Maintaining Your Stormwater Feature

Inspections and maintenance of stormwater management facilities, often referred to as best management practices (BMPs), are necessary to ensure the facility functions as designed and has a positive impact on local water quality.

All new construction and redevelopment sites in the SEMSWA service area are required to provide stormwater controls to address higher runoff volumes and pollutant loads associated with an increase in impervious surfaces once the project is completed. Stormwater management facilities are physical structures designed to reduce the amount of pollution generated by stormwater runoff and attenuate runoff volumes. However, the long-term benefits of stormwater management facilities are attained only when they are maintained regularly. Unmaintained BMPs can lead to flooding, poor water quality, and streambank erosion in our creeks and rivers.

Water quality best management practices (BMPs) such as this extended detention basin, must be maintained regularly to ensure functionality.

Unmaintained BMPs can lead to flooding, poor water quality, and streambank erosion in our creeks and rivers.