Printed Maps and Records: $1.00 to $20.00

Petition to Close a Street: $900.00

Stormwater Permit Review Fee: $400.00

Check 401/404 permits:

  Grading in a floodplain: $5,000

    Call Army Corp of Engineers/DWQ

  Filling in a Wetland, Creek or water course: $5,000

• No approved plan/grading without a permit (includes single-family lots): $5,000

• Failure to renew permit: $500

• Failure to follow approved plan, or obtain signed plan prior to work: $3,000

• Failure to submit revised plan: $2,500

Graded slopes and fill too steep:$1,500

Unprotected slopes (see failure to provide ground cover in 7 days): $1,000

Lack of Maintenance: $2,000

Inadequate buffer zone (30 feet Roanoke, 50 feet for Tar-Pam):$3,000

Erosion Problems (failure to take all reasonable measures)

• Slight potential for erosion problem - $500/day

• Moderate potential for erosion problem - $1,000/day
  
  

  • Interior of basin not seeded

  • baffles not installed or maintained

  • skimmer not dewatering

  • silt fence blown over (slightly)

  • construction entrance failing

• Severe potential for erosion problem - $2,000/day
  
  

  • Silt fence blown out (top or bottom)

  • Sediment basin over half full

  • tree protection fence down

Sediment offsite

• Slight (each can be separate violations, examples only) - $500/day
  
  

  • Construction entrance violation, mud tracking

  • Average 10' x 10' area

  • Seeded area that did not take and eroded offsite

  • Up to one 5-gallon bucket full

• Moderate (each can be separate violations, examples only) - $1,000/day
  
  

  • Silt fence overtopped, concentrated water, not into inlet

  • Less than two 5-gallon buckets

  • Average area is 20' x 30'

  • Skimmer dewatering too fast, over 50 NTU

• Severe (each can be separate violations, examples only) - $4,000/day
  
  

  • Sediment in water course buffered stream (intermittent & ephemeral), wetland, pond, floodplain

  • Sediment onto private property (including ponds)

  • Sediment area larger than 20' x 30'

  • More than three 5-gallon buckets full

  • Sediment overtopping silt fence into unprotected inlet

Penalty for Violation of Stop Work Order - $4,000

Failure to provide adequate ground cover

• Slight - $500

  • 50'x50' area

  • Less than 3:1 slope

  • Little possibility for erosion

• Moderate - $1,000

  • 100'x100' area

  • 3:1-2:1 slope

  • Slight rilling

• Severe - $3,500

  • 200'x200' area

  • 2:1 slope or more

  • Large rills to gullies and washing

Insufficient measures to retain sediment onsite

Failure to take all reasonable measures (see also insufficient measures) - $500

Large storm (non-hurricane) - $500

At start of project prior to full installation - $500

In between phased grading - $750