Construction and Development Best Management Practices

Site Planning, Design, and Managment

  1. Conservation easement
  2. Conservation development
  3. Develop or protect a riparian buffer zone
  4. Follow watershed conservation plan
  5. Ordinances
  6. Riparian setbacks
  7. Site planning

Erosion Control and Construction Methods

  1. Brush or vegetation mats
  2. Brush layering
  3. Branch packing
  4. Check dams
  5. Coir fiber logs
  6. Culvert design
  7. Cuttings, transplants, and seeding
  8. Erosion control blanket and mulches
  9. Fascines, bundles, wattles
  10. Infiltration, filtration, retention, detention basins
  11. Live siltation
  12. Live slope grating
  13. Protection or revegetation of native species
  14. Protection of open stockpiles of soil and materials
  15. Sediment barriers (barriers, berms, fences, and wattles)
  16. Stream crossings

Site Reclamation

  1. Soil aeration
  2. Revegetation with native species
  3. Proper chemical disposal

Construction Bibliography

  • Wheeler et al. 2005. Impacts of new highways and subsequent landscape urbanization on stream habitat and biota. Reviews in Fisheries Science 13: 141-164.