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Stormwater
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Urban Forestry Manual The Center will
develop a manual on practical techniques for using trees to sustain and
restore urban watersheds. The 100 to 150-page manual will illustrate exactly
how to conserve or create forests in specific areas of the urban landscape
such as new subdivisions, rights-of- way, parking lots, city centers,
stormwater practices, parks, schools, older neighborhoods, and stream/shorelines.
Completed: May 2004 Staff Contact: K. Cappiella |
Watershed Restoration Manual The Center
will produce a practical and useful manual on how to restore urban watersheds
geared towards practitioners. The 300 to 400-page manual will present
an integrated framework for urban watershed restoration, outline effective
techniques for assessing urban watersheds, and provide a comprehensive
review of watershed restoration techniques. The manual will be profusely
illustrated, contain extensive case studies and applications, and include
easy-to-use templates that agencies or organizations can directly use. Completed by: May 2004 Staff Contact: T. Schueler |
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New York BMP Manual In 2001, the Center
worked with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
(DEC) to produce the New York State Stormwater Management Design Manual
(the Manual). The Manual will be a key tool for DEC in implementing NPDES
Phase II stormwater regulations statewide. As part of this project, the
Center is training DEC regional staff on the content and application of
the manual in order to implement it statewide. In addition, the Center
will assist the DEC to update their 1992 publication entitled “Reducing
the Impacts of Stormwater Runoff from New Development,” which outlined
the impacts associated with urban and suburban development, and strategies
to reduce them. The update will incorporate new research on stormwater
impacts, as well advances in the stormwater field that have occurred over
the last 10 years. View
the completed manual here Completed: TBD Staff Contact: T. Brown |
Builders for the
Bay In partnership with the National Association of Homebuilders
and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, the Builders for the Bay is designed
to bring together builders, environmental groups, local governments, and
other stakeholders to begin the local roundtable process in communities
around the Chesapeake Bay area. This project requires training the staff
of the Alliance for Chesapeake Bay and selecting communities in which
to conduct local roundtables throughout the Chesapeake Bay region. In
2003, the Center plans to continue working on Harford County's roundtable.
Potential BFB roundtables for 2003 include Paxton Township, PA; Prince
William County, VA; Anne Arundel County, MD; Worcester County, MD and
James City County, VA. The Center also anticipates aftercare projects
for Cecil and Frederick County, MD. Completed by: TBD Staff Contact: H. Kwon |
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Vermont Stormwater Management Handbook
The Center worked directly with the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources
to develop a statewide stormwater management design manual as part of
Vermont's implementation of a state stormwater program. View
a draft of the completed manual here Completed: July 2001 Staff Contact: T. Brown |
Stormwater Maintenance Manual In this
project, the Center is developing a set of web-based tools to help communities
develop a state-of the art maintenance program. Stormwater practitioners
will be able to download readily usable maintenance forms, updated maintenance
cost data, ordinances, and other key elements of a good program. Completed by: TBD Staff Contact: T. Schueler |
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Virginia BMP Model The Center worked
to quantify the economic and environmental benefits of stormwater management
and other land development regulations for localities in the State of
Virginia. As part of this project, the Center also produced a model stormwater
ordinance that was adopted by local Virginia governments. Completed: July 2001 Staff Contact: T. Brown |
Charles River Stormwater Program Assessment,
MA The Center developed specific stormwater program recommendations
for nine Lower Charles River municipalities as part of the Clean Charles
2005 Initiative. This was a follow-up project to a grant completed by
the Center in 1999. Completed: April 2001 Staff Contact: J. Zielinski |
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Boston Stormwater Retrofit Design, MA
In 1999, the Center completed a retrofit inventory in portions of the
Charles River Basin in Massachusetts as part of an effort to clean up
this highly visible urban river. This project involved the design of several
demonstration stormwater retrofit sites for local implementation in 2001.
Completed: December 2000 Staff Contact: T. Brown |
DC BMP Manual The Center prepared a stormwater manual for the
District of Columbia to deal with the difficult problem of providing effective
stormwater treatment in a highly urbanized area with little or no space
to locate traditional stormwater practices. Completed: May 2000 Staff Contact: J. Zielinski |
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Benefits of Stormwater Management on Land Value,
VA The Center conducted surveys in Virginia to document the
positive impact of stormwater management on adjacent land values. Completed: December 2000 Staff Contact: T. Brown |
Stormwater Managers Resource Center
To help thousands of smaller communities across the nation comply with
new EPA stormwater regulations, the Center developed a massive independent
website called the Stormwater Managers Resource Center (SMRC), at www.stormwatercenter.net.
The free site contains thousands of pages of stormwater planning, design
and research information that the Center has acquired or developed over
the years. We added a highly popular "model ordinances" section to our
website that contains annotated and easily downloadable ordinances for
protecting local watersheds. Completed: January 2001 Staff Contact: H. Kwon |
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Guidance on Multiple BMPs To determine
the extent to which one stormwater practice increases the total pollutant
removal at a development site in Chesterfield County, the Center analyzed
past monitoring data and ran sediment models. Completed: June 2000 Staff Contact: T. Brown |
Model Local Stormwater Ordinance for Virginia
The Center developed a model stormwater ordinance to be adopted
by local governments in Virginia. Completed: December 2000 Staff Contact: T. Brown |