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Long-term maintenance of rain gardens ensures they continue to function as designed.

Growing Great Buffers is a series of short, helpful videos that describe step-by-step maintenance tasks needed for newly planted riparian buffers.

Minimize stormwater runoff from lawns this spring.

The Master Watershed Steward Program is offering rain barrel accessory kits at select Extension offices

Heavy rainstorms can carry pollution into waterways. Discover how stormwater is managed to keep our communities and ecosystems safe.

A sinkhole is one of several things that can lead to land subsidence, where the ground sinks gradually or suddenly.

Thoughtful selection of streamside trees and shrubs can have the added bonus of producing fruit, nuts, berries, or woody florals for profit or personal enjoyment.

A video guide to affordable and easy stream bank restoration using branch cuttings called live stakes.

Purchase a rain barrel accessory kit to support the Master Watershed Steward Program

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

Tips for using the Rain to Drain: Slow the Flow Curriculum at fairs and community events when time is limited.

An interactive online atlas of statewide water resources and use trends to inform and educate Pennsylvanians on the sustainable use of our lakes, rivers, streams, and groundwater.

Homeowners can reduce stormwater runoff on their property by installing rain barrels under downspouts. The captured water can be used various ways around the landscape.

The following is a list of Middle School Level performance expectations from the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)*, which are addressed by Rain to Drain: Slow the Flow.

Rain to Drain: Slow the Flow is a hands-on stormwater education curriculum available from Penn State Extension Youth Water Resources and 4-H.

This annual project seeks to enhance public knowledge and awareness regarding the function and importance of storm drains.

An informative guide to sweetbay magnolia (Magnolia virginiana), detailing its unique characteristics, site preferences, and value to wildlife.

Stormwater can cause water pollution because it often contains harmful materials picked up when it washed across the land.

Have you ever wondered why your basement keeps flooding or your driveway is washing away? Stormwater could be damaging your property.

Want to control stormwater on your property? There are many different things you can do.

It is important to realize that activities on your property can adversely affect your neighbor's property, because water does not follow property boundaries

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.

Does stormwater really affect me? Why should I care? Whether you live in a town, the country, a city, or the suburbs – when it rains, the water that runs off needs somewhere to go. Stormwater affects everyone!