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Introduction to the Minnesota Stormwater Manual

• About the Minnesota Stormwater Manual
• Help
• Disclaimers

Stormwater concepts and stormwater management

• General Information: Overview, research, references
• Stormwater treatment concepts: Treatment train, BMP selection

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 control practices (Best Management Practices)

By type

• Construction practices
• Pre-treatment practices
• Post-construction practices
• Non-structural practices
• Structural practices

By treatment mechanism

• 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

Reference

• Tables
• Plant information
• Images, CAD drawings: Includes links to CAD drawings, photos, schematics, graphs, and other images
• Checklists
• Miscellaneous information: Contains references, forms, links, issue papers
• Acronyms
• Symbols
• Glossary (definitions)
• BMP terminology

Documents

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

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Minnesota Stormwater Manual

General Information

1. Overview of basic stormwater concepts
2. Stormwater research and education
3. References for general stormwater information
4. Minnesota maps

Stormwater treatment concepts

1. Integrated stormwater management
2. Using the treatment train approach to BMP selection
3. Process for selecting Best Management Practices

Stormwater function of Best Management Practices (BMPs). Blue hyperlinks are indicated for BMPs contained in this manual.

Best Management Practice	Prevention and education	Infiltration	Storage, harvesting and reuse	Filtration	Settling	Chemical
Civic engagement	x
Education	x
Pollution prevention	x
Road de-icing	x
Yard waste management	x
Better site design	x
Construction/erosion sediment control	x
Harvesting/reuse			x
Street sweeping	x
Green roofs			x	x
Turf		x		x
Permeable pavement		x		x
Tree boxes and tree trenches		x		x
Infiltration basin and Infiltration trench		x		x
Bioinfiltration		x		x
Biofiltration				x
Swales		x		x	x
Sand filter				x
Iron enhanced sand filter (Minnesota Filter)				x		x
Stormwater ponds					x
Stormwater wetlands					x
Subsurface gravel wetlands					x
Hydrodynamic devices					x
Filtration devices				x
Chemical treatment						x

Best Management Practices

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1. Pre-treatment
2. Individual Best Management Practices
   1. Pollution prevention
   2. Better site design
   3. Stormwater re-use and rainwater harvesting
   4. Temporary construction erosion and sediment control
      1. Alleviating compaction from construction activities
   5. Green roofs (+)
   6. Turf
   7. Permeable pavement (+)
   8. Trees
   9. Bioretention (+)
      1. Rain garden: see Bioretention
   10. Infiltration basin (+)
   11. Infiltration trench (+)
   12. Filtration (+)
       1. Swales
       2. Sand filters
   13. Iron enhanced sand filter (Minnesota Filter) (+)
   14. Stormwater ponds (+)
   15. Stormwater wetlands (+)
   16. Hydrodynamic devices
   17. Filtration devices
   18. Chemical treatment
3. Unified sizing criteria section (+)

Minimal Impact Design Standards (MIDS)

Link to the MIDS webpage for access to webex presentations, additional technical documents, meeting minutes.

1. Overview of Minimal Impact Design Standards (MIDS)
2. Performance goals for new development, re-development and linear projects
3. Design Sequence Flowchart-Flexible treatment options
   1. Design sequence flow chart
4. Community Assistance Package
5. MIDS calculator
   1. Calculator - link to the MIDS calculator
   2. User’s Guide
   3. Links to Manual pages that address the MIDS calculator
   4. MIDS calculator sample exercises
6. Performance curves for MIDS calculator
7. Training and workshop materials and modules
8. Technical documents

Stormwater modeling, models and calculators

View all articles in this section and in the next section (Stormwater pollutant removal/reduction credits) as a single document.

1. Introduction to stormwater modeling
2. Available stormwater models and selecting a model
3. Detailed information on specific models
4. What is the pre-development condition

Stormwater pollutant removal/reduction credits

View all articles in this section and in the previous section (Stormwater modeling, models and calculators) as a single document.

1. Overview of stormwater credits
2. Information on pollutant removal by BMPs
3. Calculating stormwater volume and pollutant reductions and credits

Regulatory

1. Regulatory information
2. Additional regulatory information

Minnesota specific issues and information

1. Cold climate impact on runoff management
2. Stormwater infiltration and constraints on infiltration (View articles as a single document)
3. Mosquito control and stormwater management
4. Managing stormwater sediments
5. Minnesota plant lists
6. Special waters and other sensitive receiving waters
7. Road salt
8. Stormwater management for lake protection and restoration

Computer-aided design and drafting (CAD/CADD) drawings

1. CADD images for individual best management practices
2. Links to .dwg files

References, forms, links, and issue papers

1. References
2. Forms (including field inspection forms)
3. Links
4. Issue papers
5. Stormwater manuals

Acronyms, symbols and glossary

1. Acronyms
2. Symbols
3. Glossary (definitions)
4. BMP terminology

Construction stormwater

Construction stormwater program

1. Construction stormwater permit

Industrial stormwater

1. Stormwater program for industrial activity
2. Industrial Stormwater 2015 – 2020 Permit benchmark monitoring requirements
3. Industrial Stormwater 2015 – 2020 Permit effluent monitoring requirements

Municipal stormwater

1. Stormwater Program for Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4)
2. MS4 General Permit
3. MS4 General Permit Application Information
4. Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs)
5. MS4 Annual Report

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