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Potential Best Management Practices (PBMP) Report

Within the Memorandum of Understanding, the Council lists certain practices, measures, equipment, and fixtures as representing the potential to become full Best Management Practices (BMPs). The current list of PBMPs is over 10 years old and may be supplemented with additional candidates. The Council is currently engaged in a process of study and evaluation of new candidates for the PBMP list.

The YEAR ONE report from this study process addresses four of those candidates:
1) Residential and small commercial weather-based irrigation controllers
2) Pre-rinse spray valves for the food service industry
3) Steam sterilizer retrofits
4) X-ray film processor recycling units
PBMP Report- Year One (PDF) 

The YEAR TWO report from this study process addresses four additional candidates for PBMP status:
1) On-Premise Laundries
2) High-Efficiency Plumbing Fixtures - Toilets and Urinals
3) Submetering of Multi-Family Residential Properties
4) Commercial-Industrial Cooling Water Efficiency

Download the entire report OR individual chapters:
- PBMP Report- Full Year Two Report (PDF - 4.46 MB)
PBMP Report- On-Premise Laundries (PDF)
PBMP Report- High-Efficiency Plumbing Fixtures (PDF)
- PBMP Report- Submetering (PDF)
PBMP Report- Commercial-Industrial Cooling (PDF) 

The YEAR THREE report from this study process addresses four additional candidates for PBMP status:
1) Residential Dishwashers
2) Vehicle Wash Systems
3) Synthetic Turf
4) Residential Hot Water Distribution

Download the entire report OR individual chapters:
- PBMP Report- Full Year Three Report (PDF- 380 KB)
- PBMP Report- Residential Dishwashers (PDF)
PBMP Report- Vehicle Wash Systems (PDF)
- PBMP Report- Synthetic Turf (PDF)
PBMP Report- Residential Hot Water Distribution (PDF)

The YEAR 3.5 Report (Completed in 2008) addresses Commercial Ice-Makers:
PBMP Report - Commercial Ice-Makers (PDF)