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  Urban Waters Voices: Darryl Haddock EPA has released Urban Waters Voices, a series of 12 video interviews featuring locally led efforts to restore urban waters in communities across the United States. These videos feature local efforts and strategies to … Continue reading →

A current trend in funding urban stormwater programs relies on the issuance of stormwater utilities (i.e., fees) based on some measure of impervious surface (e.g., actual, estimated, average), and local programs vary greatly, dependent upon state law, municipal ordinances, and … Continue reading →

American Rivers and Green For All have just released two new reports on green infrastructure O&M, the links to which are found below.   Staying Green: Strategies to Improve Operations and Maintenance of Green Infrastructure in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed … Continue reading →

Around 150 participants met in Albuquerque February 28-March 2 to hear both national and local speakers address a broad range of topics related to communicating across the disciplines of water conservation, stormwater management and xeric landscaping.  An expo followed March … Continue reading →

American Rivers has just released a guide to permitting approaches that encourage or require “low impact development” or “green infrastructure.” The guide combines model permit language with excerpts from comment letters that have helped to drive permit evolution, and is intended to … Continue reading →

On Jan. 10, WEF launched a new website dedicated entirely to stormwater news. The Stormwater Report site highlights advanced practices, cutting-edge research, policy updates, and current events pertaining to stormwater. You also will be able to find nearly 2 years of stormwater news and … Continue reading →

The Center for Watershed Protection and the Chesapeake Stormwater Network have developed a three part instructional video series on Low Impact Development construction, installation and maintenance specifically for the Landscape Industry. The videos can be viewed and downloaded here. Maintenance … Continue reading →

EPA has just released a fact sheet series on the benefits of Low Impact Development (LID) and addressing obstacles to wider adoption of LID. They are available at http://water.epa.gov/polwaste/green/bbfs.cfm This seven-part series of fact sheets is primarily intended for state … Continue reading →

Building on our 2011 Strategic Agenda, EPA’s Green Infrastructure Program is pleased to unveil our new website and to announce the availability of technical assistance to 10-20 partner communities. Our new website repackages and expands upon our previous website to … Continue reading →

Green for All, in collaboration with the Economic Policy Institute and American Rivers, has published a report analyzing the job-creation potential of a major investment in green infrastructure practices to reduce pollutant discharges to water bodies in the US.  You … Continue reading →