- Some EPA Reports on Stormwater
GOLF COURSE MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES09-19-2002
Guidelines for designing and maintaining golf courses in Baltimore County, MD.
http://www.epa.gov/nps/ordinance/documents/E4-GolfCourse.pdf (PDF)
- Some really good NRDC booklets:
Out of the Gutter
Reducing Polluted Runoff in the District of Columbia
Every time it rains, Washington, D.C. — like most major cities — is plagued by stormwater runoff, which has gravely contaminated the city’s three major rivers (the Potomac, the Anacostia, and Rock Creek). To clean up the pollution, the city’s Water and Sewer Authority is relying on conventional stormwater management practices, which are costly and outdated. In this July 2002 report, NRDC recommends instead that WASA adopt an approach called low-impact development, which would use “green” roofs, strategically placed beds of native plants, rain barrels, and other measures to soak up rain and prevent it from washing directly into waterways. NRDC is also urging the local government and WASA to restructure the city’s flat stormwater fee, protect environmentally sensitive lands, restore the urban forest, and encourage water conservation and water reuse techniques.
Stormwater Strategies
Community Responses to Runoff Pollution
This May 1999 report from the Natural Resources Defense Council documents some of the most effective strategies being employed by communities around the country to control urban runoff pollution, which is among the top sources of water contamination in the country today. The collection of 100 case studies compiled and evaluated here is intended to serve as a guide for local decisionmakers, municipal officials, and environmental activists; it is also a resource for citizens concerned about the quality of their local environment. Added in October 2001 is a new chapter on low-impact development, which has emerged as a simple, effective and economical stormwater strategy that also carries a broader aesthetic appeal.
- Interesting Books
| Liquid Assets: A History of New York City’s Water System (Paperback) by Diane Galusha (Author) “WHEN a British naval force led by Col. Richard Nicolls sailed into the harbor of the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam in September of 1664,…” |
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| Water: A Natural History (Paperback) by Alice Outwater (Author) “This story about American water begins, surprisingly, back in Europe during the Middle Ages, when peasants living in cramped quarters close to their animals were…” |
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| The RIVERKEEPERS: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right (Paperback) by John Cronin (Author), Robert Kennedy (Author), Al Gore (Introduction) “In the field, Hastings-on-Hudson, March 1994: The thick odor of rot and decay filled our nostrils as we entered the dim light of Building 15…” |
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| Silent Spring (Paperback) by Rachel Carson (Author), Edward O. Wilson (Afterword), Linda Lear (Introduction) “THERE WAS ONCE a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings… |
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