Source Reduction and Control; Green Infrastructure

This chapter includes a review of source reduction and control measures for stormwater management. These measures which are a newer trend in stormwater management are intended to reduce the runoff production and/or control the runoff at its source, rather than collecting and conveying it by a drainage system into a detention or retention basin. Source control and reduction practices, are also referred to as green infrastructure, a concept that originated in the White House in 1993, during the Administration of then-President Clinton. Subsequently, the EPA extended the concept to the management of stormwater runoff through waterways, wetlands, or drainage courses to mimic nature in controlling stormwater, containing it at its source.