Showing posts with label precedents. Show all posts
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Friday, October 29, 2010

LA's methodology for similar project

LA did a similar project and there's a pretty thorough user guide online at http://www.labmpmethod.org/.  I think it will be very useful as we develop something like this ourselves.  Their approach was:
  1. Prioritize catchments based on need (i.e., pollutant-loading, receiving water issues, etc.);
  2. Identify potential BMPs opportunities within high priority catchments (based on factors such as land ownership, etc.);
  3. Identify appropriate BMPs (based on factors such as cost, maintenance, effectiveness, etc.); and
  4. Develop site-specific implementation strategies (based on site-specific evaluations).
Some questions I have:
  • are we focusing on wet weather only or including dry weather?
  • what pollutants?  bateria?  metals?  trash?
  • what pollution data can we get?