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:*<span title="This category provides links to information on how to design, construct/build, operate and maintain, and assess the performance of bmps. Numerous tables and images in this manual provide specifications and details."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_2_-_Best_management_practices/Specifications_and_details '''Specifications and details''']</span> | :*<span title="This category provides links to information on how to design, construct/build, operate and maintain, and assess the performance of bmps. Numerous tables and images in this manual provide specifications and details."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_2_-_Best_management_practices/Specifications_and_details '''Specifications and details''']</span> | ||
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− | ::*[https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Specifications_and_details/Assessing_performance Assessing performance] | + | ::*<span title="Bmps can be assessed to determine how they are performing and if they are performing at a desired or intended level. This page provides links to pages that provide details about how bmps can be assessed for performance."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Specifications_and_details/Assessing_performance '''Assessing performance''']</span> |
− | ::*[https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Specifications_and_details/Construction_specifications Construction specifications and recommendations] | + | ::*<span title="This page provides links to pages that contain information on construction of stormwater bmps."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Specifications_and_details/Construction_specifications '''Construction specifications and recommendations''']</span> |
− | ::*[https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Specifications_and_details/Design_criteria Design criteria and recommendations] | + | ::*<span title="Best management practice (bmp) design specifications and guidance essentially act as cookbooks, describing how to build the bmp. Design information includes sizing, slope considerations, constraints, permit requirements, soil properties, etc. This page provides links to pages that provide information of how to design best management practices (bmps)."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Specifications_and_details/Design_criteria '''Design criteria and recommendations''']</span> |
− | ::*[https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Specifications_and_details/Images_and_CADD Images and CADD] | + | ::*<span title="This page contains images that provide specifications and details, and links to computer aided design and drafting (CADD) files. These files provide specifications and details related to design, construction, operation, and maintnance of stormwater best management practices."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Specifications_and_details/Images_and_CADD '''Images and CADD''']</span> |
− | ::*[https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Specifications_and_details/Operation_and_maintenance Operation and maintenance] | + | ::*<span title="Stormwater best management practices (bmps) must be maintained to keep their effectiveness, whether that be for removing pollutants, retaining runoff, providing habitat, sequestering carbon, and so on. Operation and maintenance (O&M) should be considered in the design and construction phases of bmp selection and implementation. This page provides links to pages that provide information on O&M."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Specifications_and_details/Operation_and_maintenance '''Operation and maintenance''']</span> |
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:*<span title="This page (Category) provides links to pages and subcategories that provide information on structural best management practices, including bioretention, tree trenches, swales, media filters, infiltration practices, permeable pavement, green roof, harvest/reuse, and manufactured treatment practices."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_2_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices '''Structural practices''']</span> | :*<span title="This page (Category) provides links to pages and subcategories that provide information on structural best management practices, including bioretention, tree trenches, swales, media filters, infiltration practices, permeable pavement, green roof, harvest/reuse, and manufactured treatment practices."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_2_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices '''Structural practices''']</span> | ||
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− | ::*[https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Bioretention Bioretention] | + | ::*<span title="Bioretention practice is a terrestrial-based (up-land as opposed to wetland) water quality and water quantity control process. Bioretention employs a simplistic, site-integrated design that provides opportunity for runoff infiltration, filtration, storage, and water uptake by vegetation. Bioretention is an important green stormwater infrastructure practice. This page (category) provides links to pages that provide information on bioretention. Also included are links to photos, other images, and uploaded documents."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Bioretention '''Bioretention''']</span> |
− | ::*[https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Constructed_stormwater_wetland Constructed stormwater wetland | + | ::*<span title="Wetlands are widely applicable stormwater treatment practices that provide both water quality treatment and water quantity control. Stormwater wetlands are best suited for drainage areas of at least 10 acres. When designed and maintained properly, stormwater wetlands can be an important aesthetic feature of a site. This page provides links to pages that provide information on constructed stormwater wetlands."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Constructed_stormwater_wetland '''Constructed stormwater wetland''']</span> |
− | ::*[https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Dry_swale Dry swale] | + | ::*<span title="Dry swales, sometimes called grass swales, are similar to bioretention cells but are configured as shallow, linear channels. Dry swales function primarily as a conveyance BMP, but provide treatment of stormwater runoff, particularly when used in tandem with check dams that temporarily retain water in a series of cells. Dry swales with an underdrain and engineered soil media are considered a filtration. Dry swales with in-situ soils capable of infiltration, (A or B soils) are considered infiltration practices. Dry swales are designed to prevent standing water. Dry swales typically have vegetative cover such as turf or native perennial grasses. This page provides links to pages that provide information on dry swales."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Dry_swale '''Dry swale''']</span> |
