How to Inspect Your Stormwater Facilities

Inspecting your stormwater facilities isn’t that complicated if you know what to look for. Each type of Stormwater Control Measure (SCM, formerly called “BMPs,” or Best Management Practices) has its own characteristics. What you need to inspect depends on the type of facility you are responsible for. In most cases, you’re are responsible for inspecting and maintaining any SCMs that is either on your property, or under your control.

The following links take you to a collection of photographs showing the “good, the bad, and the ugly” of stormwater management:

Basins and "Ponds" (structures to hold water)

Infiltration (anything that allows the water to soak into the ground)

Inlets (the way stormwater enters an SCM)

Pervious Pavement (hard surfaces that let water go through)

Rain Gardens (using plants to reduce water volume)

Swales and other conveyances (moving water from point "A" to point "B")

Wet Ponds & Constructed Wetlands (man-made water features) --- document to come

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