guidance
Compliance Handbooks
Fact sheets created or updated after February 1, 2022:
SQG Guidebook and Self-Evaluation Checklist (NEW)
VSQG Guidebook (NEW)
Rules, Guidance Documents, & Procedures
The Sites Management Section maintains a variety of guidance documents intended to assist property owners, prospective purchasers, environmental consultants, and other interested parties in the remediation of contaminated properties. Updated versions of these documents will be provided here as they become available.
Archived Guidance Documents and Procedures
Wastewater System and Potable Water Supply Guidance Documents, Procedures, and Practices
Guidance Documents and Procedures
- Property Ownership and Control Disputes. Guidance Document #2008-02
- Composting Toilet Guidelines
- 2020 -2 Replacement Area Guidance Document
Replacement Supply Exemption
Permit Compliance
The Importance of Understanding your Regional Office Permit
Stack Height and Rain Guard Guidance
The Air Quality & Climate Division (AQCD) requires that emissions from most regulated air pollution sources exhaust through an unobstructed, vertical stack of sufficient height to ensure appropriate upward dispersion of the exhaust, thus minimizing the ground level concentration of air pollutants where individuals may be exposed.