Assessment of Stormwater Best Management Practices
Principal Investigators: James L. Anderson, Professor, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate and John S. Gulliver, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Assessment of Stormwater Best Managment Practices Manual
For the latest version of the manual, visit http://stormwater.safl.umn.edu/
The University of Minnesota, through contract with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, is developed a Guidance Document that outlined and explained proper methodology for the assessment of stormwater best management practices (BMPs). The document promotes the "Four Levels of Assessment" which increase in difficulty and cost from 1 to 4:
- Visual Inspection
- Capacity Testing
- Synthetic Runoff testing
- Monitoring
The Guidance Document has organized existing stormwater BMPs into categories according to the process by which pollutants are removed from stormwater runoff:
- Biologically Enhanced Practices
- Filtration Practices
- Infiltration Practices
- Sedimentation Practices
- Source Reduction
Andy Erickson, M.S.
Research Fellow
St. Anthony Falls Laboratory
University of Minnesota
2 Third Ave. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Phone: 612-624-4629
E-mail: eric0706@umn.edu