Education For
Environmental Responsibility

Best Management Practices - Handbook & Information

• BMP Handbook (PDF files)

Contained in the BMP Handbook is information on farming practices such as sediment basins, PAM, enzyme treatments, tailwater return systems, vegetative ditches, irrigation scheduling and others. These documents are summaries of technical reports developed by the California Water Institute, Ducks Unlimited, California Department of Pesticide Regulation and others.

Warning; large PDF files below (1-12 mb). Broadband connection recommended.

• BMP Handbook Cover (12.8 MB)
• Introduction (0.5 MB)
• Monitoring Results
  • Orestibma Creek / Del Puerto Creek (1 MB)
• BMP Practices
  • Sediment Basins (1 MB)
  • Vegetated Ditches / Grassed Waterways (0.8 MB)
  • Polyacrylamide (PAM) (0.4 MB)
  • Irrigation Scheduling (0.7 MB)
  • Irrigation Tailwater Return Systems (0.7 MB)
  • Drip / Micro Sprinkler Irrigation Systems (0.5 MB)
• Resources
  • Resources (1.3 MB)



• Agricultural Practices Report (2 MB)
• Guidelines for the Selection of Appropriate Best Management Practices (630 KB)
• Constructed Wetlands Study (0.5 MB)
• Simazine/Princep - Water Quality Stewardship (3.1 MB)
• Managing Manure Applications (2.3 MB)
• A Landowner’s Guide to Best Management Practices (2.0 MB)
• A Landowner’s Guide to the Design of Constructed Wetlands (5.0 MB)
• Mitigation Assessment of Vegetated Drainage Ditches for Collecting Irrigation Runoff in California (Abstract Only)
• Vegetated Ditch Study - Mississippi Delta (PDF file)