Abstract
Best management practices (BMPs) are designs and practices used to mitigate the environmental impacts of nonpoint source pollution, a leading cause of receiving water quality degradation in the United States. Proper selection and design of a BMP should consider its performance throughout its anticipated life. The magnitude of one particular life cycle variable, representing the likelihood of installation of a required storm water detention facility, was analyzed based on data from 716 privately developed sites in a county in South Carolina. This yielded an overall 86% probability for storm water detention facility construction. This variable was found to be approximately 79 and 88% for areas of disturbances of less than 0.4 ha and greater than 0.4 ha, respectively. Such compliance rates are useful information in conducting BMP life cycle analyses as well as for improving nonpoint source pollution estimates for postconstruction watershed conditions.
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