Business Best Management Practices

How a business develops, operates and maintains its property can have a dramatic effect on the local environment and on the entire watershed. With businesses come buildings and paved parking areas that can increase stormwater runoff and generate pollutants from those areas (i.e., oil, grease, fertilizers, road salt).

There are several BMPs that may apply to your business footprint to improve water quality in local water resources and to reduce the potential for flooding:

• Bioswale
• Detention practices
• Disposing hazardous waste
• Dry wells and infiltration trenches
• Filter systems
• Flood insurance
• Floodplain building relocation
• Floodproofing
• Green roof
• Impervious area reduction
• Infiltration basin
• Landscape design and maintenance
• Nutrient and pesticide management
• Operations and maintenance
• Porous pavement and permeable pavors
• Rain barrel/cistern
• Rain garden
• Runoff reduction techniques
• Septic system
• Snow and ice removal
• Stream channel and riparian area management
• Stream restoration
• Street and parking maintenance
• Water quality filters 

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Bioswale