Created by Casey Trees, this 2014 Merit Award winner of the American Planning Association, provides a rich story of the Nation's Capital and its long relationship with its tree canopy, The handbook's details ways the City has linked its regulatory stormwater program to tree canopy health. Included in this case study are template questions and generalized advice useful to building any successful advocacy campaign. 

In the world of stormwater management many are familiar with the term "Best Management Practices" or "BMPs" as it is applied to structural or engineered practices used to capture, retain, use, reduce, treat, and delay the movement of rainfall through the watershed. However, the term BMP is also applied to the programmatic approaches jurisdications can take to meet the terms of their MS4 permits. 

Water Words That Work LLC has reviewed surveys, focus group reports, “how to” guides,studies, and reports to shed light on how the public and businesses react to the introduction of a
stormwater utility fee. This review is used to define steps communities can take to set up a stormwater utility. 

Why should local leaders promote opportunities for outdoor recreation? Besides improving quality of life for residents and encouraging active, healthy lifestyles, it can mean significant funds for local businesses and communities.

Use these quick facts and useful conclusions to support your case for the value of "green infrastructure" in its classic sense, open parklands and build an argument for the link between public investment in spaces for recreation and innovative onsite stormwater management. 

The use of green infrastructure is an important strategy for HUD's Office of Economic Resilience (OER) and its Sustainable Communities Initiative (SCI) grantees, especially as communities plan for the concurrent and future impacts of climate change and natural disasters.The incorporation of green infrastructure can be a cost-effective solution to help communities save taxpayer money on public infrastructure capital investment and maintenance costs, improve stormwater management and water quality, reduce combined sewer overflows (CSOs), and limit the impacts of flooding on h

This 2009 webcast from EPA's Office of Wastewater Management consists of one presentation on revising local plans, codes, and ordinances, and two presentations on water harvesting. The EPA's Water Quality Scorecard is also discussed.

Tool 4: Code and Ordinance Worksheet, from Managing Stormwater in Your Community: A Guide for Building an Effective Post-Construction Program

Year: 2008

Author: Center for Watershed Protection

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.