Illinois · Construction stormwater · Independent review
Independent grades for Illinois construction-site stormwater compliance.
Monthly MS4 evidence for municipalities. Permit close-outs for contractors.
Grades are drawn from the public record — the Notice of Intent and SWPPP filed with IEPA, and the inspection records the permit makes available on request — and scored against a published rubric. A grade is not a regulatory determination.
Project
[Project name]
2 critical blanks flagged
| Group | Result |
|---|---|
| E · Stabilization | Not yet due |
| H · Maintenance and inspections | Critical · 1 blank |
| R · Records | Critical · 1 blank · Major · 1 finding |
| 6 more groups complete | |
Rubric v0 (draft) · Not an IEPA determinationOpen full card: sample grade card, grade C, 2 critical blanks flagged
A – F
One letter grade per open permit
9
Rubric groups, published in full
Monthly
Re-graded while the permit stays open
Cook
North Cook pilot now · Lake County next
How grading works
Public record in. Grade card out.
1
Pull the public record
IEPA's ILR10 Notice of Intent and the SWPPP filed with it, plus inspection and corrective-action records requested from the permittee under ILR10 Part IV.B.6.
2
Score it against the rubric
Nine groups, published in full. Critical blanks on required paperwork are flagged on their own line — never averaged away.
3
Publish the grade card
One card per project, searchable by county and municipality. Re-graded monthly for as long as the permit stays open.
Grade cards
Every open permit, graded in public.
Each card shows the letter grade, what drove it and the record behind it. Permittees can correct the record before the next monthly review.
Sample cards · layout only
ScaleAComplete recordBMinor findingsCCritical blanksDMajor gapsFRecord failing
Open the sample grade cardCoverage
Cook County first. Then Lake. Then the state.
Grading starts with a North Cook County pilot. Every open ILR10 construction permit in a covered county gets a grade card.
| Area | Status |
|---|---|
| Cook County | Grading now · North Cook pilot |
| Lake County | Next |
| Statewide | Planned |
Illinois · schematic
For MS4 municipalities
Monthly evidence for your ILR40 program.
Your annual MS4 report has to show that construction-site runoff controls in your jurisdiction were tracked. We grade every active ILR10 permit inside your boundaries each month and hand you the evidence, ready to attach.
See the sample monthly reportIn every monthly report
- Every active ILR10 permit within your boundaries
- A grade per project, with month-over-month changes
- Flagged blanks and lapsed inspection records
- Permits open past their stated end date
Sample: Village of [Pilot Municipality] · [Month YYYY]
For contractors and developers
A permit stuck at open is a liability with a clock on it.
Past the stated end date with no Notice of Termination filed? We assemble the close-out package — final-stabilization documentation, inspection-record review and the NOT itself — tiered by site complexity.
Tier 1
Simple site
[PRICE]
Single phase, stabilized, records complete.
Tier 2
Standard
[PRICE]
Multi-phase, or inspection records to reconstruct.
Tier 3
Complex
[PRICE]
Multiple permits, disputed records or enforcement history.
Who's behind it
An independent Illinois review practice.
Stormwater Grader's reviewers graded construction-site SWPPPs across North Cook County from 2017 to 2020. The practice now applies a single published rubric statewide, working from the public record. We are not affiliated with the Illinois EPA, and a grade is not a regulatory determination.
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