Best Management Practices for Water Quality While Harvesting Forest Products

Best Management Practices (BMPs) for water quality are minimum standards to be followed to ensure water quality. CT DEEP provides a booklet and a smartphone app that assist certified forest practitioners, private landowners, and municipal officials in utilizing BMPs when harvesting forest products. 

Smartphone App

This easy-to-use app helps professionals determine recommended BMPs and estimate the costs of BMP projects. It includes helpful tools, such as a soil type map and a clinometer, to determine site-specific guidelines based on slope. The app can be found by searching “CT BMP” in your phone’s app store. The app is currently available for iPhone and Android platforms.

This app was made possible through a combination of funds including a U.S.D.A. Forest Service Landscape Scale Restoration Grant and Supplemental Environmental Project Funds collected from commercial forest practice enforcement actions.

Publication

  
Best Management Practices for Water Quality While Harvesting Forest Products Booklet: 2012

For a printed version of this publication, or if you have any questions, please contact Nick Zito, Forest Practices Act Forester, at Nicholas.Zito@ct.gov. 

Content last updated in April 2025.