{"id":3599,"date":"2026-05-07T12:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/?page_id=3599"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:12:24","slug":"best-management-practices-bmps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/best-management-practices-bmps\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Management Practices (BMPs)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In relation to water pollution, Best Management Practices, or BMPs, are practices that work to reduce the amount of pollution flowing to a body of water. There are several BMPs that are currently at work to reduce the amount of pollutants that flow into Lake Champlain. Some examples of BMPs are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bioretention Systems\/Rain Gardens (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/Green_Infrastructure\/Fact_sheet_Bioretention_Basins_Rain_Gardens.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PDF<\/a>)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/Green_Infrastructure\/Parking-Lot-Wetland.tif\" alt=\"\"><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Constructed Wetlands (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/Green_Infrastructure\/Constructed_Wetlands_Factsheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PDF<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/treecanopybmp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trees<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rain Barrels (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/Green_Infrastructure\/Rain_Barrels.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PDF<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pervious Pavement for driveways, walkways, and parking lots (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/Green_Infrastructure\/SW%20Friendly%20Driveways_web_v2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PDF<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grass\/vegetated\u00a0swales\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/Green_Infrastructure\/LID_Fact_Sheet_-_Vegetated_Swales.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PDF<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/raise-blade-research\">Raise the Blade<\/a>\u00a0of your lawnmower to promote stormwater infiltration<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other BMPs include wetlands, riparian buffers, healthy soils, green roofs, and infiltration trenches\/drywells<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These practices keep&nbsp;nutrients on the land instead of letting them flow into streams, rivers and lakes. These can help prevent cyanobacteria blooms (sometimes called harmful algal blooms) and protect ecosystem health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In relation to water pollution, Best Management Practices, or BMPs,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-3599","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3601,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3599\/revisions\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}