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1. Introduction.
   
2. Review selected readings on types of best management practices (BMPs).
   
3. Review selected readings on particular BMPs.
   
4. Assignment.
   
5. Additional reading.
   

1. Introduction to module 12:

   These pages describe a comprehensive list of pollution control devices (wrongly called best management practices, or BMPs - a best management practice is a structural device that temporarily stores or treats urban stormwater runoff to reduce flooding, remove pollutants, and provide other amenities, or a non-structural idea that will help reduce the flux of pollutants and runoff).

   Your first task is to consider the various categories of BMPs, and your second to search a little further into the various types of BMPs.

   An good example, is the 2-screen list of highway BMPs posted by Rob at [http://www.chi.on.ca/bmpstructural.html] (structural) and at [http://www.chi.on.ca/bmpnonstructural.html] (non-structural)

2. Review selected readings on categories of BMPs:
   
   • infiltration,
   • detention,
   • retention,
   • non-structural (education, political etc.),
   • vegetative,
   • high-rate treatment,
   • source controls.
   To fill in the details (provide you with the background as to why it is convenient to categorize BMPs in some way) read the following stuff on BMPs, their applications, impacts, and use in planning and design):
   • What stormwater management practices are. [http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/NPS/MMGI/Chapter4/ch4-1.html#Practices]
   • BMPs and stormwater quality, APWA task force [http://www.nctcog.dst.tx.us/envir/water/storm/allbmps.html]
   • developing successful stormwater control plans [http://www.bts.gov/smart/cat/RUNOFF.html]

3. Review selected readings on particular BMPs:
   Your second task is to search and read further in the one category and create a list of particular BMPs within that category. Do a search on the topic (e.g. storm and water and best and management and practice and porous or permeable and pavement).

   I do not have time to do the search for you, but here are a few examples of further readings:

   1. Source control/street sweeping:
      • City of Almeda study [http://www.schwarze.com/~asforum/Secure/topics/alameda12_94/alameda1.html]
      • American Sweeper magazine [http://www.schwarze.com/~asforum/Secure/v6n1/.www.html]
   2. Infiltration:
      • Groundwater pollution and infiltration BMPs [http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/environmental/InfiltrationBMPs.htm]
   3. Vortex separators, sand filters, water quality inlets, and wet detention ponds:
      • Vortex separators, sand filters, water quality inlets, and wet detention ponds as BMPs [http://enviro.nfesc.navy.mil/p2library/section10.html]

4. Additional reading:

   Caution: You are NOT required to read all this material! It is offered here as course enrichment - please do not consider that this material is required or necessary. You are invited to dip into it to learn more details: when you click here you get a list of the illustrations and can select individual items, or you can choose to step through any or all of the six entire presentations.

   Most of the following presentations are available in a better format at CHI's HongKong seminar site.

   • For a non-structural BMP called Stormwater planning (SWP) click here
     
   • For a non-structural BMP called Pollution control planning (PCP) click here
     
   • For a non-structural BMP called Watershed management (WMP) click here
     
   • For a non-structural BMP called Operation and maintenance (O&M) of stormwater management practices (SWMPs) click here
     
   • For a non-structural BMP called Combined sewer overflow (CSO)guidelines click here
     
   • For a review of legal issues in the approval of BMP designs click here
     
   • For my collection of slides of BMP designs and installations click here