Book and Video on
Blue-Green Technologies
“Blue-Green Technologies: Integrated Practices to Manage Stormwater as an Asset” is now
available from Great Swamp Watershed Association. The book is ideal for professional engineers, land
use experts, and landscape architects. The
handbook was developed as a companion to the Watershed Association’s most
recent video, “Doing Water Right: Managing Stormwater with Blue-Green
technology”.
Blue-green technologies are environmentally friendly ways to handle
stormwater runoff, which is a principal contributor to water pollution, both in
the Great Swamp watershed and across the country. The conventional way of
dealing with stormwater is to channel it as quickly as possible, via gutters and
culverts, to nearby waterways or wetlands. When this method is applied in
developed areas, it carries large amounts of chemicals from roads and lawns into
local streams.
Saving Streamways
Our
Saving
Streamways brochure offers local residents a variety of
information on how to protect the waterways that nourish and sustain the
Great Swamp.
The
GSWA Teacher's Resource Guide
This Teacher's
Guide to the Great Swamp Watershed is available on the GSWA website
in HTML format. If
you would like to obtain a hard copy of the Guide, please contact the
GSWA office at 973.966.1900 for your free copy.
Benefits of
Open Space
Benefits of
Open Space is a collection
of essays by noted conservationists from a variety of backgrounds
discussing the value of open spaces from biological,
economic, and psychological points of view.
What's for
free
Especially for teachers and
students, five detailed and profusely illustrated publications:
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America's Wetlands: Our
Vital Link Between Land and Water (an EPA publication);
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Beyond the Estuary: The
Importance of Upstream Wetlands (EPA);
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Forested Wetlands:
Functions, Benefits and the Use of Best Management Practices (U.S.
Department of Agriculture);
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Wetlands and Ground Water
in the U.S. (American Groundwater Trust, N.H. Audubon Society);
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and Wetlands Fact Sheets
(EPA).
Get them while they last -
limited numbers available - by visiting the GSWA offices at 36 Main
St., Madison. No mail or phone orders, please.
Newsletter
Recent issues of Across the
Watershed, the GSWA newsletter, can be had by clicking
here...
