Stormwater Control: Best Practices

This article suggests ways to apply best management practices for stormwater control. The author describes subsurface drains, such as perforated pipe, tubes or tiles placed underground to remove moisture from areas where vegetation provides ground cover. Channels such as road ditches or sloping shoulders are described, as well as diversions, spreaders, buffers, paved flumes, silt fences and porous and seal paving. In addition, the article includes graphic renditions showing interceptor drains for hill seeps, a comparison of grasses for stabilizing poor soils, and descriptions of vegetated swales.