Best Management Practice (BMP) Implementation & Planning Randy Vogel (AES Ecologist/IL Branch Manager)

Nature is the Best BMP During presettlement times nature was the best BMP. Nature’s natural “Treatment Train” processes improved water quality, reducing flooding, and provided open space for diverse fauna and flora Public Land Survey Map of Algonquin Area

Nature’s Stormwater Treatment Train

How do BMPs Address Watershed Issues? Today, our landscape is highly altered requiring our innovative BMP approaches to mimic nature’s treatment train process and address watershed issues. General Watershed Issues 1)Improve Water Quality 2)Reduce Flooding 3)Preserve and Enhance Open Space for Natural & Designated Infiltration

What types of BMPs Best Address Watershed Goals? Detention Basin Retrofits Rain Gardens Streambank Restoration Wetland Restoration Native Plant Buffers Along Streams and Open Space Greenways Protection and Enhancement

Precipitation Naturalized Detention Basin Bio-Swale Rain Garden Buffers Treatment Wetland The Urban Stormwater Treatment Train

Benefits: First Stage of filtering and flood protection Deep rooted native plantings enhance infiltration Rain Gardens

Benefits: Collects water from hard surfaces such as roads and driveways Filters and moves water to ponds and treatment wetlands Bio-Swales

Benefits: Deep rooted grasses and forbs absorb and infiltrate water Wildlife habitat Algonquin Water Treatment Plant Buffer Buffers

Benefits: Provide breakdown of nutrients and pollutants in the water Control flooding Creates habitat Award winning Arquilla Detention Basin Naturalization in Algonquin Naturalized Detention Basins

Benefits: Provide additional breakdown of nutrients and pollutants in the water Control flooding Creates habitat Treatment Wetlands

Existing Open Space in Algonquin Kingsbrook Crossing

Village BMP Projects Arquilla Detention Water Treatment Plant

Village BMP Projects Countryside Detention NaturalizationYellowstone Detention Naturalization Management along Woods Creek Corridor Native Plant Buffers at Treatment Plant

Village BMP Projects Management at Arbor Hills-Stonegate WetlandManagement at Arbor Hills-Oak leaf Wetland Ratt Creek Restoration