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Minnesota Stormwater Manual
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    • Basic stormwater concepts
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    • Stormwater pollutant transport and treatment mechanisms
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  • Stormwater Management
    • Stormwater management concepts and concerns
    • Stormwater Best Management Practices (BMPs)
    • Comprehensive approaches to stormwater management
    • Design and maintenance for winter runoff management
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    • Soil health, assessment, and management
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  • Design, Assessment, Maintenance
    • Design Guidance for Stormwater BMPs
    • Assessing the performance of stormwater BMPs
    • Credits for stormwater volume and pollutant reductions
    • Stormwater monitoring objectives and methods
    • Operation and maintenance of stormwater BMPs
  1. Design Guidance for Stormwater BMPs

Design guidance for pretreatment practices

This section is currently under construction.

Design Guidance for Stormwater BMPs

  • Unified sizing criteria
  • Design guidance for pretreatment practices
    • Pretreatment sizing for basins and filters strips
  • Design criteria for structural stormwater BMPs
  • Construction specifications for Stormwater BMPs
  • Special considerations and site constraints
  • Design details (pdf) for BMPs
  • Design details (.dwg) for BMPs
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