Stormwater Best Management Practices
Adopting the BMP Manual for Water Quality
This report explores several pertinent questions that typically
arise as municipal leaders evaluate how best to use the manual in their community.
(pdf files)
- Introduction
- What problems does the BMP Manual help solve?
- How will my community benefit?
- How and why was the manual developed?
- Who should use the manual?
- What is in the manual?
- How should a community prepare to use it?
- What local communities are implementing BMPs?
APWA/MARC BMP Manual
This manual provides guidance for land development practices within the region. It provides developers, engineers and planners with flexible tools to reduce the volume of stormwater discharge while conserving water quality at the same time.
Local BMP Projects
(pdf files)
- 39th and Coachmen Stormwater Detention Retrofit
- 83rd Terrace & Rosehill Stream Restoration
- Anita B. Gorman Discovery Center Rain Garden
- Coon Creek Constructed Wetlands
- Coon Creek Porous Asphalt Parking Lot
- Coon Creek Underground Infiltration Playfield
- Harmony Park Stream Stabilization
- Indian Creek Stream Restoration
- Johnson County Government Sunset Office Building Bioretention
- Lazy Branch Creek Streambank Stabilization
- Lenexa Fire Station #3 Bioretention
- Leo G. Koehler Constructed Wetland
- Leo G. Koehler Rain Garden
- Little Blue Trace Restoration
- Manchester Park Stream Restoration
- Mize Blvd. Bioretention Cells
- Mize Blvd. Constructed Wetlands
- Oakbrook Low Impact Development
- Platte Purchase Park Bioswales
- Quinton Heights Neighborhood Bioretention
- Residential Stormwater Recycling
- Resurrection Cemetery Wet Pond/Wetland
- St. Paul’s United Methodist Church Wet Pond
- Town Creek Stream Restoration
- Vortechnics Vortcapture VC-70 and Hancor Stormwater Quality Unit
- Zona Rosa Bioretention
Presentations from our APWA 5600/BMP Manual Training in March 2007 can be found on the publications page.