Overview Of Best Management Practices (BMPs)

What are Baseline BMPs?

• Good housekeeping: reduce spill potential, routine inspections
• Preventive maintenance: maintain pipes, pumps, drum/tank storage and stormwater devices
• Visual Inspections: signs of obvious stormwater contamination in outdoor storage and processing areas
• Spill Prevention and Response; spill containment of drums and tanks, spill clean-up procedures, easily accessible spill response products.
• Sediment and Erosion Control: Control methods to high erosion areas due to topography activities or other factors.
• Runoff Management: flow diversion, filtering using catch basin inserts, use of sumps, berms, mitigative techniques such as vacuuming, use of sorbents.

What are Advanced BMPs? 

• Vegetated Filter Strips
• Detention Basins and Ponds
• Catch Basin Filters (disposable)
• Passive Skimmers
• Litter Removal Devices
• Silt Fences