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Management Practices (BMPs)
New Castle County and DelDOT operate and maintain public streets, roads, and highways to minimize the discharge of pollutants. Stormwater Best Management Practices or BMPs are practices that are used to reduce pollutants typically present in stormwater runoff, prior to the runoff entering streams and rivers. There are two types of stormwater BMPs; Structural BMPs and Non-Structural BMPs. |
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DelDOT has begun a long-term Best Management Practice (BMP) performance monitoring and research program. This includes wet weather monitoring of stormwater outfalls and BMPs, as well as chemical and biological monitoring of streams that receive stormwater discharges from DelDOT maintained BMP's. Long-term objectives of DelDOT’s BMP monitoring program include the following: |
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