This fact sheet from the North Carolina Cooperative Extension describes the benefits of using baffles for erosion and sediment control. It includes the different types of baffles and how they may be used.
Chapter 3 of the Virginia Erosion and Sediment Control Handbook. This chapter outlines state minimum standards and specifications for erosion and sediment control.
This 2011 document by the Natural Resources Conservation Service provides the conservation practice standard for anionic polyacrylamide (PAM) application.
A list of counties and municipalities in the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas.
This document provides web links to each Bay State's ESC program page as well as direct links to their ESC manuals.
This guide from the USDA NRCS discusses impacts of erosion on construction sites and principles of construction erosion control.
This fact sheet from the USDA NRCS provides additional details about how to detect, prevent, and alleviate soil compaction.
The USDA Web Soil Survey provides soil data and information produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. It contains soil maps and data for over 95 percent of the nation's counties, providing an authoritative source of soil survey information.
The City of Lenexa, Kansas, supports their Rain to Recreation program with a number of revenue streams. The systems development fee has been in place for more than a decade. This is a one-time fee paid by a developer at the time of permitting. The funds are used to recover the costs of expanding infrastructure systems to account for the impact of growth created by new and redevelopment. This case study describes the process of developing the fee and outlines the cost reductions it was able to produce.
The Environmental Finance Center worked with several municipalities in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to recommend a sustainable financing approach to help meet their stormwater management goals. In one municipality, Warwick Township, it was found that the cost to replace their gray infrastructure storm sewer pipe system would be over $1.9 million in 30 years. However, the cost to maintain and renovate all municipally owned BMPs over 20 years through an established asset management program would be just over $260,000. That’s a savings of almost $1.6 million.