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Keeping Streams Clean: Water Quality Information Resources
Listed below are documents and links to key websites containing information on watersheds, watershed stewardship, water quality, and water quality improvements:
Planning Materials
Watersheds: An Integrated Water Resources Management Plan for Chester County, Pennsylvania and Its Watersheds
Public Education Brochures
Planning Materials
Watersheds: An Integrated Water Resources Management Plan for Chester County, Pennsylvania and Its Watersheds
- Chapter 7: Stakeholder Roles - Opportunities for Stewardship
- Chapter 8: Strategies for Implementation
Public Education Brochures
- Stormwater Basin Retrofit
- Reducing Stormwater and Flooding
- Maintaining Stormwater Facilities
- Managing Small Ponds
- Stream Restoration
- What is a Watershed?
- Caring for your Streamside Property also published in a 4-page, letter size format
- Watershed Stewardship ... It's Up to You!
- Caring for Your Lawn and Your Environment
Watershed Primer
From the Chester County, Pennsylvania Water Resources Compendium
From the Chester County, Pennsylvania Water Resources Compendium
- Part 1: Watershed Basics
- Part 2: Ground Water and Aquifers
- Part 3: Streams and Riparian Buffers
- Part 4: Land Use Impacts and Watershed Economics
- List of Figures
- References
- Protecting Headwaters: The Scientific Basis for Safeguarding Stream and River Ecosystems
(a research synthesis from the Stroud Water Research Center)
- Schuylkill River Project
(Stroud effort to monitor stream water quality throughout the Schuylkill River basin 1991-2008).
- EPA Healthy Watersheds NEW - Provides information on tools to identify and protect healthy watersheds and their components.
- EPA SepticSmart NEW - Tools and resources to help homeowners manage their septic systems.
- Center for Watershed Protection (CWP)
- Stormwater Resources (The Stormwater Manager's Resource Center)
Stormwater resource library, toolboxes, guidance docs, checklists, BMP sizing, BMP design.
- Stormwater PA
BMP manual, regulations, useful links to local resources, NPDES, Act167, MS4, Federal requirements
- International Stormwater BMP Database
Case Studies, BMP costs, BMP performance data and statistics, links to BMP literature, monitoring and evaluation guidance.
- Villanova Urban Stormwater Partnership - Stormwater BMP research
- Montgomery County, MD Stormwater Management Webpage - Example of TMDL Implementation
- NPDES - MS4 Information (PADEP) - Permitting, general information for PA