With the rapidly developing shorelines of Lake Norman, adverse impacts to water quality are more pronounced and also more noticeable as development density increases. Although erosion control and other water quality protection measures exist, oversight and enforcement is lacking. In a high-growth market with tight labor supply, land developers are sometimes only as good as the labor available.

With a background in geotechnical and environmental engineering, BOYLE was hired by a savvy developer to monitor construction activity, perform earthwork testing, and assist with documenting adverse water quality impacts to proactively monitor, detect, and eliminate site storm-water runoff leading to siltation of adjacent surface waters.