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Since 1992, the Center for Watershed Protection has provided cutting-edge practical training manuals and guidebooks for watershed practitioners. The Center has combined these materials with slideshow presentations and exercises to train over one thousand watershed professionals throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Center for the first time is offering a few of our best multimedia teaching modules ready for the university instructor’s lecture or lab coursework in the following topics: For a limited time, we are offering a FREE set of instructor materials with a minimum order of twelve course texts. While the specialty of these topics makes our materials most appropriate for the upper-class, graduate, or continuing professional education course, the manner in which this material is presented is clear, easy to understand, and very accessible for such technical information. These modules are appropriate for courses in environmental science, urban planning, environmental engineering and others: |
What people are saying about the Center publications and instruction: “We have made tremendous use of your publications, web site, workshops, etc. Thanks for staying on the cutting edge and sharing with us.” – Atlanta Watershed Group Review of Better Site Design, Rapid Watershed Planning, and Nutrient Loading: “These three volumes are unique. One would have to pore through a number of civil engineering books to find similar information, and in most cases the data that planners need would be missing.” - American Planning Association Journal "I learned so much from the CWP staff and the other institute participants.... The organization of the entire institute is fabulous! The provided materials were very useful and well-organized for easy reference." - Watershed Restoration Institute participant
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Environmentally-Sensitive Development Module
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The land development process has a documented impact on the quality of our watersheds. One of the best ways to mitigate these impacts is to control the way that development sites are designed. Better site design is a process by which local governments can review their zoning codes and ordinances to minimize impervious cover and promote conservation of natural areas. This module outlines 22 model principles for land development that focus on streets, parking lots, lot design, conservation of natural areas, and integration of stormwater management in new developments. It also provides information for covering the process of consensus-building and roundtable organizing with regard to design principles. |
Contents (Instructor's Set Only):
Item Price: $65
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Bulk Core Text Purchase
Order at least 12 Better Site Design Handbooks ($35/ea.) and choose between a free Instructor’s set, or a 10% discount on the texts.
Please contact Jessica Brooks at jeb@cwp.org or 410-461-8323 to place this order.
Introduction to Watershed Impacts
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Ideal for a lecture-oriented class, this module examines some of the effects of land development on aquatic ecosystems with an emphasis on the direct relationship of impervious cover on stream health, in particular, stream hydrology, geomorphology, water quality, and habitat. The impacts discussed in the slideshow generally apply to smaller headwater streams, which are composed of first and second order streams. Since these small headwater streams comprise about 75% of all the river and stream mileage in the contiguous U.S., their proper management and protection is essential to the protection of our larger lakes, rivers, and estuaries. This module also contains the CD of our 800-page reference, The Practice of Watershed Protection, in order integrate case studies and special topics into your coursework. |
Contents (Instructor's Set Only):
Item Price: $80
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Bulk Main Text Purchase
Order at least 12 copies of Impacts ($20/ea.) and choose between a free Instructor’s set, or a 10% discount on the texts.
Please contact Jessica Brooks at jeb@cwp.org or 410-461-8323 to place this order.
Introduction to Watershed Restoration and Assessment
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An ideal lab component to your course, this module provides the practical application of watershed management through developing a needs and capabilities assessment, making rapid baseline assessments and identifying methods to repair streams and other areas of watershed restoration. Students will learn how to evaluate the restoration potential of a watershed. This session presents an overview of two rapid urban watershed assessments: the Unified Stream Assessment (USA) and the Unified Subwatershed and Site Reconnaissance (USSR). The USA is a comprehensive stream walk protocol for evaluating the physical riparian and floodplain conditions in small urban watersheds. The USSR is a rapid comprehensive assessment that is performed over an entire subwatershed to evaluate areas outside the stream corridor for potential pollution sources and restoration opportunities that exist in upland areas. |
Contents (Instructor's Copy only):
Item Price: $120
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or
Bulk Core Text Purchase
or purchase at least 12 copies of Manuals 1, 10, 11 ($105) and choose between a free Instructor’s set, or a 10% discount on the texts.
Please contact Jessica Brooks at jeb@cwp.org or 410-461-8323 to place this order.
If you would like to order a text for your course that is not part of the modules listed above, please proceed to our textbook evaluation policy page, or contact our Publications Manager Jessica Brooks at 410-461-8323/jeb@center.org.
Additional Information on the module materials:
Environmentally-Sensitive Development Module - Content Description back to top
Better Site Design: A Handbook for Changing Development Rules in Your Community
This handbook will equip those interested in promoting smarter, more ecologically sound development with 22 guidelines for better developments and provides detailed rationale for each principle. Using clear language and explicit schematics, the Better Site Design handbook defines the specific elements that make up an environmentally friendly site design and provides students and professionals with some basic engineering principles, actual vs. perceived barriers to implementing better site designs, current practices in local communities, details the economic and environmental benefits of better site designs, and presents case studies from across the country. The handbook also includes a sample Codes & Ordinances Worksheet.
