"Wetland & Watershed" Article Series from the Center for Watershed Protection
 The Center for Watershed Protection has issued a series of six Wetland & Watershed articles:
- Direct and Indirect Impacts of Urbanization on Wetland Quality
- Using Local Watershed Plans to Protect Wetlands
- Adapting Watershed Tools to Protect Wetlands
- Model Ordinance for Local Wetland Protection
- Urban Wetland Restoration Techniques
- Local Tools for Protecting Vulnerable Wetlands and Aquatic Resources
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Best Local Land Use Practices
From Ohio.gov: In addition to supporting local decisions about the location of growth, the state will also supply guidance on best local land use practices for minimizing development impacts on water quality wherever the expansion of developed areas occurs, and for reducing impacts to water quality in redevelopment situations. This includes a set of model zoning ordinances and resolutions recommended for voluntary adoption by local communities, a set of guidance documents for a range of additional best practices, and training opportunities for local government elected officials and staff. Model ordinances are provided for storm water and aquatic area protection and meadow protection. Guidance documents have been prepared for Conservation Development, Compact Development, Source Water Protection, Agricultural Lands Protection, Tree and Woodland Protection, Scenic Protection, Historic Preservation, Steep Slopes Protection, Transfer of Development Rights (TDR), Brownfields Redevelopment, and Access Management. The training program, previously focused on the Lake Erie watershed, will be expanded statewide and is not limited to communities with Watershed Planning Partnerships.
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BMP's for Managing Crop Nutrients and Conservation Tillage to Improve Water Quality
Produced for the Conservation Technology Information Center A Review of BMPs for Managing Crop Nutrients and Conservation Tillage to Improve Water Quality The Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) is a national non-profit membership organization. CTIC promotes environmentally responsible and economically viable decision-making in agriculture. For information on other publications, survey of tillage practices, CTIC membership, etc., visit www.conservationinformation.org.
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BOB Site Wins Governor's Award
 A Building Outside the Box (BOB) site, Morgan Park Place, has won the Governor's Environmental Stewardship Award for Building Green. Morgan Park Place is a 72-unit, multi-family, mixed-use, urban infill project that meets high standards for water and energy efficiency and stormwater management while offering a wide range of living spaces in size and price. Click here to take a tour of the site's sustainable building features.
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ConserveMyLand.org
 This online Conservation Planning Tool is designed to provide web-based conservation assistance to help landowners on the urban fringe understand the importance of their land in preserving their local rural heritage, local water quality and water supplies, and wildlife habitat.
A cooperative effort being piloted in central Tennessee, this planning tool provides case studies of local landowners who are implementing land conservation practices and best management practices. It highlights farmland preservation strategies, provides online tutorials, fact sheets and an email link for requesting technical assistance.
The feed-back e-mail system monitored by the Southeast Watershed Forum staff will direct requests for assistance to the appropriate program partner; the Land Trust for Tennessee, Harpeth River Watershed Association, Williamson County Soil and Water Conservation District, NRCS staff, or the Extension office.
It is hoped that this user-friendly web-based tool will encourage farmland preservation on the urban fringe and encourage installation of best management practices to maintain and improve local water quality and quality of life. It is hoped that this pilot will be expanded regionally to serve other counties facing similar threats to their rural heritage.
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Delta Conservation Demonstration Center
 A working NRCS Conservation Security Program Demonstration Farm whose goal is to see all the surface water in the Delta become clean and clear and our natural resources in the Delta enhanced and protected for generations to come. http://www.dcdcfarm.org/
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Delta Farmers Advocating Resource Management
Delta Farmers Advocating Resource Management (Delta F.A.R.M.) began in 1998 through the combined efforts of producers, sponsors, and partner agencies, to assist farmers and landowners in the implementation of Best Management Practices (BMPs) in the Northwest Mississippi Delta region. The program aims to conserve water and reduce nonpoint source pollution from agriculture and to conserve, restore, and enhance the environment of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta. Delta F.A.R.M. provides its members with technical information on conservation practices and promotes the members’ current conservation efforts.
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EPA 319 Nonpoint Source Success Story
Batie Creek was listed on Virginia's 303(d) list of impaired waters in 1998. The creek was listed because of low dissolved oxygen levels, caused by inflows of anoxic leachate due to a lumber company's improper disposal of sawdust. The low dissolved oxygen levels negatively affected a population of endangered cave isopods (a type of crustacean) in Batie Creek's headwaters. With help from an array of partners, led by the section 319-funded Karst Program of the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation's Division of Natural Heritage, the company removed and reused most of the decomposing sawdust. Dissolved oxygen levels have rebounded, prompting the removal of Batie Creek from the impaired waters list in 2006. Click here to read the entire story.
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EPA Issues Guidance to Control Urban Runoff Pollution
EPA has released National Management Measures to Control Non-point Source Pollution from Urban Areas. The comprehensive 512-page guidance will help local governments and others protect water resources from polluted runoff that can result from everyday activities and urban development. The guidance will also help municipalities and other regulated entities implement Phase I and Phase II Stormwater Permit Programs. This publication includes voluntary guidance on 12 management measures designed to prevent and control runoff pollutants from urban and suburban lands. The management measures cover topics such as watershed assessment and protection; runoff from new and existing development, road networks, and construction sites; septic system impacts; pollution prevention; and inspection and maintenance of urban runoff management practices. The guidance is free and available online at http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/urbanmm/.
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EPA Publication: Using Smart Growth Techniques as Stormwater Best Management Practices
The goal of this document is to help communities that have adopted smart growth policies and plans recognize the water benefits of those smart growth techniques and suggest ways to integrate those policies into stormwater planning and compliance.
