Storm Water Management for Residents:
Storm water management protects our environment, reduces flooding to protect people, wildlife and property, supports healthy streams and rivers and creates a healthier more sustainable community for all.
- What is Storm Water Management and Why is it important: https://extensionpublications.unl.edu/assets/pdf/g2238.pdf
The Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) has excellent resources about what residents can do to manage storm water on their property and recommends:
- picking up litter and pet waste,
- minimizing use of pesticides,
- installing a rain barrel,
- creating a rain garden,
- planting native trees and shrubs
Consider some of their publications:
- Basin Retrofit
- Maintaining your Stormwater Basin
- How to Create a Meadow
- Naturalizing your Yard
- Creating your Rain Garden
Your Penn State Extension Office also provides excellent resources and publications:
- Household Water Conservation from Penn State Extension: https://extension.psu.edu/household-water-conservation
- An Introduction to Rain Gardens: https://extension.psu.edu/an-introduction-to-rain-gardens
- Benefits for using Rain Barrels from Penn State Extension: https://extension.psu.edu/rain-barrels
Storm Water Management and Water Basins
https://pecpa.org/wp-content/uploads/Water-Resources-Maintaining-Stormwater-Basins.pdf
Lawn Reduction and Meadow Creation and Management
https://conservationtools.org/library_items/1441-How-to-Create-a-Meadow-in-Southeastern-Pennsylvania-The-Basics
https://www.massaudubon.org/content/download/19413/274073/file/Best-Management-Practices_Grasslands.pdf