> **Federal Facilities Seminar**

**Stormwater Requirements for Your Federal Building projects**

> **June, 10, 2008**

**Low Impact Development (LID) Resources**

**EPA New England Stormwater Topic page**-Includes information,
resources and
contacts-http://www.epa.gov/region1/topics/water/stormwater.html

> Includes: [**[Storm Water Virtual Tradeshow: Center for Environmental
> Industry &
> Technology]{.underline}**](http://www.epa.gov/region1/assistance/ceitts/index.html)-
> <http://www.epa.gov/region1/assistance/ceitts/stormwater/vtshow.html>

**Stormwater TMDL Implementation Support Manual-** March, 2006.

<http://www.epa.gov/region01/eco/tmdl/assets/pdfs/Stormwater-TMDL-Implementation-Support-Manual.pdf>.
Information and resources for communities on prioritizing stormwater
mitigation projects, identifying mitigation sites and LID techniques and
strategies, stormwater best management practices, and obtaining funding.

[**[Residential Green Building Guide: A Web Source Book for New
England]{.underline}**](http://www.epa.gov/region1/greenbuildings/residential/pdfs/gbguide.pdf)
(attach pdf found
<http://www.epa.gov/region1/greenbuildings/residential/pdfs/gbguidecomplete>.

Information and resources on green buildings and LID practices.

**EPA New England
GreenScapes**-<http://www.epa.gov/NE/topics/waste/greenscapes.html>

Techniques and resources for homeowners, large-scale landscapers, and
commercial and government land managers on cost-efficient and
environmentally friendly solutions, including LID techniques for
landscaping. Includes fact sheets, tools such as cost calculators, and
informational brochures.

**Green Infrastructure-**
<http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/greeninfrastructure.cfm>. Green
Infrastructure management approaches and technologies infiltrate,
evapotranspire, capture and reuse stormwater to maintain or restore
natural hydrologies. Site contains resources on LID techniques to reduce
stormwater and other excess flows entering combined or separate sewer
systems, using natural systems to cleanse water and to reduce excess
volumes by filtering and treating it using plants, soils and microbes,
such as [Green
Roofs](http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/stormwater/menuofbmps/index.cfm?action=factsheet_results&view=specific&bmp=114),
and [Low Impact Development (LID) and Other Green Design
Strategies](http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/stormwater/menuofbmps/index.cfm?action=browse&Rbutton=detail&bmp=124 )

[**Low Impact Development**](http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/lid/)
--National LID home page. Contains extensive EPA and non-EPA resources
and publications.

Find [Low-Impact Development (LID) Literature Review and Fact
Sheets](http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/lid/)\
Developed by EPA in cooperation with the LID Center, contains a summary
of the current monitoring and effectiveness data on LID practices. Fact
sheets describing four LID case studies are also available.

-   [Low-Impact Development Hydrologic
    Analysis](http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/lid_hydr.pdf) (PDF, 2 Mb, 45
    pages)\
    Prepared by the Prince George\'s County Maryland Department of
    Environmental Resources Programs and Planning Division, with
    assistance from EPA.

-   [Stormwater Management at the EPA Headquarters Office Complex Field
    Evaluation of Permeable Pavements for Stormwater
    Management](http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/pavements.pdf) (PDF, 64 kb,
    2 pages). Demonstrates the potential of permeable pavement systems
    to restore soil infiltration functions in the urban landscape.

> **Reducing Stormwater Costs through Low Impact Development (LID)
> Strategies and Practices**-
> [www.epa.gov/owow/nps/lid/costs07](http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/lid/costs07)[.]{.underline}
>
> Information on the costs and benefits of using Low Impact Development
> (LID) strategies and practices to help protect and restore water
> quality[. "**New"**]{.mark}

**[Stormwater Best Management
Practices](http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/stormwater/menuofbmps/index.cfm)-**

**National Menu Stormwater Best Management Practices- LID** design
strategies

and fact sheets for meeting Phase II Stormwater requirements for
Post-Construction Stormwater Management in new development and
redevelopment.

> **Urban Stormwater Best Management Practices Performance Tool-
> ["New"]{.mark}**
>
> <http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/stormwater/urbanbmp/bmpeffectiveness.cfm>
>
> Provides easy access to approximately 220 studies assessing the
> performance of over 275 BMPs.