− | ::*[https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Green_roof Green roof] | + | ::*<span title="Green roofs consist of a series of layers that create an environment suitable for plant growth without damaging the underlying roof system. Green roofs create green space for public benefit, energy efficiency, and stormwater retention/ detention. Green roofs occur at the beginning of treatment trains. Green roofs provide filtering of suspended solids and pollutants associated with those solids, although total suspended solid (TSS) concentrations from traditional roofs are generally low. Green roofs provide both volume and rate control, thus decreasing the stormwater volume being delivered to downstream best management practices (BMPs). This page provides links to pages that provide information on green roofs."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Green_roof Green roof]</span> |
− | ::*[https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Infiltration_(trench/basin) Infiltration trench/basin] | + | ::*<span title="Stormwater infiltration is the process by which rainfall and stormwater runoff flows into and through the subsurface soil. Stormwater infiltration occurs when rainfall lands on pervious surfaces, when runoff flows across pervious surfaces, and when runoff is collected and directed to a stormwater infiltration Best Management Practice (BMP). For the purposes of this manual, infiltration BMPs are considered BMPs without underdrains. This page provides links to pages that provide information on infiltration practices."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Infiltration_(trench/basin) '''Infiltration trench/basin''']</span> |
− | ::*[https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Iron_enhanced_sand_filter Sand filter] | + | ::*<span title="Iron-enhanced sand filters are filtration best management practices (BMPs) that incorporate filtration engineered media mixed with iron. The iron removes several dissolved constituents, including phosphate ( dissolved phosphorus), from stormwater. Iron-enhanced sand filters may be particularly useful for achieving low phosphorus levels needed to improve nutrient impaired waters. This page (category) provides links to pages that provide information on iron enhanced sand filters."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Iron_enhanced_sand_filter '''Sand filter''']</span> |
− | ::*[https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Permeable_pavement Permeable pavement] | + | ::*<span title="Permeable pavements allow stormwater runoff to filter through surface voids into an underlying stone reservoir for temporary storage and/or infiltration. The most commonly used permeable pavement surfaces are pervious concrete, porous asphalt, and permeable interlocking concrete pavers (PICP). This page (category) provides links to pages that provide information on permeable pavement."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Permeable_pavement '''Permeable pavement''']</span> |
− | ::*[https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Proprietary_devices Proprietary devices] | + | ::*<span title="Proprietary systems are manufactured stormwater best management practice (bmps) and treatment systems available from commercial vendors. This page (Category) includes links to pages that provide information on proprietary practices that are primarily mtds. But we include links to categories having information on pretreatment practices."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Proprietary_devices '''Proprietary devices''']</span> |
− | ::*[https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Sand_filter,_iron_enhanced_sand_filter,_media_filter | + | ::*<span title="Sand filters, also called media filters or filtration basins, are a stormwater quality treatment system that works by capturing stormwater runoff and allowing this water to percolate through a sand-based filter media. This page (Category) contains links to pages and subcategories that provide information on sand filters, including iron enhanced sand filters."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Sand_filter,_iron_enhanced_sand_filter,_media_filter '''Sand filters, media filters, iron enhanced sand filter''']</span> |
− | ::*[https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Step_pool Step pool swale] | + | ::*<span title="Stormwater step pools are defined by design features that address higher energy flows due to more dramatic slopes than dry swales or wet swales. Using a series of pools, riffle grade control, native species vegetation and a sand seepage filter bed, flow velocities are reduced, treated, and, where applicable, infiltrated. This page provides links to pages that provide information on stormwater step pools."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Step_pool '''Step pool swale''']</span> |
− | ::*[https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Tree_trench_and_box Tree trench/box] | + | ::*<span title="Use of trees to manage stormwater runoff encompasses several practices. Tree trenches and tree boxes (collectively called tree BMPs), the most commonly implemented tree BMPs, can be incorporated anywhere in the stormwater treatment train but are most often located in upland areas of the treatment train. This page (Category) provides links to subcategories, pages, and media that provide information for trees and stormwater tree best management practices."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Tree_trench_and_box '''Tree trench/box''']</span> |
− | ::*[https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Wet_pond Wet pond] | + | ::*<span title="Stormwater ponds are typically installed as an end-of-pipe BMP at the downstream end of the treatment train. Stormwater pond size and outflow regulation requirements can be significantly reduced with the use of additional upstream BMPs. However, due to their size and versatility, stormwater ponds are often the only management practice employed at a site and therefore must be designed to provide adequate water quality and water quantity treatment for all regulated storms. This page provides links to pages that provide information on constructed stormwater wet ponds."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Wet_pond '''Wet pond''']</span> |
− | ::*[https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Wet_swale Wet swale] | + | ::*<span title="Wet swales occur when the water table is located very close to the surface or water does not readily drain out of the swale. A wet swale acts as a very long and linear shallow biofiltration or linear wetland treatment system. Wet swales do not provide volume reduction and have limited treatment capability. This page provides links to pages that provide information on wet swales."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Category:Level_3_-_Best_management_practices/Structural_practices/Wet_swale '''Wet swale''']</span> |
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