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Best Management Practices & Products for Controlling Highway Runoff Study

The New York State Department of Transportation is initiating a 12 month field and laboratory study to evaluate the performance, constructability and maintenance issues associated with stormwater Best Management Practices. A Request For Proposals was issued in October, 1999 asking interested parties to submit information on any practice or product that may effectively control non-point source pollution from highway runoff. A selection of these practices or products will then be tested by NYSDOT research staff or through universities in NYS who participate in the Transportation Infrastructure Research Consortium (TIRC). NYSDOT will consider the future use of those practices and products that prove to provide effective pollution control.

Jute mesh, mulch and strawbales used on an exposed slope for erosion and sediment runoff control. A vortechnics unit being installed along a highway as a water quality treatment option.

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