Best Management Practices

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-003062",
  "term": "Best Management Practices",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Procedures or controls other than effluent limitations to prevent or reduce pollution of surface water (includes runoff control, spill prevention, and operating procedures).\n\n2. Structural, nonstructural and managerial techniques that are recognized to be the most effective and practical means to control nonpoint source pollutants yet are compatible with the productive use of the resource to which they are applied. BMPs are used in both urban and agricultural areas.\n\n3. The most effective and practical ways to control pollutants and meet environmental quality goals. BMPs exist for forestry, agriculture, stormwater and many other sectors.\n\n4. Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce the pollution of waters of the United States. BMPs also include but are not limited to treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or wastewater disposal, or drainage from raw material storage.\n\n5. Methods that have been determined to be the most effective, practical means of preventing or reducing pollution from non-point sources.\n\n6. Best Management Practices are physical, structural or managerial practices that decreases the potential for facilities to pollute drinking water. They can be used singly or in combination as appropriate in a particular situation.\n\n7. Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce pollution. BMPs also include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw material storage.\n\n8. Policies, practices, procedures, or structures implemented to mitigate the adverse environmental effects on surface water quality resulting from development. BMPs are categorized as structural or non-structural.\n\n9. Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices other than traditional physical, chemical, or biological wastewater treatment. BMPs can be either nonstructural (good housekeeping practices, pollution prevention, contour plowing, cover crops) or structural (wet or dry detention ponds), and can include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control site runoff, spillage, or leaks. BMPs can be applied to both nonpoint and point sources of water pollution and can be employed as part of either regulatory or voluntary programs.",
  "abbreviation": "bmp",
  "synonyms": [
    "BMPs"
  ],
  "subject": "Water",
  "references": [
    "Environmental Issues Terms & Acronyms; Pesticides Glossary",
    "Drinking Water Technical & Legal Terms",
    "Chesapeake Bay Glossary",
    "Urban Watershed Management Research Terminology",
    "Chesapeake Bay TMDL Glossary",
    "Underground Injection Control Terms",
    "Effluent Limitations Guidelines (ELG) Glossary",
    "Aquatic Resources Awareness Course for Real Estate Appraisers Glossary",
    "N-STEPS Online Glossary of Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/best-management-practices/"
}