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Best Management Practices (BMPs) or Green Infrastructure
Best Management Practices (BMPs) or green infrastructure deals with the incorporation of stormwater management activities.
Implementation of BMPs has been through a partnership with the Clean Water Partnership Program (CWP).
Treating and Teaching (T&T) Program
“Consider the entire school grounds as a teaching opportunity, with a central space as the outdoor learning area or classroom.”
Training and motivating educators and facility managers to enable outdoor learning is at the core of the Treating and Teaching (T&T) Program.
Treating and Teaching has been implemented at 55 schools and has also included stormwater BMPs at a few offices, centers and community complexes.
Learn More About Storm Water BMP Types
“BMPs are classified and conceptualized as scale-based and type-based. The scale-based category classifies them according to the size of the application area, such as lot-, community-, or watershed-scales. The type-base category classifies them into three types according to the geometric properties:
- Point BMPs: Practices that capture upstream drainage at a specific location and may use a combination of detention, infiltration, evaporation, settling, and transformation to manage flow and remove pollutants.”
- Linear BMPs: Narrow linear shapes adjacent to stream channels that provide filtration of runoff, nutrient uptake, and ancillary benefits of stream shading, wildlife habitat, and aesthetic value.
- Area BMPs: Land-based management practices that affect impervious area, land cover, and pollutant input.”1
Point BMPs Implemented in T & T Program
What are Point BMPs?
Point BMPs “capture upstream drainage at a specific location and may use a combination of detention, infiltration, evaporation, settling, and transformation to manage flow and remove pollutants.”1
- Bioretention - 50
- Micro-Bioretention - 81
- Rainwater Harvesting - 1
- Oil Grit Separator - 3
- Submerged Gravel Wetlands - 11
- Infiltration Basin - 1
- Detention Structure Dry Pond - 1
- Extended Detention Structure - 2
- Sand Filter - 3
- Retention Pond (Wet Pond) - 1
Linear BMPs Implemented in T & T Program
What are Linear BMPs?
Linear BMPs “provide filtration of runoff, nutrient uptake, and ancillary benefits of stream shading, wildlife habitat, and aesthetic value.”1
- Grassed Swales - 3
- Infiltration Trenches - 11
- Bio-Swales - 4
Linear BMPs Types and Quantities in PGCPS
Area BMPs Implemented in T & T Program
What are Area BMPs?
Area BMPs are “Land-based management practices that affect impervious area, land cover, and pollutant input.”1
- Permeable Pavements - 11
- Green Roof - Intensive - 2
- Green Roof - Extensive - 1
- Flood Management Area - 3
- Rain Gardens - 3
- Landscape infiltration - 1
BMP Implementation in Our Schools
BMPs in Elementary Schools
BMPs in Middle Schools
BMPs in High Schools
1 Environmental Protection Agency, Best Management Practices (BMPs) Siting Tool | US EPA as published on April 14, 2023.