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Georgia Stormwater BMP Manual
Georgia Stormwater BMP manual - Wet detention basins, storm water wetlands, sand filters, bioretention areas, grassed swales, extended dry detention basins, filter strips, infiltration devices.
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Growth Readiness: Outcomes and Lessons Learned in the Southeast
Presentation given at the Southeast Watershed Forum's conference, Building Sustainable Communities for the 21st Century, held August 12-14, 2008 in Charleston, SC.
Growth Readiness: Outcomes and Lessons Learned in the Southeast
Patrick Beggs, North Carolina Cooperative Extension
Joe Krewer, Georgia Dept of Community Affairs
Liz Upchurch, Tennessee Valley Authority
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Gulfbase.org
 GulfBase is a database of resources about the Gulf of Mexico. The goal of this website is to regroup, synthesize, and make freely available Gulf of Mexico research information. Our vision is that GulfBase will help researchers, policy makers, and the general public work together to insure long-term sustainable use and conservation of the Gulf of Mexico.
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Low-Impact Development Manual
Presentation given at the Southeast Watershed Forum's conference, Building Sustainable Communities for the 21st Century, held August 12-14, 2008 in Charleston, SC.
Low-Impact Development Manual - Christy Perrin, NC State University
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Modeling the Effectiveness of “Green BMPs” in Stormwater Quantity and Quality - Jennifer Gulick
Southeast and Tennessee Watershed Roundtable Presentation, 2004
The Davey Resource Group and the Sanitation District No. 1 of Northern Kentucky jointly developed an educational tool to promote environmentally sensitive planning and to demonstrate how “green” best management practices (BMPs) can be incorporated into site design with the purpose of improving regional stormwater management.
Full Abstract
Download PDF (1.4 MB)
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National Stormwater Best Management Practices Database.
This database provides access to BMP performance data in a standardized format for roughly 200 BMP studies conducted over the past fifteen years. Has some good information on individual case studies but no summary info.
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New Coastal Smart Growth Guidelines from EPA
 In partnership with NOAA, Rhode Island Sea Grant, and the International City/County Management Association, EPA has released Smart Growth for Coastal and Waterfront Communities. This interagency guide builds on existing smart growth principles to offer 10 specific development guidelines for coastal and waterfront communities.
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Rain Gardens Blossom as a Storm-water Management Tool
When it rains, it pours—and that’s the problem for scientists and engineers working in the field of storm-water management. But a study posted today on ES&T’s Research ASAP website (10.1021/es051644f) confirms the effectiveness of rain gardens, an increasingly popular—and aesthetically pleasing—technique for reducing the flow of common pollutants after storms in cities and suburbs. Authors Michael Dietz and John Clausen of the University of Connecticut also show how a simple design modification can enhance rain gardens’ ability to treat the polluted rainwater flowing off roofs. The authors hope that their results will help contribute to the growing acceptance of rain gardens by developers and homeowners.
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Smart Growth Network
The SGN is rapidly becoming a 'brain trust' of knowledge about best practices, approaches, and tools for smart growth. An historic composite of interrelated interests is reflected in its partners representing diverse organizations, agencies and associations. The SGN was created by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1996 and its membership services are directed by the International City/County Management Association.
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Source Water Protection in Rural America - Joe Burns
Southeast and Tennessee Watershed Roundtable Presentation, 2004
Protecting rural water supplies either surface water or groundwater is challenging and rewarding when it happens. This presentation will characterize how successful protection measures have been implemented despite the common obstacles to protection. Case studies will demonstrate how local stakeholders through BMP’s, cost share programs, legal disputes and sheer determination have protected two rural communities in Kentucky.
Download PDF (2.2 MB)
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Stormwater Authority
This site holds research, papers, articles, news - it's all about stormwater, and here you will find an archive of documents from professionals in the stormwater industry.
Excellent BMP resource - Learn about site design, applicabilty, costs, maintenance & more! « BMPs in a Flash.
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Stormwater Management Information from Forester Press
 Forester Communications’ book publishing division offers an expanding library of premier educational and design sources for civil engineering, environmental services, and urban infrastructure professionals. Our titles cover the following subject areas: construction (grading and excavation), solid waste management, soil stabilization, erosion and sediment control, and surface water quality (stormwater).
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Tennessee Erosion and Sediment Control Handbook
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Tennessee Wetlands Reports
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation's Division of Natural Areas has produced two reports on Tennessee's Wetlands:
- An Assessment of Wetland Mitigation in Tennessee
- Tennessee's Wetland Conservation Strategy
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The Use of Best Management Practices in Urban Watersheds
EPA Report (pdf): The Use of Best Management Practices in Urban Watersheds. By Swarna Muthukrishnan, Bethany Madge Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Edison, New Jersey 08837 and Ari Selvakumar, Richard Field, Daniel Sullivan U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Edison, New Jersey 08837.
- Chapter 1: Executive Summary
- Chapter 2: Types of Best Management Practices
- Chapter 3: Stuctural BMP Design Practices
- Chapter 4: BMP Monitoring
- Chapter 5: Effective Use of BMP's in Stormwater Management
- Chapter 6: BMP Cost
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Waterfront & Coastal Smart Growth - Presentation
Presentation for the Southeast Watershed Forum’s conference, Building Sustainable Communities for the 21st Century, held August 12-14, 2008, in Charleston, SC.
Waterfront and Coast Smart Growth - Susan Fox, NOAA Coastal Services Center
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