
As Industrial, Urban and Agricultural development increase,
society is left with more impervious roads, parking lots, airports,
factories, municipal area buildings, open strip mines and bare farm
fields all sloping toward outlet streams that are becoming more polluted
because the land development process has stripped away nature’s “Soil-Plant” filter
system.
The three Stormwater Best Management Practice (BMP) methods
most used are Infiltration, Detention and Vegetative or combinations
of these.
CPP pipe systems fit a BMP Stormwater Quality Improvement design
because its inert, Non-Corrosive feature assures engineers that additional
detention basins will not have to be built to treat chemicals or trace
metals that can leach from corroding pipe walls made from base raw
materials other than HDPE.
Additional information on BMP can be found in the
EPA’s
National Menu of Best Management Practices for Stormwater Phase II
by clicking here:
http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/stormwater/menuofbmps/index.cfm