Webinars for all ESC & SWM Certifications
Certificates of completion are not provided after watching these webinars. DEQ does not require a certificate for you to claim these contact hours for your SWM/ESC certifications as we audit the length of time watched.
If you are watching these webinars for non-DEQ certifications, please note that no certificate of attendance is provided. Check with your certifying body if you can use them for your renewal.
30 Minutes to Prepare for your Pearson Exam
This webinar (0.5 contact hour) will provide skills and tips to help prepare for the Pearson ESC/SWM certification exams. Information includes exam material and personal preparation, using the Pearson Candidate Information Book, Pearson testing center check in and exam procedures, exam taking skills, and preparing to retest if things don't go according to plan
Armoring Inspection Reports
This webinar (1 contact hour) discusses methods to document inspection observations and common issues and errors on inspection reports.
Construction General Permit Updates (2024) - password = Webinar1
This webinar (1.5 contact hours) provides an overview of the updates to the 2024 Construction General Permit. The webinar discusses updates to permit definitions, turbidity monitoring requirements, and frequently asked questions DEQ has received since the effective permit date.
Dealing with Difficult Site Dilemmas
This webinar (1.5 contact hours) presents techniques to enhance communication skills with onsite personnel, neighboring residents, and other parties affected by a project. This webinar addresses hostile situations or attempts to inappropriately influence erosion and sediment control or stormwater staff work. Participants will learn skills to more effectively address site issues related to compliance or complaints. Participants will also be challenged to understand sites from a more diverse perspective.
Deep Dive into Post-Construction BMP (P-BMP) Inspections
This webinar (2.5 contact hours) discusses the life cycle of P-BMPs (from construction to post-construction), common maintenance issues, identification of functional components, and communication with the responsible party.
Erodibility, Sedimentation and Sediment Basin Design
This webinar (1 contact hour) discusses how soils erode and how sediment is transported and deposited in the context of sediment basin design, plan review and inspection.
Five Easy Rules for Erosion and Sediment Control
This webinar (2.5 contact hours) targets the construction industry but is suited for everyone who is certified in erosion and sediment control (ESC) and stormwater management (SWM). The webinar will provide general information about meeting and exceeding the erosion and sediment control program and construction general permit requirements. Subjects include: not doing the bare minimum; using common sense during development and protecting soils; some of the theory behind ESC and SWM; the construction sequence; grading plans; maintenance of ESC facilities; and not relying on one or two measures to protect the entire site.
Forest Open Space: Part 1 - Soil Restoration
This webinar (1 contact hour) is relevant for all SWM/ESC certification renewals. This webinar discusses common issues found in the soils of forest open space and ways of restoring the soil.
Forest Open Space: Part 2 - Vegetation Restoration
This webinar (1 contact hour) is relevant for all SWM/ESC certification renewals. The webinar discusses the restoration or improvement of existing forest open space areas and the creation or revegetation of new areas.
Is Soil Compaction Really That Bad
This webinar (1 contact hour) is relevant for all SWM/ESC certification renewals. The webinar concentrates on the proper compaction of embankments and around culverts. Soils mechanics, compaction, compaction equipment, etc. are discussed.
Phosphorus
This webinar (2 contact hours) is relevant for all SWM/ESC certification renewals. The discussion will take you from Phosphorus, the basic element and how it functions in biology, to some of the more contemporary ways of controlling it in stormwater discharge.
Plants for Bioretention
This webinar (1 contact hour) is relevant for all SWM/ESC certification renewals. The webinar discusses the interaction between plants and the bioretention mix (soil), reasons for plant selection, native plants, plants that accumulate contaminants, and installation and maintenance issues related to bioretention.
Seeding Demystified
This webinar (2 contact hours) supplements the Plants for ESC and SWM class on seeding and vegetation establishment. This webinar is intended for inspectors, plan reviewers and all individuals interested in establishing a permanent vegetative cover on their site that eventually will inhibit erosion and meet permit closure requirements. During the webinar, we will discuss a variety of subjects including: species selection; potential seed sources; optimal time of seeding; seeding methods; seeding rates and aftercare.
VA Stormwater Management Handbook - an Overview
This webinar (4 contact hours) covers how to: navigate and locate content in the new Handbook on-line interface; use the new BMP terminology and categories to communicate with other stormwater and/or design professionals; identify the new construction and post-construction BMPs and be able to efficiently locate technical requirements for these new BMPs; locate updated technical requirements for existing BMPs; and employ the regulatory compliance roadmap and stormwater site design process.
VA Stormwater Management Handbook - for Inspectors (part 1)
VA Stormwater Management Handbook - for Inspectors (part 2)
This webinar is split into two parts (3 hours each - total 6 contact hours) and covers how to: navigate and locate content in the new Handbook on-line interface; identify and apply the updated guidance in the new Handbook to the BMP and site inspection process; understand and apply the updated BMP terminology, categories, numbering and nomenclature sequence to inspection documentation and correspondence; leverage an understanding of the construction and post-construction BMPs and their function during the inspection process; and apply the proper inspection and maintenance procedures for construction and post-construction BMPs and implement corrective action procedures when required.
Vermin Control in Stormwater BMPs
This webinar (1.5 contact hours) is relevant for all SWM/ESC certification renewals. This webinar discusses the life cycle of pests that can sometimes infest stormwater BMPs and what can be done about them.
Why do we have Minimum Standards in Erosion and Sediment Control
This webinar (0.5 contact hour) is relevant for all SWM/ESC certification renewals. The Minimum Standards are the number one item an Erosion and Sediment Control inspector will use to inspect a project for potential violations. We will discuss what they are, why we need them, how they apply to a construction project and hopefully how to avoid violating them.
Webinars only for Plan Reviewers & Combined Administrators
Limits of Analysis
This 1.5-hour webinar (1.5 contact hours) is relevant for SWM and ESC plan reviewers and combined administrators. In the webinar, participants will review the water quantity requirements of 9VAC25-875-600 and how to apply these requirements in establishing the Limits of Analysis for both channel and flood protection on development sites. After this course participants should understand how to establish, or review, the downstream conveyance system of development sites to the Limits of Analysis based on contributing drainage area, peak flow rate, or a mapped floodplain and how to differentiate these between both channel and flood protection criteria.
Limits of Analysis Part II
This 1.5-hour webinar (1.5 contact hours) is relevant for SWM and ESC plan reviewers and combined administrators. Instructors will discuss the regulatory requirements associated with Limits of Analysis, geared toward the plan review and design community. There will be a brief review of the discussion in Part I, walkthrough examples of channel and flood compliance review, and evaluation of some common scenarios for plan reviewers to consider when approaching compliance checks for Limits of Analysis.
VA Stormwater Management Handbook - for Plan Reviewers/Designers (part 1)
VA Stormwater Management Handbook - for Plan Reviewers/Designers (part 2)
This webinar is split into two parts (3 hours each - total 6 contact hours) and covers how to: identify and apply the updated guidance within the Handbook to the plan review and design process; apply the updated BMP numbering and nomenclature sequence to design and plan review documentation and correspondence; identify new and updated BMPs and their functionality; apply recommended site design procedures and select appropriate BMPs based on site condition, location, and type of development; and apply a common sense approach to site plan preparation and plan review.
Virginia Runoff Reduction Method Spreadsheet Webinars
VRRM (version 4.1)
Two contact hours per webinar.
VRRM 4.1 Basics
VRRM 4.1 Advanced
