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Since its inception in 2005, the T-VSSI team has built and monitored five demonstration BMPs in the Pennypack Creek Watershed on land owned and protected by the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust, and six of the eight BMPs installed on the Villanova campus. Researchers monitor the BMPs, testing various water quality and quantity criteria, to assess the potential improvements the BMPs can provide to local watersheds. A major component of BMP research is to determine the benefits provided by retrofitting conventional detention basins to allow infiltration to occur. Researchers believe that basin retrofits, applied throughout a watershed, would significantly reduce the quantity of runoff delivered to streams, thereby reducing the adverse impacts of flooding, protect stream baseflows, and thus improve water quality. T-VSSI Stormwater BMP Locations The following map displays the locations of T-VSSI BMPs at Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust (PERT) and Villanova University.
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