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MSD Stormwater Best Management Practices

The MSD Storm Water Best Management Guide is a collaborative project between the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, Missouri Department of Conservation, Missouri Botanical Garden, Shaw Nature Reserve, and Grow Native!

Landscape guide for stormwater best management practice design (pdf)

You will find the following in this guide:

Required BMP Construction Specifications
Required BMP Plant Lists
Planting Specifications
Soil, Sand, and Gravel Specifications
Pipe Specifications

Required plants for MSD stormwater best management practices:

Main plant list (xls)
Bioretention
- For formal landscapes (pdf)
- For formal landscapes (xls)
- For informal landscapes (pdf)
Dry Swale (pdf)
Sand Filter (pdf)
Wet Pond (pdf)
Wetland (pdf)

Sample designs for MSD stormwater best management practices:

Bioretention (pdf)
Dry Swale (pdf)
Sand Filter (pdf)
Wet Pond (pdf)

Greener Storm Water Solutions

Part One: An Introduction to the New MSD Requirements

This how-to workshop introduced new and innovative methods that are required for the retention and treatment of storm water.

John Grimm - Greener Stormwater Solutions an MSD overview (pdf)

An overview of MSD regulations that meet EPA Phase II storm Water Requirements, including the MSD plan review and permit process, best management practice (BMP) options, BMP maintenance and MSD enforcement.

– John Grimm, MSD

Jay Hoskins - Mimicking Mother Nature: Stormwater Quality and BMPs (pdf)

A discussion of the basics of site hydrology, how site development adversely impacts watershed and the planning, engineering and construction practices that can be used to minimize these adverse impacts.
–Jay Hoskins, MSD

Mark Meyer - Bio Retention Design (pdf)

A review of the general design approach needed to implement new storm water best management practices. It will include preserving existing resources and restoring or imitating natural function.
–Mark Meyer, Intuition & Logic

Scott Woodbury - Required plants for BMPs (pdf)

An introduction to the plants that are required for use by MSD for storm water best management practices and detailed information on flood tolerance, plant height and spacing for these plants.
–Scott Woodbury, Shaw Nature Reserve

Part Two:

Details of MSD’s Newly Required “Green” Structural BMP’s

This how-to workshop will provide in-depth details about the new MSD regulations required for the retention and treatment of storm water.

John Grimm - Greener Stormwater Solutions (pdf)

What is and isn’t working with storm-water structures in St. Louis. John will also discuss a detention basin redesign.

– John Grimm, MSD

Jay Hoskins - Mimicking Mother Nature: Stormwater Quality and BMPs (pdf)

What direction MSD wants to go in with "green" structural BMPs. In-depth description of how they work and how the landscape guide relates to each.
–Jay Hoskins, MSD

Mark Meyer - Bio Retention Design (pdf)

Bioretention and wetland Pond BMP’s: a detailed explanation of how they function.
–Mark Meyer, Intuition & Logic

Scott Woodbury - Required plants for BMPs (pdf)

How to Meet the Criteria: A detailed look at the plants recommended by MSD for storm water best management practices. Scott will also cover the MSD specification for soil.
–Scott Woodbury, Shaw Nature Reserve