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The storm hit with a vengeance. While neighboring sites—where developers had skipped BMPs to save on "non-essentials"—saw their topsoil vanish into the streets, Ironwood Ridge held firm.

Here is a story of how these practices saved a major project from the brink of failure. The Storm at Ironwood Ridge Construction Site Best Management Practices Han...

On a Tuesday afternoon, the sky turned a bruised purple. A localized "rain bomb" was forecasted—four inches of rain in less than three hours. On a site with Ironwood's slope, that much water could transform the exposed clay into a river of mud, washing out the foundations and polluting the Colorado River watershed nearby. BMPs in Action The storm hit with a vengeance