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Appendix: Supporting documents for stormwater manual updates

This page contains documents and memos received by MPCA to support development of information on various topic in the covered in the stormwater manual. 

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Bioretention

The following documents were submitted as part of Minnesota Stormwater Manual updates conducted in 2013 and 2014. See Acknowledgements for bioretention.

Construction stormwater

The following documents were submitted by the contractor as final drafts. The information from these was used to update the manual. The documents may have undergone slight formatting, but the content is essentially what was submitted by the contractor. Note that several of these documents address more than one construction stormwater best management practice.

Green roofs

Infiltration

The following documents are final drafts delivered through contract work which ended June 30, 2015.

Iron enhanced sand filter

Pretreatment

The following document was submitted as part of Minnesota Stormwater Manual updates conducted in 2015 and 2016. See Acknowledgements for pretreatment.

The following document was submitted in 2013 as part of the Minimal Impact Design Standards project. The paper addresses performance and design considerations associated with two common pretreatment BMPs: (1) vegetated filter strips and (2) flow-through structures.

Stormwater and rainwater harvest and use/reuse

The following documents were submitted by the contractor as final drafts. The information from these was used to update the manual. The documents may have undergone slight formatting, but the content is essentially what was submitted by the contractor.

Street sweeping

Swales

These documents were delivered to the MPCA by contractors through work orders. Some of the documents may contain comments and suggested edits. These documents were used to update the manual wiki.

Trees