The Role of Pollution Prevention in Stormwater Management

Around the nation, there is growing interest in the development and use of environmentally sensitive construction materials as a low-cost component to stormwater management It is thought that the more appropriate selection of materials that are exposed to the environment should result in significant reductions of many toxicants in stormwater. Unfortunately, there is little data for specific altemative building materials, although much information exists targeting selected sources, especially the role of roof runoff as a significant source of zinc and other metals.