**Nonpoint Source Outreach Toolbox**- <http://www.epa.gov/nps/toolbox/>
web-based resources to assist communities with watershed education and
outreach activities. Includes a searchable catalog of print, radio, and
TV ads and outreach materials and

resources on LID techniques.

![](media/image1.jpeg){width="0.9965277777777778in" height="1.05625in"}

**Smart
Growth**-[www.epa.gov/smartgrowth](http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth)
Provides tools and resources, including information on grants and
funding, to help communities learn about and implement smart growth
approaches. Includes: [Using Smart Growth Techniques as Stormwater Best
Management Practices
(EPA)](http://www.epa.gov/livablecommunities/pdf/sg_stormwater_BMP.pdf)
\[PDF - 1.6 MB - 112 pp\], 2005. Provides guidance for helping
communities (i.e. NPDES Phase II communities) develop comprehensive
stormwater and planning documents, outreach programs and compliance
tracking. Offers innovative measures for improving stormwater management
through redevelopment, infill, urban parks and green building
techniques; and [Protecting Water Resources with Smart Growth
(EPA)](http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/pdf/waterresources_with_sg.pdf)
\[PDF - 1.4 MB - 120 pp\], 2004.

[**GreenScapes**](http://www.epa.gov/GreenScapes/)- EPA Headquarters
website containing techniques and resources for homeowners, large-scale
landscapers, and commercial and government land managers. Includes fact
sheets, tools such as cost calculators, and informational brochures.

<http://www.epa.gov/OW-OWM.html/water-efficiency/pp/yard/index.htm>

**The Low Impact Development Center**-
<http://www.lowimpactdevelopment.org/home.htm>

A non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of Low Impact
Development technology via research, training, planning, sustainable
infrastructure design, and ordinance development. National clearinghouse
for information on resources, news & events and publications, and
projects. See

> **LID for Big Box Retailers**-
> <http://lowimpactdevelopment.org/bigbox/>
>
> **Green Highways & Green
> Infrastructure-http://www.lowimpactdevelopment.org/green_highways.htm**\
> **Rain Garden Design
> Templates-**http://www.lowimpactdevelopment.org/raingarden_design**/**
>
> **Urban Design Tools, Low Impact
> Development-**<http://www.lid-stormwater.net/>; and **National LID
> Clearinghouse**- <http://www.lid-stormwater.net/clearinghouse> /
>
> Provides tools and techniques that can be used to meet regulatory and
> receiving water protection program goals for urban retrofits,
> re-development projects, and new development sites.

**NRDC's Rooftops to Rivers report**-Natural Resources Defense Fund,
June, 2006
[**http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/rooftops/contents.asp**](http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/rooftops/contents.asp)\
"Green Strategies for Controlling Stormwater and Combined Sewer
Overflows"

Full report in PDF [Adobe Acrobat
file](http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/rooftops/rooftops.pdf) (size:
1.9 MB)

[**[Low Impact Development Technologies from the Whole Building Design
Guide]{.underline}**](http://www.wbdg.org/design/lidtech.php?r=park_surface)
-http://www.wbdg.org/resources/lidtech.php
![](media/image2.png){width="0.8875in"
height="0.12430555555555556in"}**\
**Presents an alternative site design strategy that uses natural and
engineered infiltration and storage techniques to control storm water
where it is generated.

**LID Guidance Manual for Maine Communities:** Approaches for
implementation of Low Impact Development practices at the local level.
September 21, 2007. Prepared for Maine Coastal Program.

<http://www.maine.gov/spo/landuse/docs/publications.htm>

**One Drop at a Time: LID**\
<http://www.delafleur.com/168_Elm/index.htm>

This web page features the 168 Elm Ave. Pilot Project (Illinois), which
demonstrates sustainable rain water, stormwater, and runoff treatments
at a residential scale. It offers accessible, in-the-ground examples
that demonstrate the feasibility of sustainable landscape solutions.

**Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA) Smart
Growth/Smart Energy Tool kit**: Low Impact Development concepts, model
bylaw, case studies, power point shows, brochure, and links-
<http://www.mass.gov/envir/smart_growth_toolkit/pages/mod-lid.html>

**Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management-Coastal Smart Growth
Program-** [http://www.mass.gov/czm/smartgrowth/index.htm]{.underline}

Low Impact Development Site Design guidance, See [*The Practice of Low
Impact
Development*](http://www.mass.gov/czm/smartgrowth/lid/practice_of_lid.pdf)
(PDF, 2 MB,) and case studies of LID initiatives in Massachusetts cities
and towns.

**The Massachusetts LID Toolkit, Metropolitan Area Planning Council**
<http://www.mapc.org/lid.html> Includes fact sheets on Low Impact Site
Design, roadways and parking areas, permeable paving, bioretention,
vegetated swales, filter strips, infiltration trenches and dry wells,
cisterns and rain barrels, and green roofs.

**Center for Watershed Protection**- <http://www.cwp.org/index.html>

A non-profit corporation that provides local governments, activists, and
watershed organizations around the country with the technical tools for
protecting streams, lakes and rivers. Includes resources for watershed
protection that encompass [watershed
planning](http://www.cwp.org/watershed_planning.htm), [watershed
restoration](http://www.cwp.org/restoration.htm), [stormwater
management](http://www.cwp.org/stormwater_mgt.htm), [watershed
research](http://www.cwp.org/research.htm), [better
site](http://www.cwp.org/better_site_design.htm)

[design](http://www.cwp.org/better_site_design.htm), [education and
outreach](http://www.cwp.org/Outreach.htm), and [watershed
training](http://www.cwp.org/calendar.htm)[. Don't miss]{.mark}...

[Urban Stormwater Retrofit
Practices](http://cwp.org.master.com/texis/master/search/+/form/usrm3.html)
manual outlines the basics of retrofits, costs, and methods to find,
design and deliver retrofits to meet a wide range of subwatershed
objectives. Free [DOWNLOAD
HERE](http://cwp.org.master.com/texis/master/search/+/form/usrm3.html)

**Buzzards Bay National Estuary Program LID
Website-**<http://www.buzzardsbay.org/lid.htm> Provides model LID
regulations, posters, power point shows, and technical assistance
materials.

**Green Roofs for Healthy Cities** - North America Inc. Industry
association- working to promote the design and installation of green
roofs throughout North America-
[http://www.greenroofs.net](http://www.greenroofs.net/)

**Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF**)-
[www.werf.org/livablecommunities](http://www.werf.org/livablecommunities)[.P]{.underline}rovides
practical tools and strategies for implementation of sustainable
stormwater practices such as green infrastructure that can be adapted to
a community or development projects.

**Green Values Stormwater Toolbox**- <http://greenvalues.cnt.org/>

Includes extensive listing of resources and a Stormwater calculator.

[Low Impact technical and outreach materials for the development
industry](http://www.toolbase.org/SearchResults.aspx?SearchTerm=Low Impact Development&ContentType=Website)\
Prepared by the National Home Builders Association Research Center.

The University of New Hampshire (UNH) Stormwater
Center-<http://www.unh.edu/erg/cstev/index.htm>.

The Center serves as technical resource for stormwater practitioners by
studying a range of issues for specific stormwater management strategies
including design, water quality and quantity, cost, maintenance, and
operations. The field research facility serves as a site for testing
stormwater treatment processes, for technology demonstrations and
workshops. Includes:

> **The UNHSC-NEMO (Non-Point Education for Municipal Officials)
> Innovative Stormwater Management Inventory**-
> [http://www.erg.unh.edu/lid/index.asp]{.underline}
>
> Contains innovative BMP strategies, such as Low Impact Development
> (LID) designs, implemented throughout New England.

**University of Massachusetts- Innovative Stormwater Technologies
Clearinghouse**-[www.mastep.net](http://www.mastep.net/)

> **New England Environmental Finance
> Center**-http://efc.muskie.usm.maine.edu/tools.html. A joint project
> with the U.S. EPA and the Muskie School aimed at researching,
> publishing, and extending creative approaches to environmental
> protection and management. Provides a Directory of Watershed
> Resources-a searchable database of funding sources and Low Impact
> Development Fact Sheet -
> <http://efc.muskie.usm.maine.edu/docs/LID_Fact_Sheet.pdf>