An inspector in an olive jacket and high-visibility vest kneels at an open catch basin in an office car park, shining a flashlight inside, beside a planted bioswale.

Stormwater BMP inspections

Every structure on the map, inspected by its own protocol.

Manteverde is built for the firms that inspect and maintain their clients’ stormwater structures: the bioswales and rain gardens, catch basins and vaults, separators, ponds and outfalls on each property. Each one is pinned on the site map, inspected by the protocol for its type, and reported once a year in a report your inspector signs.

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The site map

Pin every structure where the crew will find it.

Each client property carries its own site map. Roof zones and stormwater structures are pinned where they sit, each with its type, its ID and the notes your crew needs to reach it. Open a pin and the structure’s whole record is there: every inspection, finding, reading and photo, year after year.

Northgate Commons · Alderbank Properties4 roof zones · 13 stormwater structures

  • Green roof · 4 zones
  • Bioswale
  • Rain garden
  • Permeable paving
  • Catch basins · 6
  • Detention vault
  • Oil-water separator
  • Wet pond
  • Outfall
Opening UV-01

Detention vaultUV-01

South car park vault
Routine
Location
Under bays 12–14, south car park
Access
Key from the site office
Safety
Confined space: inspect from the opening; entry only under your firm’s procedure
Traffic
Cone off bays 12–14 first
Last inspected
Tue 14 Oct · Dana Ortiz
Photos
6 on record, by visit
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Pins sit on a plan you upload or draw for each property. Live sensors, drone or CCTV imagery and satellite layers are not part of the launch.

Protocols by type

Each kind of structure has its own checklist.

A catch basin is not a pond, and a vault is not a rain garden. You set the inspection protocol for each structure type once (the items to check, the readings to take, the photos you expect) and every inspection of that type follows it, so this year’s record lines up with last year’s.

A wet stormwater pond on an office campus at dawn, with a rock-lined inlet pipe, a concrete outlet riser in the water, cattails along the bank and an inspector on the mown embankment.
  • 01

    Catch basins and inlets

    • Grate and frame
    • Sediment in the sump
    • Debris and trash
    • Outlet pipe
    • Standing water
    • Hood or trap
  • 02

    Underground vaults

    • Access opening and lid
    • Sediment depth
    • Standing water
    • Inlet and outlet pipes
    • Orifice and weir
    • Structure, seen from the opening
  • 03

    Oil-water separators

    • Oil and sediment layers
    • Baffles
    • Inlet and outlet
    • Last pump-out on record
  • 04

    Bioswales, rain gardens, bioretention

    • Inlets and curb cuts
    • Ponding after rain
    • Vegetation cover
    • Sediment
    • Erosion
    • Overflow
  • 05

    Permeable paving

    • Surface clogging
    • Sediment on the surface
    • Ponding
    • Edge restraints
    • Last vacuum sweep
  • 06

    Wet and dry ponds

    • Embankment and slopes
    • Inlet and forebay sediment
    • Outlet riser and trash rack
    • Emergency spillway
    • Standing water
    • Woody growth
  • 07

    Outfalls

    • Headwall and pipe
    • Riprap apron
    • Erosion and scour
    • Flow and staining
    • Debris
  • 08

    Green roof zones

    Vegetation against the specification, drainage outlets, substrate and the membrane edges, zone by zone.

    Living roof records

Pond water quality (aeration, fountains, algae treatment, water testing) is not part of these protocols: Manteverde inspects a pond as a stormwater structure.

The annual inspection

Structure by structure, in the order the crew walks the site.

On the day, the inspection opens with the property’s access and safety notes, then works through each structure by its protocol. Findings are tied to the structure, with photos and a severity, while your inspector is still standing at it.

  1. 01
    Arrive with the notesKeys from the site office, bays 12–14 coned off, the vault inspected from its opening. The notes your procedure needs come up before the first structure.
  2. 02
    Catch basins, one by oneCB-01 to CB-06, grate, sump and outlet. CB-04’s sediment reading reaches the line you set: attention needed, with a photo.
  3. 03
    The vault, from the openingUV-01: standing water and the structure observed from the surface. No entry, so none is recorded. Routine.
  4. 04
    The pond and its forebayWP-01: embankment, outlet riser, trash rack and spillway. Sediment building up in the forebay: attention needed.
  5. 05
    Down to the outfallOF-01: riprap displaced and the bank eroded beside the apron. A deficiency, photographed where it was found.
Annual stormwater inspectionNorthgate Commons
Tue 14 Oct · Dana Ortiz

Access and safety notes

  • Key: site office
  • Cone off bays 12–14
  • UV-01: inspect from the opening
  1. CB-01 to CB-06Catch basins

    Attention neededCB-04 · sediment at your line

  2. UV-01Detention vault

    RoutineUV-01 · from the opening

  3. WP-01Wet pond

    Attention neededFB-1 · forebay sediment

  4. OF-01Outfall

    DeficiencyOF-01 · apron eroded

0 / 13 structures inspected

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Readings

Readings drawn against the line you set.

