Protecting Water Quality
A Construction Site Water Quality Field Guide

This field guide is currently being updated. The proposed final draft date is August 2009.
If you would like to provide comments or suggestions, please contact Ruth Wallace at 573-522-1131.

The purpose of this manual is to provide developers, contractors, planners and local government officials with information and descriptions of erosion, sediment and storm water control practices. Use of these practices will reduce the amount of sediment and other pollutants leaving construction sites and entering our water resources. Their use can also reduce storm water runoff and its potential to carry pollutants, and cause flooding and stream channel instability.