Managing Stormwater in Your Community: A Guide for Building an Effective Post-Construction Program (Center for Watershed Protection, 2008). This guide provides stormwater professionals with practical guidance, insights, and tools to build effective programs. The guide is accompanied by several downloadable "tools." The tools are designed to be used and modified by local stormwater managers to help with program implementation and can be downloaded individually below.

Tool 1: Stormwater Program Self-Assessment. The desired outcome for conducting this self-assessment is to generate short-term and long-term action items to build a more effective program.

Tool 2: Program & Budget Planning Tool. The program & budget planning tool is a spreadsheet tool that is meant to assist stormwater managers with program planning, goal setting, and phasing.

Tool 2: Program Spreadsheet. The program & budget planning tool is a spreadsheet tool that is meant to assist stormwater managers with program planning, goal setting, and phasing.

Tool 3: Post-Construction Stormwater Model Ordinance. Provides a MENU of code language for local, regional, and/or state stormwater programs to use to craft or update their ordinances. The ordinance is written so that individual sections can be lifted out and modified to suit individual program needs.

Tool 4: Code and Ordinance Worksheet. The Code and Ordinance Worksheet allows an in-depth review of the standards, ordinances, and codes (i.e., the development rules) that shape how development occurs in your community.

Tool 5: Stormwater Manual Builder. This tool is intended to provide local stormwater managers with references to most useful existing stormwater guidance manuals and quick links to the most detailed and up-to-date information on particular post-construction stormwater management topics.

Tool 5: Stormwater Manual Builder (part 2). This tool is intended to provide local stormwater managers with references to most useful existing stormwater guidance manuals and quick links to the most detailed and up-to-date information on particular post-construction stormwater management topics.

Tool 6: Plan Review, BMP Construction, and Maintenance Checklists. The checklists in this tool are designed to be used by stormwater program managers, design consultants, plan reviewers, inspectors, and parties responsible for maintenance.

Tool 6: Plan Review, BMP Construction, and Maintenance Checklists

Tool 6: Plan Review, BMP Construction, and Maintenance Checklists

Tool 6: Plan Review, BMP Construction, and Maintenance Checklists

Tool 7: Performance Bond Tool. This tool is intended to provide local stormwater managers with basic information regarding performance bonds. It introduces to performance bonds, provides sample performance bond forms, sample performance bond instructions and a bond estimator spreadsheet.

Tool 7: Performance Bond Tool - estimator

Tool 8: BMP Performance Verification Checklist. Tool 8 is a downloadable checklist that will help local program authorities provide a consistent set of questions for applicants proposing to use manufactured and proprietary BMPs. The goal of this tool is to provide more of a level playing field so that all applicants provide the same type of BMP performance information and data as a basis for approving particular devices. The tool does not promote or "pre-approve" any particular device, but is applicable for the review of all proprietary BMPs. The checklist is accompanied by an explanation and instructions for using the checklist, technical appendices that elucidate the complex world of BMP performance, and a matrix that compares existing BMP verification protocols, such as TARP, TAPE, and NJCAT.

Tool 8: BMP Performance Verification Checklist

Tool 8: BMP Performance Verification Checklist: matrix

Tool 8: BMP Performance Verification Checklist: appendices