6.4.9 Vegetated Filter strip
6.4.9 Vegetated Filter strip
The EPA defines a Vegetated Filter Strip as a “permanent, maintained strip of planted or indigenous vegetation located between nonpoint sources of pollution and receiving water bodies for the purposre of removing or mitigating the effects of nonpoint source pollutants such as nutrients, pesticides, sediments, and suspended solids.”
Structural BMPs
- Volume/Peak Rate Reduction by Infiltration BMPs
- 6.4.1 Pervious pavement with infiltration bed
- 6.4.2 Infiltration Basin
- 6.4.3 Subsurface Infiltration bed
- 6.4.4 Infiltration trench
- 6.4.5 Rain Garden/bioretention
- 6.4.6 Dry well/seepage pit
- 6.4.7 Constructed filter
- 6.4.8 Vegetated swale
- 6.4.9 Vegetated Filter strip
- 6.4.10 Infiltration berm & retentive grading
- Volume Peak Rate Reduction BMPs
- Runoff Quality/Peak Rate BMPs
- Restoration BMPs
- Other BMPs and related Structural Measures