Throughout the greater DuPage County area many "Tear-downs" construction sights to build more expensive homes and many commercial construction sights to build new strip malls result in a great deal of construction waste pollution during heavy rains and storms. This construction waste pollution can be easily seen from your car window as you drive passed these sights.
Learn about how you can monitor construction sights as you drive passed them every day on your way to work, school, and to the grocery store. Learn about what are the current regulations that these sights should be using to reduce this construction waste pollution. Become trained in how with your naked eye you can spot violations. Become part of the new Sierra Club Team of Storm Water Rangers and learn how to monitor and report these violations. As a Sierra Club Storm Water Ranger for DuPage County you would become part of a network of citizen activists that would learn from each other about what are the environmental regulations that construction sights should be following, what are examples of good and bad practices that construction sights can have in place to reduce construction pollution, and what as a citizen you can do when you see a violation. You would become part of growing Network of Sierra Club Volunteers that help to support each other on monitoring conditions in your neighborhoods and communities with the help of Sierra Club staff members who are knowledgeable in this area.
For more information about this program and/or how to join this
program, contact Frank Orto at forto@aol.com
or 630.519.4359.