Water quality facility investigation : summary report.

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• Creators:
  Strecker, Eric ; Leisenring, Marc ; Huber, Wayne ; Mabey, Matthew
• Corporate Creators:
  Oregon. Dept. of Transportation. Research Unit
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Runoff
  • Water quality management
  • Runoff--Oregon--Management
  • Water quality management--Oregon
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-OR-RD-07-04
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Oregon
• Edition:
  Summary report.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Oregon. Dept. of Transportation. Research Unit
• Abstract:
  The genesis for this research project was a desire to comply with the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination ; System (NPDES) as cost effectively as possible. The construction of stormwater handling and treatment facilities is ; costly because of the labor, materials and land required. After these facilities have been built, they then present an ; ongoing maintenance liability. In addition, the provisions of NPDES call for monitoring that presents another ; ongoing cost. Research in all these areas could lead to improved water quality, reduced costs, or accomplishing ; both simultaneously. This project evaluated the state of practice and available data regarding stormwater Best ; Management Practices (BMPs) and monitoring, devised a streamlined and simplified approach to try and satisfy ; monitoring requirements, and then attempted to use that approach to evaluate both traditional and innovative ; stormwater BMPs. These attempts identified obstacles to systematically and cost effectively monitoring ; stormwater BMPs and possible remedies to these obstacles. The key outcomes of the project were the validation of ; a novel BMP, the identification of obstacles to monitoring, and a template for developing BMP monitoring plans.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/21852/dot_21852_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.27 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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