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A longish article and resources list regarding low impact development and effects on water systems.
Showing posts with label Low Impact. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Low Impact. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Low Impact Development (LID) Kitsap County, Washington
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Low Impact Development (LID): to reduce runoff volume by infiltrating rainfall water to groundwater, evaporating rainwater back to the atmosphere after a storm and finding beneficial uses for water rather than exporting it as a waste product down storm sewers – resulting in less surface runoff and less pollution damage to lakes, streams and coastal waters. Kitsap LID is dedicated to helping builders and homeowners find the best way to lessen their impact on the environment. If you don't see what you're looking for here on our site, please contact us and we'll find the answer you seek!
peswiki: Low Impact Hydro
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Directory of low-impact hydroelectric technologies and related resources.
Low Impact Development (LID) (Massachusetts)
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Low Impact Development (LID) is a more sustainable land development approach that begins with a site planning process that first identifies critical natural resource areas for preservation. Development patterns based on conventional zoning codes in Massachusetts often result in "sprawl" with its associated large impervious areas, loss of natural resources and habitat, increase in nonpoint source pollution, and alteration of hydrologic systems.
Alberta Low Impact Development Partnership Society
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To protect and maintain the integrity of the natural environment while promoting the growth, prosperity and quality of life of Alberta’s communities. Implementation of low impact development practices will lead to healthier, more sustainable watersheds. The Alberta Low Impact Development Partnership (ALIDP) was created in the fall of 2004 in response to the need to protect and maintain the integrity of the natural environment while promoting the growth, prosperity and quality of life in Alberta’s communities.
Low Impact Development - Buzzards Bay National Estuary
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The goal of LID is to mimic a site's predevelopment hydrology by using design techniques that infiltrate, filter, store, evaporate, and detain runoff close to its source. The Buzzards Bay National Estuary Program is an advisory and planning unit of the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management. We receive funding from, and are part of, the US Environmental Protection Agency's National Estuary Program. Created in 1985, the Buzzards Bay NEP completed a Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan for the Bay in 1991.
Low Impact Forestry
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A book by the Maine Environmental Policy Institute: Low-Impact Forestry: Forestry as if the Future Mattered. If the future mattered, how would our forests be managed? This question is asked and answered in an indespensible new book, Low-Impact Forestry: Forestry as if the Future Mattered, edited by Mitch Lansky, author of the acclaimed critique of industrial forestry, Beyond the Beauty Strip: Saving What’s Left of Our Forests.
Low Impact Development (LID) Practices for Storm Water Management
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A cost effective way to address storm water management through site design modifications and "Best Management Practices". Water quality concerns have intensified and storm water management practices have come under scrutiny as development occurs on an increasing percentage of the available land area in the United States. With more stringent design requirements, costs for traditional collection and conveyance systems have risen sharply.
Low Impact Development (LID) Urban Design Tools Website
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The site provides watershed managers with a new set of tools and techniques that can be used to meet regulatory and receiving water protection program goals for urban retrofits, re-development projects, and new development sites. LID technology is an alternative comprehensive approach to stormwater management. It can be used to address a wide range of Wet Weather Flow (WWF) issues, including Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs), National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Stormwater Phase II permits, Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) permits, Nonpoint Source Program goals, and other Water Quality Standards.
Low Impact Development (LID)
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This is an U.S. EPA site about Low Impact Development. LID is an approach to land development (or re-development) that works with nature to manage stormwater as close to its source as possible. LID employs principles such as preserving and recreating natural landscape features, minimizing effective imperviousness to create functional and appealing site drainage that treat stormwater as a resource rather than a waste product. There are many practices that have been used to adhere to these principles such as bioretention facilities, rain gardens, vegetated rooftops, rain barrels, and permeable pavements. By implementing LID principles and practices, water can be managed in a way that reduces the impact of built areas and promotes the natural movement of water within an ecosystem or watershed. Applied on a broad scale, LID can maintain or restore a watershed's hydrologic and ecological functions. LID has been characterized as a sustainable stormwater practice by the Water Environment Research Foundation and others.
Low Impact Hydropower Institute
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The Low Impact Hydropower Institute (LIHI) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to reducing the impacts of hydropower generation through the certification of hydropower projects that have avoided or reduced their environmental impacts pursuant to the Low Impact Hydropower Institute’s criteria. There are thousands of hydropower dams in the United States located on many of our most important rivers and streams. These dams can create pollution-free energy, but they can also produce significant adverse impacts on fish and wildlife and other resources.
Low Impact Development Center
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A non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of Low Impact Development technology. Low Impact Development is a new, comprehensive land planning and engineering design approach with a goal of maintaining and enhancing the pre-development hydrologic regime of urban and developing watersheds. The Low Impact Development Center was established to develop and provide information to individuals and organizations dedicated to protecting the environment and our water resources through proper site design techniques that replicate pre-existing hydrologic site conditions.
Low impact living initiative
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Low-Impact Living Initiative (LILI) is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to help people reduce their impact on the environment, improve their quality of life, gain new skills, live in a healthier and more satisfying way, have fun and save money.
They have an online forum, offer a long list of books, offer courses, etc, related to low impact living.
Low-impact living is a way of behaving and thinking that aims to reduce our impact on the ecology of our planet, on resources and on each other.
Low Impact Housing
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Their goal is to identify and document outstanding examples low energy, low environmental impact housing. The survey is open to the full range of housing forms from single detached to multi-unit projects, community and subdivision developments, from owner-built to custom-designed demonstration projects.
Apparently it is a questionnaire style survey about different low impact housing projects.
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