| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Best Management Practice | Environment | Methods that have been determined to be the most effective, practical means of preventing or reducing pollution from non-point sources. (BMP). (references) | |
| Best management practice (BMP) | Environment | 1: An engineered structure or management activity, or combination of these, that eliminates or reduces an adverse environmental effect of a pollutant. (references) | |
| 2: A practice used to reduce impacts from a particular land use. (references) | |||
| Best management practice (BMP) | Mining | A practice, or a combination of practices, that is determined to be the most effective and practical means of preventing or reducing the amount of pollution generated by nonpoint sources to a level compatible with water quality goals. (references) | |
| Best management practice (BMP) | Physics | 1: A practice that--while not required by a regulation, order, rule, or other requirement--has been defined by industry or adopted by LLNL as a better-than-normal way an operation or business would be performed or managed. (references) | |
| 2: For facilities that manufacture, use, store, or discharge toxic or hazardous pollutants as defined by the 1977 Clean Water Act, a required program to control the potential spill or release of those materials to surface waters. (references) | |||
| Best management practice (BMP) | Transportation | Technique that various parties (e.g., the construction industry) use to provide protection from adverse impacts to the environment. The Board may designate these techniques as mitigation measures. (references) | |
| Best management practice (BMP) | Water | An agricultural practice that has been determined to be an effective, practical means of preventing or reducing nonpoint-source pollution. (references) | |
| Stormwater best management practice | Environment | A structural or non structural technique designed to temporarily store or treat stormwater runoff in order to mitigate flooding, reduce pollution, and provide other amenities. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
