best management practices

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Best management practices (BMPs) are activities, maintenance procedures, prohibition of certain practices, and other management activities that work to reduce pollutants from entering waterways.  BMPs can be either non-structural, such as cover crops and pollution prevention, or structural, such as detention ponds and bioswales.  BMPs can be applied to both point and nonpoint sources of pollution.

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