• NEWS FROM AWARE

Over 75 planners, engineers, stormwater coordinators and others attended the recent Managing Stormwater Quantity and Quality Through Land Use Planning workshop.  Cosponsored by AWARE Colorado, the Colorado Office of Smart Growth, Colorado Municipal League, Colorado Counties, Inc., and the Colorado Chapter of the American Planning Association, the workshop addressed the connection between the built environment, stormwater runoff volume and associated water quality and quantity issues. Presenters discussed low impact development and other water-protective strategies to minimize negative water resource impacts and reduce the need for expensive stormwater infrastructure and waterway stabilization projects.  Attendees learned about Urban Drainage and Flood Control District’s four-step approach to stormwater management and Fort Collins’ review of stormwater best management practices. 

To view presentations and related resource materials, logon www.awarecolorado.org/workshop.html.

• RESOURCES

From Gray Funnels to Green Sponges Podcasts: Green Streets

This podcast includes an interview with Clark Wilson, senior urban planner with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, discussing green streets – an alternative to the way we’ve built streets in the past – and how they’re used for stormwater management.

Logon http://epa.gov/owow/podcasts/grayfunnelsgreensponges.html.

Understanding Barriers and Incentives to Building Rain Gardens

Paul Dearlove, manager for the Lake Ripley Management Unit in south central Wisconsin, is collaborating with UW-Madison faculty and graduate students to plan a CBSM program to motivate landowners to build rain gardens on their properties.

Logon http://ecsm.uwex.edu/pdfs/EC&SMNewsletter1-1.pdf.

Moratorium on Porous Concrete

Urban Drainage and Flood Control District recently called for a temporary moratorium on the installation of porous concrete.

For more information, logon http://udfcd.org/UDFCD%20PCP%20Memo.pdf.

Porous Asphalt Pavement

These PowerPoint presentations are from an April 2008, Virginia Asphalt Association seminar on designing and constructing porous asphalt pavements..

Logon www.vaasphalt.org/documents/08_Complete_Engineers_Porous_Pavements_Presentations.pdf.

Connecticut Low Impact Development (LID) Regulations

This Web site allows you to explore some Connecticut town and city regulations that have introduced innovative solutions to stormwater management.

Logon http://clear.uconn.edu/tools/lid_reg/index.htm.

Permeable Paver System

This slide show demonstrates the installation of a permeable paver system at a residential driveway.

Logon www.mezaconstruction.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=1&Itemid=7.

Stormwater Parking Lot

The City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works received a $121,500 EPA Great Cities grant to implement green parking lot best management practices (BMPs) including pervious pavement, stormwater trees and rain gardens to achieve a reduction in stormwater runoff from a city-owned surface parking lot.

For more information, logon www.epa.gov/region5/greatcities/milwaukee/project2.htm.

Runoff Reduction Method Technical Memo

This memo uses extensive background research on BMP performance to determine the ability for the BMP to reduce the overall volume of runoff in addition to pollutant removal.

Logon www.cwp.org/Resource_Library/Controlling_Runoff_and_Discharges/sm.htm.

• FOR MORE INFORMATION

To learn more about ways communities can prevent the impacts of land use on water quality, visit the AWARE Colorado Web site at www.awarecolorado.org.

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