Stormwater Management: Websites

Educational programs for teachers includes stormwater management.

Philadelphia Combined Sewer Overflow Long Term Plan Update. See especially sections on Low Impact Development and Public Education.

StormwaterPA is your go-to resource for the most current information and effective, proven techniques in stormwater management.

The mission of the VUSP is to advance the evolving field of sustainable stormwater management and to foster the development of public and private partnerships through research on innovative stormwater Best Management Practices, directed studies, technology transfer and education.

The E.P.A. asked ASLA to collect case studies on projects that successfully and sustainably manage stormwater. More than 300 ASLA members responded with 479 case studies from 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada. Not only do these projects showcase landscape architecture, but they also demonstrate to policymakers the value of creating green infrastructure policies and investing in these approaches.

List produced by the Environmental Protection Agency is divided into seven sections—general stormwater information, public education and outreach, illicit discharge detection and elimination, construction site runoff control, post-construction site runoff control, pollution prevention/good housekeeping, and funding sources.

A project of the Center for Neighborhood Technology, site has a Stormwater Management Calculator, a tool for quickly comparing the performance, costs, and benefits of Green Infrastructure, or Low Impact Development (LID), to conventional stormwater practices. Learn what green infrastructure is and does. Understand the costs and benefits of using green infrastructure to mitigate the need for different types of built water infrastructure, such as sewers and detention basins.

The Low Impact Development Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of Low Impact Development technology. Low Impact Development is a new, comprehensive land planning and engineering design approach with a goal of maintaining and enhancing the pre-development hydrologic regime of urban and developing watersheds.

Includes link to the Stormwater Management Guidance Manual.

The Low Impact Development principles outlined in this manual were developed to address runoff issues associated with new residential, commercial, and industrial suburban development.

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Describes and illustrates a number of low impact development (LID) strategies, including rain gardens, cisterns, high density pastic grid, high efficiency irrigation, permeable concrete and pavers, runnels (deparessions to divert stormwater); trenches, and more.

This collaborative effort between the Urban Forestry and Urban Horticulture programs at Virginia Tech, the Urban Horticulture Institute at Cornell University, and the Department of Land and Water Resources at the University of California at Davis demonstrates a system for capturing and retaining stormwater under pavement in structural soil: a specialized soil mix that supports pavement and supports extensive tree root growth. Demonstration sites in Virginia, New York and California.