Sediment in a sump, standing water in a vault, depth at a pond’s forebay: each reading stays with its structure and is drawn against the target your firm sets for that client. When a reading reaches your line, the structure is flagged for the crew instead of waiting for next year’s visit.

Manteverde doesn’t set cleanout triggers or pass marks. The lines are yours, from the structure’s design, your client’s agreement or local guidance, and the readings shown here are sample data.

CB-04 · catch basinSediment in the sump
RoutineAttention needed · cleanout bookedClosed · reading after cleanout
  1. 12 Mar3 in
  2. 10 Jun5 in
  3. 9 Sep7 in
  4. 14 Oct9 in
  5. 16 Oct0 inCleaned out
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Deficiencies

A deficiency, from the photo that found it to the one that closed it.

Every finding keeps its structure, its severity, the photo, the work that answered it and the photo after. On the next inspection, the history is there before anyone opens the pipe.

A concrete outfall headwall in a wooded creek, with riprap stones washed out of place and the bank beside the apron eroded.Before
The same outfall after repair, with the riprap reset across the apron and the bank regraded and covered with erosion-control matting.After
OF-01 · outfall to Alder CreekRiprap displaced, bank eroded beside the apron
DeficiencyClosed
  1. Found on the annual inspectionTue 14 Oct
  2. Repair booked for the crewWed 15 Oct
  3. Riprap reset, bank regraded and mattedMon 20 Oct
  4. Closed, with the photo afterMon 20 Oct
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Access and safety notes

The notes your procedure needs, where the crew will see them.

Each structure carries the notes for reaching it: who holds the key, which bays to cone off, what time the car park empties, and whether it is inspected from the surface. They come up on the visit, before the work.

  • Confined spaces: inspect from the opening; any entry follows your firm’s own procedure, people and equipment
  • Traffic: the bays to cone off and the quiet hours to work in
  • Keys, gates and codes: who holds them and when the site opens
  • Open water: ponds and outfalls with two people present, if that is your rule

Manteverde records the notes your procedure asks for. It never certifies that an entry, a structure or a site is safe.

Two workers in hard hats at an open steel hatch of an underground vault in a car park, coned off, one holding a gas detector over the opening and the other lowering a measuring pole.

The annual report

A Stormwater Inspection Report for each structure, signed by your inspector.

Once a year, each structure gets its own report: what was inspected and by which protocol, the readings, the findings and what was done about them, the photos, and a statement signed by your inspector with their credential. Your client keeps it and makes any submission their agreement or permit asks for.

Your client receives it when you decide: because they asked, because you choose to send it, or on a timetable you set, in your company’s name, as a PDF by email or a link. It is never sent automatically.

Manteverde never files anything with a city or agency, and the report never says a structure is compliant or certified. It records what your inspector observed and did.

Each finished job also keeps a Work Record, sent when your client asks. See the Work Record

Roofs get their own report, zone by zone. See the Living Roof Report

Stormwater Inspection ReportWP-01 · North wet pondNorthgate Commons · annual inspection, Tue 14 Oct
  1. Structure and location
  2. Items inspected, by protocol
  3. Readings
  4. Findings and actions
  5. Photos
  6. Inspector’s statement and signature

“I inspected this structure on the date shown and recorded what I observed.”

Dana Ortiz · inspector credential on file · signed 14 Oct

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  • On request
  • At will
  • On a schedule you set
Send to clientSent

From: Your companyTo: Priya Raman, Alderbank Properties

Northgate Commons: this year’s stormwater inspection reports

The annual inspection reports for the 13 structures at Northgate Commons are attached, each signed by our inspector, for your records and any submission your agreement asks for.

Stormwater Inspection Reports (13) · PDF

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Inspections record what is observed on the day. Manteverde does not warranty or certify membrane integrity, structural condition or safe entry, and never files anything with a city or agency: reports are formatted for your client’s own submission.

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