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Guidance to stormwater designers about assessing a potential stormwater infiltration site to determine the rate and volume of stormwater that can be expected to infiltrate into the soil.

Design guidance provided for engineers and planners on how to properly develop a bioretention cell.

Information for contractors to properly build an infiltration surface; the soil surface where stormwater or wastewater is expected to enter the soil profile.

Managing stormwater, reducing flooding, and improving water quality.

A brief introduction and instructional guide to using live staking as an inexpensive and simple technique to restoring eroding stream banks.

Stormwater is the water that runs off of houses, streets, parking lots, and other hard surfaces during rain events. It has been identified as a major cause of water pollution.

Guidance on green roof components, their design considerations, and environmental benefits.

This manual for landowners describes where wetland restoration is possible and how it is done. It covers basic wetland concepts, ecological concepts and terms, wetland restoration, and maintenance.

As landscapes grow and develop, the health of streams and rivers affects the quantity and quality of the rainfall entering waterways; what many call stormwater.

Roof-catchment cisterns are systems used to collect and store rainwater for household and other uses.

A skimmer is a basin dewatering control device that withdraws water from near the basin's water surface, removing the highest quality water from the basin for delivery to the uncontrolled environment.

Various low impact development (LIDs) practices and how effective they are at reducing pollutants in stormwater.

Design criterion provided that can be used by engineers to properly size various dewatering control features used as part of the basin's principal spillway.