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Best Management Practice (BMP) Implementation & Planning

Best Management Practice (BMP) Implementation & Planning. Randy Vogel (AES Ecologist/IL Branch Manager). Nature is the Best BMP.

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Best Management Practice (BMP) Implementation & Planning

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  1. Best Management Practice (BMP) Implementation & Planning Randy Vogel (AES Ecologist/IL Branch Manager)

  2. Nature is the Best BMP • During presettlement times nature was the best BMP. Nature’s natural “Treatment Train” processes improved water quality, reducing flooding, and provided open space for diverse fauna and flora. 1840 Public Land Survey Map of Algonquin Area

  3. Nature’s Stormwater Treatment Train

  4. How do BMPs Address Watershed Issues? • Today, our landscape is highly altered requiring our innovative BMP approaches to mimic nature’s treatment train process and address watershed issues. General Watershed Issues • Improve Water Quality • Reduce Flooding • Preserve and Enhance Open Space for Natural & Designated Infiltration

  5. What types of BMPs Best Address Watershed Goals? • Detention Basin Retrofits • Rain Gardens • Streambank Restoration • Wetland Restoration • Native Plant Buffers Along Streams and Open Space • Greenways Protection and Enhancement

  6. Treatment Wetland Buffers Naturalized Detention Basin Bio-Swale Precipitation Rain Garden The Urban Stormwater Treatment Train

  7. Rain Gardens • Benefits: • First Stage of filtering and flood protection • Deep rooted native plantings enhance infiltration

  8. Bio-Swales • Benefits: • Collects water from hard surfaces such as roads and driveways • Filters and moves water to ponds and treatment wetlands

  9. Buffers Algonquin Water Treatment Plant Buffer • Benefits: • Deep rooted grasses and forbs absorb and infiltrate water • Wildlife habitat

  10. Naturalized Detention Basins Award winning Arquilla Detention Basin Naturalization in Algonquin • Benefits: • Provide breakdown of nutrients and pollutants in the water • Control flooding • Creates habitat

  11. Treatment Wetlands • Benefits: • Provide additional breakdown of nutrients and pollutants in the water • Control flooding • Creates habitat

  12. Existing Open Space in Algonquin Kingsbrook Crossing

  13. Village BMP Projects Arquilla Detention Water Treatment Plant

  14. Village BMP Projects Countryside Detention Naturalization Yellowstone Detention Naturalization Native Plant Buffers at Treatment Plant Management along Woods Creek Corridor

  15. Village BMP Projects Management at Arbor Hills-Stonegate Wetland Management at Arbor Hills-Oak leaf Wetland Ratt Creek Restoration

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