Rain Gardens and Storm Water Management Part 1

There seems to be an interest and uncertainty surrounding rain gardens and storm water management. So, to provide a list of resources on the subject (and to help me organize the vast amount of info on this subject), I've provided some valuable links below.

Rain Garden Ordinance - The city of Delafield requires rain gardens for their boat houses (of which they have a large number)
- www.cityofdelafield.com/notices/ORD602.pdf

EPA Model Ordinances to Protect Local Water
- www.epa.gov/owow/nps/ordinance/index.htm

Rain Gardens Case Study - How one city used Rain Gardens to manage stormwater
- Click Here

Slideshow on BMP for Municipal Storm Water Management
- www.raingardeninitiative.org/documents/pdfs/3pm_Maintenance_Christian.pdf

Loads of water management info, including a great poster
- www.albemarle.org/department.asp?department=planning&relpage=5720

Dane County Watershed Rain Gardens info
- http://danewaters.com/private/raingarden.aspx

WDNR Rain Gardens
- http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/runoff/rg/

UW Extension Storm Water Management
- http://clean-water.uwex.edu/plan/stormwater.htm

Array of Sustainable Storm Water Management ideas, including LID
- www.gtbay.org/stormwater.asp

Stormwater Manager's Resource Center
- http://www.stormwatercenter.net/

International Stormwater BMP Database
- www.bmpdatabase.org/

Deforest, WI planting and encouraging rain gardens
- Click Here

Stormwater Calculator - Effects of your Green BMP
- http://greenvalues.cnt.org/chicago/calculator.php

Good municipal natural resource management programming
- Click Here

Water-Efficient Landscaping Model Ordinances
- www.water.ca.gov/wateruseefficiency/landscapeordinance/

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