Lessons from Pennsylvania Communities Presented by the Environmental Law Institute and 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania.

This report presents an argument for a collaborative inter jurisdicational approach to stormwater investment to ensure efficiency, equitablity, and financial and environmental sustainablility. With 2500 municipalities, 67 counties, and thousands of authorities, the authors identify the immense challenge facing the state to protect its 83,000 miles of streams and reivers.

Highlighting collaborative intiatives thirteen counties are pursuing--Centre, Lehigh, Allegheny, Butler, Berks, Westmoreland, Dauphin, Montgomery, Chester, Lebanon, Schuylkill, Bucks, and Monroe--these case synopsis spotlight what is possible when jurisdictions join forces.

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