Good-Housekeeping

Good Housekeeping practices have been established within the City of Temple to maintain compliance with our MS4 Stormwater Permit.  These practices include:

• Annual training for City employees
• Education and certification of municipal employees to reduce water quality impacts from fertilizers and pesticides
• Collecting and recycling used motor oil from the fleet maintenance activities
• Street sweeping and street cleaning
• Regular maintenance and cleaning of the stormwater inlets and drainage system helps to reduce the amount of debris, trash and other pollutants in the storm drain system
• Dechlorination equipment is required to remove excess chlorine from wash water that is used to treat new water lines
• Maps and inventory of all of all City-owned facilities and their storm water controls.