History of Innovative Best Management Practice Development and its Role in Addressing Water Quality Limited Waterbodies
| Autor: | George Ice |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Sustainable development
Pollution Environmental Engineering Quality management Best practice media_common.quotation_subject Water resources Environmental protection Environmental Chemistry Environmental science Water quality Water pollution Environmental planning Nonpoint source pollution General Environmental Science Civil and Structural Engineering media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Environmental Engineering. 130:684-689 |
| ISSN: | 1943-7870 0733-9372 |
| DOI: | 10.1061/(asce)0733-9372(2004)130:6(684) |
| Popis: | Best management practices (BMPs) are practical control measures (including technological, economic, and institutional considerations) that have been demonstrated to effectively minimize water quality impacts. The use of BMPs is widely accepted as the most appropriate method of controlling nonpoint sources of pollution because BMPs prevent or minimize pollution rather than retrospectively respond to it. Still, there is a stigma that BMPs do not afford quite the same degree of protection or assurance of pollution control that effluent treatment and process controls do for point sources. Here we provide a brief history of BMPs and their emergence as a practical water pollution control tool for nonpoint source activities, with a focus on the history of forestry BMPs. This history demonstrates the variety of BMPs used to avoid or minimize the generation of nonpoint source pollutants or reduce delivery of these materials to streams. It also demonstrates the extensive testing of BMP effectiveness that has been c... |
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