Click the Links Below for
Watershed Information and Sustainable Planning Resources
Watershed Information:
Big Walnut Creek
-Big
Walnut Creek Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)*
-Big
Walnut Creek Watershed Action Plan
-Rocky
Fork Creek Watershed Action Plan (PDF)
-Blacklick
Creek Watershed Action Plan (PDF)
-Alum
Creek Watershed Action Plan
-Clean
Streams Northeast (establishing riparian buffers in Big
Walnut watershed)
Olentangy River
-Olentangy
River TMDL
-Lower
Olentangy Watershed Action Plan
-Upper
Olentangy Watershed Action Plan
-Olentangy River Wetland
Research Park
Walnut Creek
-Walnut
Creek TMDL
Upper Scioto River
-Upper
Scioto River TMDL (upper portion, see report for specific
area covered)
-Upper
Scioto Watershed Action Plan (PDF) (see the plan for
specific area covered)
-Scioto
River Watershed Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP)
* A TMDL is an analysis conducted by Ohio EPA
to assess water quality and determine the amount of pollution a
waterbody can receive and still meet water quality standards.
The report includes actions to maintain and improve waterbodies.
Smart Growth and Sustainable Communities:
-MORPC
Better Planning Workshops and Webinars
-Smart
Growth in Rural Communities
-Smart Growth Network
-US EPA Smart
Growth, and HUD-DOT-USEPA partnership for Sustainable
Communities
-Congress for the New Urbanism
-Urban Land Institute
-American
Planning Association Ohio Chapter
-Ohio State University
Extension-Community Development
-Growing
Wealthier: Smart Growth, Climate Change and Prosperity (A
Center for Clean Air Policy report)
-Sustainable
Communities Building Blocks (deadline Feb. 23 to apply for
technical assistance program)
Managing Stormwater with Green
Infrastructure:
-Rooftops
to Rivers
-Central Ohio
Rain Garden Initiative
-Franklin Soil and Water
Conservation District
-City
of Chicago Green Alley Handbook (PDF)
-U.S.
EPA (Managing Wet Weather With Green Infrastructure)
-The
Green Infrastructure Municipal Handbook
-Ohio NEMO
-The Center for
Neighborhood Technology
-Northern
KY, Sanitation District 1
-Green Roads (The City
of Upper Arlington is the first in Ohio to achieve this
certification)
-Low-Impact
Development Center
General:
-U.S.
EPA
Watershed Academy Webcast Seminars
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