Local Site Planning Roundable CD
Updated in 2004, the CD contains contains slideshow presentations (Better Site Design, Roundtable Process) and everything you need to guide students through a site planning exercise, along with all electronic copies of the agendas, invitation letters, and other correspondence you will need to demonstrate how to conduct the roundtable process. The slideshows are fully editable and come with speaker’s notes in Microsoft PowerPoint 2000.
Example Consensus Document (James City County, VA or similar)
This publication is the product of a year-long better site design local roundtable process facilitated by the Center in James City County, Virginia. The document documents the roundtable process and contains the recommendations presented by the local roundtable members to the James City County Commissioners in November 2004.
Impacts of Impervious Cover Module - Content Description back to top
Impacts of Impervious Cover on Aquatic Systems
This manual provides comprehensive examinations of more than 225 multi-disciplinary research studies documenting the impact of urbanization and the associated impervious cover on aquatic systems. Written in a clear, accessible style for any 300 level course on up, Impacts is the Center’s most extensive exploration of imperviousness to date, and reviews the available scientific data on the myriad of ways urbanization influences hydrologic, physical, water quality, and biological indicators of aquatic health.
The Practice of Watershed Protection: Techniques for Protecting and Restoring Urban Watersheds (PWP CD)
Drawn from past issues of the Center’s scientific journal, Watershed Protection Techniques, and a wealth of other Center papers and reports, this 800-page reference represents a broad interdisciplinary approach to restoring and maintaining watershed health. Indexed for easy reference, this comprehensive volume boasts 150 articles on all aspects of watershed protection and is perfect for specialized topics for your upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and continuing professional coursework.
Recommended Articles: (these links forward you to a list of articles in the PWP CD where you can preview the first page of each article)
1: “The Importance of Imperviousness”
18: “Effects of Urbanization on Small Streams in the Puget Sound Ecoregion”
25: “Housing Density and Urban Land Use As Stream Quality Indicators”
33: “Impact of Stormwater on Puget Sound Wetlands”
40: “Urbanization, Stream Buffers and Stewardship in Maryland”
43: “Impact of Riparian Forest Cover on Mid-Atlantic Stream Ecosystems”
Impacts of Urbanization Slideshow CD
This presentation outlines the hydrologic, morphologic and biologic impacts to streams that result from the increased impervious cover associated with urbanization and includes both a pop-up dictionary and an interactive self-test. Comes complete with extensive speaker's notes and can be run as-is, or cut-and-paste slides to tailor the information to individual needs. In PowerPoint 2000.
Introduction to Watershed Restoration and Assessment Module - Content Description back to top
Urban Subwatershed Restoration Manual Series
Provide students with practical, comprehensive information on watershed restoration techniques with three key Manuals from the Urban Subwatershed Restoration Manual series. These USRM manuals introduce an integrated framework for urban watershed restoration, outline effective techniques for assessing urban watersheds, and provide a comprehensive review of watershed restoration techniques. All manuals are filled throughout with full-color photos, schematics, field sheets, and profile sheets.
Manual #1: An Integrated Framework to Restore Small Urban Watersheds
The first manual introduces the basic concepts and techniques of urban watershed restoration, and sets forth the overall framework used to evaluate subwatershed restoration potential. The manual emphasizes how past subwatershed alterations must be understood in order to set realistic expectations for future restoration, and presents a simple subwatershed classification system to define expected stream impacts and restoration potential. Next, seven broad groups of restoration practices are described. The manual concludes by presenting a condensed summary of a planning approach to craft effective subwatershed restoration plans.Manual #10: Unified Stream Assessment: A User’s Manual
The Unified Stream Assessment (USA) is a rapid technique to locate and evaluate problems and restoration opportunities within the urban stream corridor. This user’s guide describes how to perform the USA, and interpret the data collected to determine the stream corridor restoration potential for your subwatershed.Manual #11: Unified Subwatershed and Site Reconnaissance: A User’s Manual
This manual examines pollution sources and restoration potential within upland areas of urban subwatersheds. The manual provides detailed guidance on how to perform each of its four assessment components — the Neighborhood Source Assessment (NSA), Hotspot Source Investigation (HSI), Pervious Area Assessment (PAA) and the analysis of Streets and Storm Drains (SSD). Together, these rapid surveys help identify upland restoration projects and source control to consider when devising subwatershed restoration plans.
Introduction to Watershed Restoration CD:
This CD includes slideshow presentations for USA and the USSR methods.
Updated in 2005, these PowerPoint 2000 presentations provide regular references to the manuals along with additional speaker's notes on some slides and can can be run as-is, or cut-and-paste slides to tailor the information to individual needs.
If you have questions, please contact our Publications Manager Jessica Brooks at jeb@cwp.org
8390 Main Street, 2nd Floor
Ellicott City, MD 21043
Phone: 410-461-8323
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