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  Matrix of Techniques

    This table describes different techniques for implementing LID in a variety of environments includes specifics on:
    Site Design, Open Channels, Rain Barrels and Cisterns, Green Rooftop Systems, Bioretention, Stormwater Planters, and Vegetated Buffers. View matrix (pdf) at:

    http://www.mass.gov/lid/pdf/matrix.pdf

Manuals

    The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website has a page devoted to LID resources including a manual entitled, Low Impact Development Design Strategies: An Integrated Design Approach. This document was prepared by the Prince George's County Maryland Department of Environmental Resources Programs and Planning Division, with assistance from EPA.

    http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/lid/

    The website of the Low Impact Development Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to balancing growth and environmental integrity, provides links to many resources including LID manuals from many states.

    http://www.lowimpactdevelopment.org/links.htm

    The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development website (HUD USER) includes a publication entitled, The Practice of Low Impact Development, published July 2003. This publication is intended to assist building professionals and municipal planning officials by 1) providing basic conventional and innovative land development technology information, and 2) encouraging the amendment of existing development codes to facilitate the use of those technologies. View this publication at:

    http://www.huduser.org/publications/destech/lowImpactDevl.html


Specifications

    The Urban Design Tools website provides specifics on LID techniques including design specifications, costs, and construction and maintenance requirements. The website was designed by the Low Impact Development Center with funding from EPA.

    http://www.lid-stormwater.net/intro/


Rain Gardens

    The website of Rain Gardens of West Michigan, an environmental education program focused on stormwater education, and on the values of using rain gardens and native plants in the landscape to improve urban and suburban water quality, provides resources on techniques for building rain gardens.

    http://www.raingardens.org/Index.php


Porous Pavement

    Information about different types of porous pavement is provided on the website of NEMO (Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials), a University of Connecticut education program for land use decision makers that addresses the relationship of land use to natural resource protection.

    http://www.nemo.uconn.edu/reducing_runoff/index.htm



For more information on LID, contact Andrea Cooper, Smart Growth Coordinator, Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management (CZM),
251 Causeway Street, Suite 800, Boston, MA 02114-2138
(617) 626-1222

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