What is a stormwater Best Management Practice (BMP)?
BMP consists of various controls to help manage the excess runoff. Types of stormwater contrls include: • Wet Detention • Dry Detention • Bioretention • Constructed Wetlands • Scour Holes • Level Spreaders • Click here for more information about BMP • Stormwater Phase II webpage What about mosquitoes, snakes, and beavers? The BMP’s should drain within 72 hours. Constructed wetlands and wet detention should primarily stay wet and act as a natural system. There are many native predators of mosquitoes including: dragonflies, gambousia or mosquito fish, birds/waterfowl, and bats. Most snakes are harmless. There are only two in Wake Forest that are poisonous: cottonmouth and the copperhead. Snakes like to eat mice and other rodents that are more of a pest. Beavers love all of our trees and juveniles like to build dams in our creeks here in Wake Forest. They are mainly a nuisance but can cause flooding problems. They can be professionally trapped but are not taken to another pond or “special
