Stormwater Documents
The following documents are useful in understanding the basics of Stormwater Management:
General Information
- EPA Stormwater Program Overview
- National Menu of Stormwater Best Management Practices (BMPs)
- EPA Municipal Stormwater Management (MS4) Overview
- EPA Outreach & Education on Stormwater Impacts
- When it Rains, it Drains
- Promoting Clean Streams and Safe Drinking Water
- Strategies: Community Responses to Runoff Pollution
Homeowner Information
- Turn Your Home into a Stormwater Pollution Solution
- Guidebook to Maintaining Privately Owned Stormwater Systems
[The Chester Ridley Crum Watersheds Association provided the five timely and useful documents for homeowners linked below:]
- 'Four Seasons' Monthly Stormwater Planner
- Rain Gardens: a Beautiful Contribution to Cleaner Water
- Don't Top Trees 'Fact Sheet
- Proper Mulching: the Key to Healthy Trees
- The Value of Trees
[In May of 2006, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection awarded a grant to Tredyffrin Township for the work in Trout Creek. As a part of this grant, the Township compiled an educational brochure with information about how residents can help improve the watershed through projects in their own yards. Tredyffrin Township has granted permission to post the valuable information for Malvern Borough. The following portions of the document provide information on how homeowners can install stormwater practices for reducing and infiltrating stormwater runoff, a process through which the water is filtered by plants and permeates through the soil before it reaches our streams. These actions can significantly slow and reduce the volume of runoff generated by impervious surfaces.]
- Introduction
- Rain Gardens
- Vegetated Swales
- Dry Wells
- Infiltration Beds
- Infiltration Trenches
- Planter Boxes
- Rain Barrels
- Riparian Buffer Plantings
- Native Landscape Restoration
