Stormwater

City of Corvallis Erosion Control Manual

Stormwater Education Ideas

Get good ideas from experienced Oregon water quality outreach specialists by reviewing this 2-page summary of good ideas, tips, and pointers for designing and implementing a stormwater outreach and education campaign.

Stormwater Considerations When Washing

Municipal operations should evaluate modifying washing practices to reduce stormwater pollution. This DEQ guidance details Best Management Practices for washing activities in Oregon.

http://www.deq.state.or.us/wq/wqpermit/WashWater.pdf

Oregon DEQ Information on Public Involvement

Initially written to guide facilities in the "green permit" program, this write up is an excellent summary of public involvement techniques, and ideas to consider in designing a stakeholder and public involvement program.

http://www.deq.state.or.us/programs/greenpermits/AttchmtD.rtf

Revised Washington Department of Ecology Stormwater Manual

Link here for the updated and revised Washington Department of Ecology Stormwater Manual

"Roadwaste Management" - link here to the Oregon Department of Transportation research site for several articles about properly characterizing and managing roadway waste (...some refer to it as vactor waste)

Stormwater Planning: A Guidebook for British Columbia

Stormwater Planning: A Guidebook for British Columbia provides a framework for effective stormwater management throughout the province. The stormwater planning guidebook - a new tool for local governments - presents a methodology for moving from planning to action that focuses on implementing early action where it is most needed. The guidebook approach is designed to eliminate the root cause of negative ecological and property impacts of stormwater by addressing the spectrum of rainfall events.

Now, the website is simplified as follows: www.publications.gov.bc.ca

Click on Public - Go Shopping.
Type "stormwater" in the search engine. Up it pops!
You can download it

EPA - Phase II Use this link to get additional information and assistance building the necessary elements of a Phase II application. Links and details are provided for all six aspects of the Phase II application.

Link to EPA Stormwater Phase II Web Site & Fact Sheets on Phase II

Eco-Roof Resources

City of Portland staff including Tom Liptan have pulled their considerable knowledge of eco-roofs into this single web page.

Public Entity Environmental Management System Resource Center

This site provides information to public agencies wanting to explore establishing an environmental management system for their organization.

Clackamas County Water Environment Services

Oregon Water Resources Water Availability

Center for Watershed Protection - Check this site for links to national publications, technical information, model ordinances, and other watershed assessment and stormwater information.

Washington Department of Ecology, Stormwater Manual

Washington Department of Ecology Stormwater Manual.

Idaho DEQ - Catalog of Stormwater Best Management Practices

ASCE Evaluation of Stormwater BMP Effectiveness

Erosion Control Matrix (link not available at this time)

The ACWA Stormwater Committee has inventoried most of the municipal erosion control programs in Oregon. This speadsheet briefly summarizes the highlights of each program, and provides a contact name and number for most communities.

Water Quality Model Development Code

DEQ and DLCD have developed this guide book to assist local governments in developing erosion control and other water quality protection elements of their land use code.

Stormwater Financing Issues

This web site, developed in part by EPA, focuses on stormwater financing issues.

The Center for Watershed Protection has several new publications available:

"The Practice of Watershed Protection: Techniques for Protecting and Restoring Urban Watersheds" at $80 contains 150 articles on all aspects of watershed protection. Drawn from past issues of Watershed Protection Techniques as well as a wealth of other Center papers and reports, this 800-page book is organized around the eight tools of watershed protection, indexed for easy reference, and introduced by new material from Tom Schueler.
"Urban Stream Restoration Practices: An Initial Assessment" is a $20 publication that assesses the performance of 24 different urban stream restoration practices from sites around the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-west and provides recommendations for improving their application in a variety of urban stream environments.
"National Pollutant Removal Performance Database - 2000 - 2nd Edition" modifies, clarifies, and expands upon the original National Database of BMP Pollutant Removal Performance. This report contains summaries of more than 135 urban pollutant removal monitoring studies. The cost is $25. To order visit or email or call 410/461-8323.

Illicit Discharge Connection Ordinances

Here's some example ordinances from Oregon Cities that include provisions to prevent illicit discharge connections. City of Woodburn (link not available at this time).