production sequencing and scheduling to reduce cleaning.
- Where feasible, use dry cleanup processes (sweeping, squeegees, etc.) rather than hosing down floors and other surfaces. Use high-pressure, low-volume water nozzles when you do need to use water for cleanup.
- Wash fleet vehicles only when necessary and use a car wash facility that recycles water.
Action: Describe actions and include results (e.g. gallons of water conserved) and cost savings where available.
Use harvested rain water for non-potable water use (e.g. flushing toilets) or landscape irrigation.
Action: Describe actions and include results (e.g. gallons of water conserved) and cost savings where available.
Stormwater Management & Site Design
Landscape with native and drought-resistant plants and minimize turf.
Landscape with native and drought-resistant plants and minimize turf.
- Use plants native to New Jersey
- Going Native: A Guide to Landscaping with Native Plants in the Barnegat Bay Watershed
Action: Describe actions and include results (e.g. gallons of water conserved) and cost savings where available.
Optimize irrigation systems
- Limit irrigation areas.
- Identify and repair leaks.
- Adjust irrigation schedules to account for seasonal rain variation or use rain gauges.
Action: Describe actions and include results (e.g. gallons of water conserved) and cost savings where available.
Stormwater Management & Site Design
Reduce stormwater runoff through landscape design, reduction of impervious surfaces, and green infrastructure.
- Green infrastructure to manage stormwater (including rain gardens, rain barrels, green roofs, permeable pavement, and harvesting rainwater)
- EPA Green Infrastructure Page
Action: Describe projects implemented to reduce stormwater runoff.
Keep pollutants out of storm drains and waterways.
- Store equipment and materials indoors or undercover.
- Routinely check paved surfaces for possible oil leaks from company vehicles.
- Educate employees to ensure “Only rain down the drain!”
- Plug floor drains in maintenance shops so that spills don’t discharge to stormwater drains or check with your local government about redirecting drains to the sanitary sewer system.
- Keep spill containment kits on site and accessible. Include them in your fleet vehicles if appropriate.
Action: Describe projects implemented to keep pollutants out of storm drains and waterways.
Implement Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices.
- IPM uses preventive strategies and natural predators as an alternative to pesticides and herbicides
- IPM Information - This bulletin provides a basic definition and description of IPM.
- For additional information and assistance contact Tim Boyle, Environmental Specialist 2 and IPM Coordinator at the NJ Department of Environmental Protection at (609) 984-6908.
Action: Describe Integrated Pest Management practices that were implemented.
Apply fertilizer only when necessary and at minimum rates.
- Use native plants.
- Limit fertilization of grass to once a year (summer for Bermuda and zoysia grasses, fall for all other grass types.)
- Keep fertilizer off of paved surfaces to prevent it from entering a storm drain.
Action: Describe actions taken to minimize or eliminate the use of fertilizer.
Use best management practices to control ice on paved surfaces.
Action: Describe actions taken to reduce the use of salt on paved surfaces to control ice.
