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EPA-Sponsored ASCE BMP Database Software ReleasedThe District, along with Wright Water Engineers and URS Woodward Clyde, is a participant in an American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) project funded by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant. The project has developed the National Stormwater Best Management Practices (BMP) Database, Version 1.0. It is being distributed by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stormwater managers, researchers, regulators and consultants throughout the country. The user-friendly Microsoft AccessTM-based database serves two key purposes: 1) guides data collection and reporting efforts for those monitoring and tracking BMP performance, and 2) to provides access to BMP performance data in a standardized format for over 70 BMP studies conducted over the last fifteen years. The database software package, which is currently being distributed on CD-ROM free of charge, has two key components: data entry and data retrieval. Parties using the data entry portion of the database are encouraged to submit their data for inclusion in the national database, and some EPA grant funding is currently available for this purpose through ASCE. The data retrieval, or "search engine," portion of the software enables users to retrieve data on over 70 BMPs which have met criteria for inclusion in the database. The BMP data retrieval component of the database is available over the Internet at http://www.bmpdatabase.org/ For more information on the database or the overall project, see ASCE's web
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