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 Water Quality

NALGEP is working with communities to identify cost effective solutions and tools to meet the new Phase 1 and Phase II stormwater requirements, the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) restrictions and local clean water goals. 

NALGEP's Smart Growth for Clean Water project focuses on the use of smart growth tools like land conservation, greenway buffers, the creation of parks and open space, natural and constructed wetlands, low impact development, watershed-based management, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping, and other tools to reduce nonpoint source pollution control stormwater, and improve water quality.

 

Projects
    		•  Community Revitalization Research Initiative
    Under this cooperative agreement NALGEP worked to research barriers to revitalization, organized and led an expert Advisory Committee on revitalization, and conducted nine Community Revitalization Roundtables. US EPA awarded this cooperative agreement to NALGEP in August 2002.
    		• Smart Growth for Clean Water
    NALGEP is partnering with the Trust for Public Land and the Eastern Research Group to help states and localities use land conservation, watershed management, brownfields redevelopment, and other smart growth tools as key strategies for achieving water quality goals.
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    Local Innovation
  		•  San Diego Creek Watershed Natural Treatment System
    The Irvine Ranch Water District (IRWD) has made a commitment to improving the ailing water quality of the San Diego Creek.
  		• GIS Mapping Links Open Space and Water Resource Protection
    Boston area localities are using Geographic Information System maps to help them identify and preserve open space lands where streams and productive aquifers are threatened by sprawling growth.
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