Click here to participate in a survey of erosion and sedimentation control plan submittals.

Erosion and Sedimentation Mission: To allow development within our State while preventing pollution by sedimentation.

Sedimentation Control Commission

The Sedimentation Control Commission (SCC) was created to administer the Sedimentation Control Program pursuant to the N.C. Sedimentation Pollution Control Act of 1973 (SPCA). It is charged with adopting rules, setting standards, and providing guidance for implementation of the Act. The composition of the Commission is set by statute to encompass a broad range of perspectives and expertise in areas related to construction, industry, government, and natural resource conservation and quality. All members are appointed by the Governor and serve three-year terms, except for the Director of the Water Resources Research Institute of The University of North Carolina, who serves as long as he remains Director. The chairman of the SCC is named by the Governor.

• Membership - Click for Membership list as of 20081126 (PDF)
• Committees
  • Technical Advisory Committee
    • Click for Membership list (MS Word, PDF)
  • Education Committee
    • Click for Membership list (MS Word, PDF)
• Public Notices for Meetings
  • 2009 meeting schedule (PDF) - revised

Laws and Rules

Sedimentation Pollution Control Act of 1973 with 2007 amendments (PDF only)

• Definitions
• Forest practice guidelines
• Powers of Commission
• Approval Fees
• Penalties

Title 15A Chapter 4: Sedimentation Control, Sedimentation Control 

Local Programs - click here for Local Program information

• Starting a local program
• Contract evaluation guidelines
• Sample spreadsheet
• Local ordinance fee list
• Official local official ordinance - 2006 (MS Word, PDF)
• Local Program scholarship application
• Procedure for local delegation
• Local program delegation procedure (MS Word, PDF)
• Starting a local program (MS Word, PDF)

Technical assistance

• Workshops
• Manuals and publications
• Downloads and links

Application forms - Click here for these materials; download either as MS Word or as PDF

• Fees
• Financial responsibility / ownership - 1 August 2007 (MS Word, PDF)
• Plan check list for designers - 19 February 2009 (MS Word, PDF)
• Plan review flowchart (PDF only)
• Notice
  • Notice of Plan Review Fee - 1 August 2007 (MS Word, PDF)
  • Ground cover (MS Word, PDF)
• DENR express permitting option
• Express review - general process - 30 April 2007 (MS Word)
• Express review - guidance document - 13 May 2008 (MS Word)
• Express review - financial responsiblity form - 1 August 2007 (MS Word, PDF )

Educational information - FREE for download either as MS Word or as PDF

• Teachers education packets
• Training packets for developers, consultants and local governments
• Single family construction
• Construction site erosion control
• Soil erosion facts