This document provides an annotated list of resources on low impact development (LID) practices and policies for sustainable stormwater management. It includes over 30 references such as guidance manuals, journal articles, and government reports on topics like green infrastructure, urban soil compaction, nutrient credit trading programs, and the costs and benefits of LID strategies. The references provide information on LID best practices, case studies, and approaches to making watershed restoration more cost effective through policy changes.

1. Internet Resource Guide for
“LID and Policy: Sustainable Development Practices:
What is Stopping Us?”
May 2010
Barlow, Maude “Our Water Commons: Toward a new freshwater narrative.” The
Council of Canadians and onthecommons.org,
http://www.onthecommons.org/media/pdf/original/OurWaterComonsOctober2008English.pdf
Brunswick County Low Impact Development (LID) Guidance Manual
http://www.brunswickcountync.gov/Portals/0/bcfiles/en_Brunswick_County_LID_Guidance_Manu
al.pdf
Center for Watershed Protection. Article 36: “The Compaction of Urban Soils.”
http://www.cwp.org/Resource_Library/Center_Docs/PWP/ELC_PWP36.pdf
Center for Watershed Protection. Article 37:”Can Urban Soil Compaction be
Reversed?”
http://www.cwp.org/Resource_Library/Center_Docs/PWP/ELC_PWP37.pdf
CH2M Hill, Inc.,“A Nutrient Credit Trading Framework for the Jordan Lake
Watershed: Using Market-based Mechanisms to Make Watershed Restoration
More Cost Effective,” February 2009
http://www.cfra-nc.org/documents/FinalReport-FullReport_000.pdf
County of Los Angeles Low Impact Design Standards Manual. January 2009
http://dpw.lacounty.gov/wmd/LA_County_LID_Manual.pdf
Design Guidebook, Town of Huntersville, NC.
http://www.huntersville.org/planning%20info/design%20guidebook%20for%20web.pdf
EcoNorthwest. “Appendix B: The Relationship between Residential Development
Patterns and Effects on Stormwater and Wastewater,” Prepared for the National
Association of Homebuilders, August 29, 2008 (Not available 5/6/2010)
Garde, Ajay. “Sustainable by Design? Insights from US LEED-ND Pilot Projects.”
Journal of the American Planning Association Volume 75 Number 4, Autumn
2009, pp 424-440 http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/316990__914017852.pdf
Jordan Cover Watershed Project
http://www.jordancove.uconn.edu/jordan_cove/publications/final_report.pdf
Katz, Gregory. “Greening America’s Schools: Costs and Benefits” A Cape-E
Report, October 2006 http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=2908
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2. KITSAP Low Impact Design Guidance Manual (July 1, 2009)
http://www.kitsaphba.org/LID/resources/Cookbook%20V%201_21%20070109.pdf
Kravcik, J. et al “Water for the Recovery of the Climate: A New Water Paradigm”
http://waterparadigm.org/indexen.php?web=./home/homeen.html
Low Impact Design Manual for Michigan
http://library.semcog.org/InmagicGenie/DocumentFolder/LIDManualWeb.pdf
Monash University, Australia. “Stormwater Flow and Quality, and the
Effectiveness of Non-Proprietary Stormwater Treatment Measures – A Review
and Gap Analysis.” (2004)
http://www.catchment.crc.org.au/pdfs/technical200408.pdf
North Carolina Cooperative Extension. “Low Impact Design – A Guidebook for
North Carolina,” June 2009
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/agecon/WECO/lid/documents/NC_LID_Guidebook.pdf
Novotny, Dr. Vladamir. “Cities of the Future – Creating Blue Water for Green
Cities”Center for Urban Environmental Studies Northeastern University, Boston,
Massachusetts(2006)
http://www.johnsonfdn.org/confMaterial/CitiesofFuture-BlueWaterGreenCities_July%202006.pdf
Prince Georges Low Impact Design Manual http://www.epa.gov/nps/lidnatl.pdf
Puget Sound LID Manual http://www.psp.wa.gov/downloads/LID/LID_manual2005.pdf
US Environmental Protection Agency. “Infiltration Through Disturbed Urban Soils
and Compost. Amended Soil Effects on Run-off Quality and Quantity.”
EPA/600/R-00/016
http://www.epa.gov/ednnrmrl/publications/reports/epa600r00016/epa600r00016.pdf
US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) “Protecting Water Resources with
Smart Growth,” EPA 231-R-04-002, May 2004.
http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/water_resource.htm
US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) “Protecting Water Resources with
Higher Density,” EPA 231-R-06-001, US EPA, Washington DC, 2006
http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/water_density.htm
US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Environmental Protection Agency. ,
“Reducing Stormwater Costs through Low Impact Development (LID)
Strategies,” EPA 841-F-07-006, December 2007.
http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/lid/costs07/
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3. Zickler , Len “Managing stormwater in Pierce County: Kensington Estates case
study sheds light on low impact development.” July 25, 2002
http://www.djc.com/news/en/11135654.html
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