EPA’s Water Quality Scorecard was developed to help local governments identify opportunities to remove barriers, and revise and create codes, ordinances, and incentives for better water quality protection. It guides municipal staff through a review of relevant local codes and ordinances, across multiple municipal departments and at the three scales within the jurisdiction of a local government (municipality, neighborhood, and site), to ensure that these codes work together to protect water quality goals.

Washington DC (August 1998) - The Center for Watershed Protection’s Better Site Design Handbook offers comprehensive guidance on better site design. The handbook outlines 22 guidelines for more environmentally friendly, economically viable, and locally appropriate development. The primary audience for this manual is the local planner, engineer, developer, and official involved in the designing and building of new communities.

Washington DC (August 1998) - The Center for Watershed Protection’s Better Site Design Handbook offers comprehensive guidance on better site design. The handbook outlines 22 guidelines for more environmentally friendly, economically viable, and locally appropriate development. The primary audience for this manual is the local planner, engineer, developer, and official involved in the designing and building of new communities.

This 2008 municipal handbook from the Environmental Protection Agency consists of a series of documents to help local officials implement green infrastructure in their communities.

This 2011 webinar presented by EPA focuses on updating local codes to cultivate green infrastructure and support sustainable stormwater management. Regulatory drivers and watershed approaches are reviewed, case studies are presented, and the top 10 ten things to search and replace in your plans and codes are identified.

This short book will guide you through the basics of leading an effective meeting including:
* Crafting a useful agenda,
* Inviting the right team members,
* Making sure everyone’s voice is heard while avoiding conflict,
* Capturing decisions, ideas, and follow-up tasks.

The EFC’s Local Government Stormwater Financing Manual was inspired by and written for local government leaders. Public sector financing in general, and stormwater financing specifically often appear to be inaccessibly complicated and technical to even experienced public officials. Therefore, rather than try to address the myriad of issues associated with stormwater financing, our strategy was to provide a foundation for local officials to move forward by focusing on perhaps the most important financing attribute: leadership and the ability to move communities towards effective action.