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Curb stormwater pollution. With native plants, they filter rain, reducing runoff and promoting local waterway health
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Regular maintenance of systems like detention ponds. Inspect, clean, repair to prevent waterway pollution. Follow local guidelines
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Raise awareness, educate, empower through outreach, campaigns, and workshops for sustainable stormwater management
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Low-Impact Development (LID)
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Rain gardens, planters, green roofs—surface storage, vegetation, engineered soil, gravel drainage and underdrain system. >>>
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Use gravel-filled trenches to store stormwater, gradually infiltrating into soil. Optionally, an underdrain system can be integrated >>>
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Continuous or block pavers—pavement layer over gravel. Porous surface allows stormwater entry, storage, gradual infiltration. An underdrain system is optional >>>
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Rain Barrels: Efficiently collect roof runoff, release at a controlled pace or for irrigation. (Cisterns also fall under “rain barrel” category.) >>>
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Designed as vegetated channels or depressions. Provide a natural means for allowing a portion of intercepted stormwater to gradually infiltrate the underlying soil
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Measures like stabilizing slopes and using erosion control blankets help manage stormwater runoff efficiently, reducing pollutants in waterways.
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Testing local water samples identifies pollution sources, tracks strategy effectiveness, and engages communities for effective stormwater runoff prevention
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