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A Water Quality Resource for the San Diego Region

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Best Management Practices Toolbox

Residential users include all residential forms, including apartments, condominiums, town homes, mobile homes, and single family homes. Everyone is a resident wherever they call home.

Residential activities that have the potential to generate pollutants include any outdoor maintenance or cleaning activity.This includes: vehicle maintenance, repair and washing, landscaping, gardening, outdoor painting, pool maintenance, cleaning, irrigation activities, storage and use of cleaning chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, pet waste management, etc.

Appropriate Best Management Practices must be implemented to prevent pollutants from entering the storm drain system.Below you will find related activities for Residential:

Septic System Maintenance - Residential (1/- )

Irrigation System Testing - Residential (2/- )

Pet Waste Disposal - Residential (1/- )

Irrigation Practices/Management - Residential (2/- )

Landscape Maintenance - Residential (7/- )

Sewer System Maintenance - Residential (2/- )

Automotive Maintenance - Residential (5/- )

Fertilizer Application - Residential (2/- )

Pesticide Application - Residential (2/- )

Power Washing - Residential (5/- )

Vehicle Washing - Residential (2/- )

 

Properly Dispose of Animal/Pet Waste

Properly Drain Fluids from Automobiles - Residential

Properly Store, Use, and Dispose of Fertilizer - Residential

Properly Store, Use, and Dispose of Pesticides

Use Non-Toxic Products

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