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:
Wide Riparian Buffer
Construction Fencing
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Proper containment at animal operations
Water-wise Landscaping
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Proper Forest Road Construction
Pick up after your pets
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