Achieving water quality goals in Pennsylvania's waters is now more streamlined with the launch of the PA MS4 Collaboration Toolkit, a resource created by the Center for Watershed Protection (CWP) to empower Pennsylvania municipalities to work together and tackle water quality challenges more efficiently and cost-effectively. As federal and state agencies intensify efforts to improve water quality, local municipalities are under pressure to meet increasingly stringent requirements. Watersheds do not align with municipal boundaries, which make collaboration integral. The PA MS4 Collaboration Toolkit provides a clear, step-by-step roadmap for municipalities eager to team up and address the National Pollutant [...]

  RainSmart Rebates is a two-year residential pilot program for homeowners in the George W. Kuhn Drainage District in Oakland County, Michigan. The District serves all or some of the following communities illustrated in Figure 1: Berkley, Beverly Hills, Birmingham, Clawson, Ferndale, Hazel Park, Huntington Woods, Madison Heights, Oak Park, Pleasant Ridge, Royal Oak, Royal Oak Township, Southfield, and Troy. The program offers homeowners in these communities up to $2,000 for implementing sustainable stormwater practices like rain gardens, tree planting, and rain barrels. The current available funding is being allocated throughout 2024 and 2025 on a first-come, first-served basis until [...]

  CWP, through an on-call engineering agreement for watershed planning services, assisted the Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability with developing an outfall screening plan for the County’s more than 12,000 stormwater outfalls. Baltimore County’s stormwater permit requires that the County develop a plan to prioritize outfall field screening efforts in areas with the greatest potential for illicit discharges—defined as discharges that are not composed entirely of stormwater—which are prohibited by the County’s regulations. CWP conducted a series of geospatial analyses that began with an Outfall Inventory to ensure the data associated with stormwater outfalls in the County’s [...]

  The CWP 2023 National Watershed & Stormwater Conference, Value of Water – Stormwater Harvesting & Reuse, Nutrient Trading and Funding, was held April 24-27, 2023, at the Westin in the Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego, CA. This annual conference provides a forum for sharing fresh ideas on watershed and stormwater management principles and practices. For four days, over 200 watershed professionals from federal, state, and local government agencies, consulting firms, universities, and non-profits from across the nation (and some international) gathered for technical presentations, case studies, panel discussions, and workshops. And as always, with CWP events, the conference was [...]