Inspection and Maintenance Guidance for Manufactured BMPs

ASCE/EWRI has assembled a Task Committee on guidelines for certification of manufactured stormwater BMPs. A nine-member subcommittee for maintenance was tasked by the larger committee to develop maintenance guidelines for manufactured stormwater BMPs. The subcommittee has developed recommendations for manufactured BMP maintenance in the following seven areas: (1) designing for maintenance, (2) defining standard maintenance triggers, (3) defining maintenance fundamentals for all manufactured BMPs, (4) defining maintenance tasks by BMP design; hydrodynamic or filter design, (5) identifying entities best able to maintain manufactured BMPs, and training requirements, (6) identifying entities to train maintenance providers, and (7) reviewing recommended disposal techniques for captured pollutants.