Webinar: Construction Environmental Compliance

AECOM will provide an overview of Construction Environmental Compliance in VA. The session will review key updates to Virginia DEQ’s updated VAR10 permit. The seminar will include information on erosion principles, construction phasing, seedbed preparation, temporary and permanent stabilization, and measures to help close out a project CGP.  An Introduction to new turbidity monitoring requirements will be provided, in addition to 2025 status update on the endangered bat regulations.

About our Speakers:

Chris Monahan – AECOM Environmental Compliance Project Manager
Chris has over 24 years of experience working in the in the environmental field including environmental compliance, permitting and pollution response and prevention programs at industry plants and heavy civil construction sites. He has worked on highway, rail, tunneling, runway, bridge, and other infrastructure projects throughout in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Chris provides construction related environmental services for preconstruction including Phase I/II ESAs, scientific studies – wetland delineation JD, protected species, cultural resources, environment permitting, and stormwater design. He also provides during construction and post construction services including erosion and sediment control inspections, turbidity monitoring, BMP maintenance inspections, SPCC & ODCP Plans, TMDL Action Plans, Environmental awareness training, agency inspections, internal audits, violation and enforcement actions, and Hazmat and RCRA compliance. 

David Greenspan – AECOM Virginia Water Resources Market Sector Lead
David has over 15 years of erosion and sediment control (ESC) and stormwater management (SWM) construction site inspection experience and comes from a civil engineering background, having inspected hundreds of active project sites throughout his career.  His involvement spans four separate Construction General Permit (CGP) cycles where he has run an inspection program for local MS4s, assisting with SWPPP development and implementation, compliance documentation and recordkeeping, best management practices, regulatory inspections, enforcement, SOP development, and other various ESC/SWM related practices.  From the Civil side, David has assisted numerous projects with plan development, obtaining VADEQ approval, navigating project set up with municipalities, permitting to get to construction, and closeout procedures including as-built plans, permit termination, and NOT inspections.