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Welcome to the Minnesota Stormwater Manual website. This website was developed using Mediawiki, a wiki application that allows for easy editing and that has powerful search abilities. See Introduction to the wiki for more information.

Introduction to the Minnesota Stormwater Manual

• About the Minnesota Stormwater Manual
• Help
• Disclaimers

Stormwater concepts and stormwater management

• General stormwater information
• Stormwater treatment concepts: Treatment train, BMP selection
• Alleviating compaction from construction activities
• Liners for stormwater management
• Green Infrastructure for stormwater management

The Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC) released a new guidance document called Stormwater Best Management Practices Performance Evaluation.

Stormwater issues

• Stormwater pollutants
• Stormwater infiltration
• Protection and restoration of receiving waters
• Minnesota specific issues: cold climate, mosquito control, road salt management, pond sediment management, and more
• Stormwater and landscape guidance for solar farms and solar projects

Stormwater control practices (Best Management Practices)

By type

• Construction practices
• Pretreatment practices
• Post-construction practices
• Non-structural practices
• Structural practices
• Stormwater and rainwater harvest and use/reuse

By treatment mechanism

• Pretreatment practices
• Filtration practices
• Infiltration practices
• Sedimentation practices
• Chemical practices

Regulatory, permitting

• Construction stormwater: Permit, documents, fact sheets
• Municipal stormwater: Permit, documents, fact sheets
• Industrial stormwater: Permit, documents, fact sheets
• Regulatory information
• Additional regulatory information

Models, calculations, methodologies, pollutant removal, credits

• Minimal Impact Design Standards
• Stormwater models, calculators and modeling
• Stormwater pollutant removal, stormwater credits
• Unified sizing criteria

Communications and outreach

• Stormwater newsletters
• Stormwater blogs
• In the news
• Stormwater Manual webinars
• MIDS calculator videos
• MIDS training and workshop materials
• Stormwater Manual meetings

Stormwater research and education

• Stormwater education
• Stormwater research
• University of Minnesota St. Anthony Falls Stormwater Research

Reference

• Minnesota Stormwater Manual photo galleries
• Tables
• Plant information
• Images, CAD drawings: Includes links to CAD drawings, photos, schematics, graphs, and other images
• Checklists
• Links to other stormwater manuals
• Miscellaneous information: Contains references, forms, links, issue papers
• Acronyms
• Symbols
• Glossary (definitions)
• BMP terminology
• Conversion units
• References from the original manual. NOTE: Newer reference lists are associated with topics on individual pages in the manual.

Documents

• pdf versions of Manual topics
• Technical support: Contains a variety of technical information used in developing the Manual