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How you can help salmon - Reducing stormwater runoff
Paved surfaces also increase the force and volume of water that rushes into streams, eroding banks and ...
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NRDC: Rooftops to Rivers: Green Strategies for Controlling Stormwater and Combined Sewer Overflows
Rain and snow that falls on paved surfaces becomes stormwater runoff that picks up dirt and pollutants as it follows gravity downhill into ...
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Orange County California Watershed
Divert rainspouts and garden hoses from paved surfaces onto grass to allow water to filter through the soil Preserve existing trees, and plant ...
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Orange County California Watershed
Litter, lawn clippings, animal waste, and other organic matter. Oil stains on parking lots and paved surfaces. The Effect on the Ocean Non-point source pollution can have a serious impact on ...
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Area of rooftops / terraces: Area of unpaved surfaces: Area of paved surfaces: 2. What is the type of coating on the roof and paved ground areas (e.g. tiled, asphalted, cement coated ...
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How to Create a Pedestrian Mall
As Mumford wrote: "Waterfronts might be made inaccessible to the stroller, ancient trees might be slaughtered and venerable buildings torn down to speed traffic. This paved desert, ... . These streets should not just be mere roads closed to traffic, but creatively transformed-paved with colorful bricks, lacking curbs and filled with greenery. Basic tools in the initial ...
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SBN Feature Article: March 1999
Kenaf 2000TM, an all natural industrial absorbent used for oil spills on soil, water or paved surfaces. BrandexxTM, a drilling mud additive, is also made from kenaf core material. Petroexx distributes their ...
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More Examples - Prevention - Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay | Polluted Runoff (Nonpoint Source Pollution) | US EPA
Watershed Watch. Limit the amount of impenetrable surfaces in your landscape. Use permeable paving surfaces such as wood decks, bricks, and concrete lattice to let ... paved areas, along with careful trash disposal, are simple, effective pollution reducers. Gutters and down spouts should drain onto vegetated or gravel- filled seepage areas - not directly onto paved surfaces ...
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Managing Nonpoint Source Pollution from Households | Polluted Runoff (Nonpoint Source Pollution) | US EPA
NPS pollution problems. Limit Paved Surfaces Urban and suburban landscapes are covered by paved surfaces like sidewalks, parking lots, roads, and driveways. They ... warmer waters. To limit NPS pollution from paved surfaces households can substitute alternatives to areas traditionally covered by nonporous surfaces. Grasses and natural ground cover, for example, ...
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Closing Down "Open Space"
"Hard vs. soft... includes paved surfaces, green surfaces including grass, trees, bushes, and flower beds, water surfaces including ice and edging; active vs. passive and both. ... historic city has peers in uncovering asphalt wastelands and vitalizing exhausted brownfields. IN paved-over and historically polluted places like Providence, the Bronx, Milwaukee, and Louisville, urbanites ...
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