Best Management Practices - Residential
A Best Management Practice (BMP) is defined by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a technique, measure or structural control that is used for a given set of conditions to manage the quantity and improve the quality of stormwater runoff efficiently and cost-effectively.
Learn how to maintain your BMPs: Proper lawn care, auto care, and pet waste disposal can help reduce stormwater pollution.
For more information, visit:
- Credit Application -- Stormwater Management Fee
- Learn How to Be Stormwater Smart
- Report Illicit Discharges
- Why is Stormwater a Problem?
- Know the Impaired Streams by You
- Homeowners Guide to Stormwater BMP Maintenance
- Pennsylvania Stormwater Best Management Practices Manual
- The Homeowner's Guide to Stormwater
- EPA: Take Winter with a Grain of Salt
- PennState Extension: Plant a Rain Garden
- National Stormwater Calculator
Informational handouts
- Understanding Stormwater Regionalization
- Illicit Discharge Detection & Elimination (IDDE)
- Funding Stormwater Programs / EPA
- Stormwater and the Construction Industry
- 6 BEST Stormwater Management Practices (Public outreach trifold)
- Avoid the Clog Trash the FOG (Fats, Oils & Grease)
- Street Sweeping
- Swimming Pool Water Discharge Guidelines
- Pool Water Discharge Information
- What To Do with That Motor Oil (For oil recycling locations, see the Luzerne County Residential Recycling Guide)