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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.
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What are Advanced BMPs? |
- Vegetated Filter Strips
- Detention Basins and Ponds
- Catch Basin Filters (disposable)
- Passive Skimmers
- Litter Removal Devices
- Silt Fences
- Drain Inlet Inserts
- Permanent Catch Basin Inserts
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