Environmental Protection
Resources
Low Impact Development:
New! Sarasota County Preliminary LID Manual
Local LID resources:
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Dr. Mark Clark, UF/IFAS Assistant Professor in Soils and Water Sciences - specializes in enhanced stormwater ponds, such as UF SEEP example
- Wendy Wilber, Alachua County Extension Environmental Horticulture agent - specializes in Florida friendly landscapes for water conservation
General LID Websites:
- The Low Impact Development Center, Inc.
- Urban Design Tools (LID)
- Center for Watershed Protection
- Lake Superior Streams Site Design Toolkit
- Whole Building Design Guide (WBDG)
- Massachusetts LID toolkit
Examples of local government ordinances and manuals that incorporate LID:
- Town of Huntersville, North Carolina, (see Water Quality Ordinance)
- City of Olympia, Washington
- City of Stafford, Virginia
- City of Issaquah, Washington
- Maine Stormwater BMPs
Additional sites:
- Toolbase Services website
- Pervious concrete (ConcreteNetworks.com)
- Green roofs (greenroofs.org and greenroofs.com)
- Exfiltration tanks and trenches (Atlantiscorp.com and Dauphin County fact sheet)
- Vegetated swales (EPA fact sheet, California Stormwater BMP Handbook)
- Bioretention basins/rain gardens
LISTED SPECIES
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Florida FWCC
- Alachua County listed animals
- Alachua County listed plants
- Gopher tortoise manag. plan
- Bald eagle management plan
SURFACE WATERS AND WETLANDS
- EPA Wetland Division
- FDEP Office of Submerged Lands
- FDEP Wetland Delineation Program
- Society of Wetland Scientists
SUSTAINABILITY
- Alachua County Sustainability Office
- Sustainable Alachua County
- UF Office of Sustainability
- IFAS Sustainable Living page
- Sustainable Sites Initiative
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
