The Challenge When construction happens next to water, sediment control isn't optional. It's the thing standing between the project and a compliance shutdown. In 2017, BMP Supplies partnered with Ferguson Waterworks to manufacture and deliver a fully customized turbidity curtain for construction taking place at Disney World in Florida. Here's how it went. The Requirements Three hard constraints shaped the entire build: Green: no exceptions. Disney mandated a green curtain so the barrier...

Working Near Water? What Canada's Fisheries Act Requires for Sediment Control on In-Water and Shoreline Projects If your project touches a creek, river, lake, or shoreline, sediment control stops being a best practice and becomes a legal obligation. Under Canada's Fisheries Act, letting silt or sediment reach water frequented by fish isn't just an environmental miss, it's a federal offence, and “we did our best” only counts if you can prove it. Here's what contractors, project managers, and...

When you're pricing a civil or subdivision job, erosion and sediment control usually lands near the bottom of the estimate — a couple of line items, a rounded number, move on. That's exactly where the trouble starts. On paper, ESC looks like a small percentage of the job. In practice, it's one of the most common places a contractor wins the bid and loses money, because the costs that actually matter rarely show up in the unit-price comparison. Here's how ESC costs really break down, and how...