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    • Utah Watershed Contact List
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  • Projects
    • Success Stories
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  • Data & Reports
    • Final Project Reports
    • Data
  • Outreach
    • Education & Information Ideas
    • Small Acreage Farms
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    • What is nonpoint source pollution?
    • Management of Utah's NPS Pollution
    • Best Management Practices
    • Assessment and Monitoring
    • The Status of Utah's Waterbodies
  • Find Your Watershed
    • Bear River Watershed
    • Uinta Basin Watershed
    • Utah Lake / Jordan River Watershed
    • Great Salt Lake Watershed
    • Western Colorado Watershed
    • Weber River Watershed
    • Cedar/Beaver Watershed
    • Lower Colorado Watershed
    • Southeast Colorado Watershed
    • Sevier River Watershed

Best management practices

Best Management Practices describe ways to manage your land or your activities to reduce or prevent pollution of surface and groundwater near you. These practices protect your family's health, but also help protect the other uses of our water such as recreation, animal habitat, fisheries, and agricultural uses such as irrigation or stock watering. Best management practices are usually simple and low tech, and benefit everybody and are divided into agriculture, urban, and forest practices.
Some useful resources for best management practices:
  • ​Common Best Management Practices Implemented in Utah (Appendix A of Utah Nonpoint Source Pollution Management Plan)
  • Best Practices for Riverfront Communities: A guide for consistent, but flexible, management of the Jordan River environment
  • USU Water Quality Extension Information on Best Management Practices
  • Forest BMPs: Forest Roads, Streamside Management, Stream Crossings
  • Utah Division of Forest, Fire and State Land's Forest Water Quality Guideline​
  • Implementation Appendix to Utah TMDL report
Examples of agricultural, urban and forest BMPs:
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Wide Riparian Buffer
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Construction Fencing
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Proper containment at animal operations
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Water-wise Landscaping
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Proper Forest Road Construction
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Pick up after your pets
What is nonpoint source pollution
management of utah's nps pollution
assessment and monitoring
status of utah's waterbodies

Utah Division of Water Quality

USU Water Quality Extension

Utah Department of Agriculture and Food

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