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Dear James,
I am thrilled to announce that American Rivers has released Local
Water Policy Innovation: A Road Map for Community Based Stormwater
Solutions, a report to help you protect clean water and
healthy streams in your community.
Read the report today so you can enact good stormwater policies
in your community and solve this pervasive problem. Please also help us spread
the word by telling your friends, family and neighbors about this
report.
Stormwater is a leading cause of water pollution and the threats are
caused locally, seen locally, and are best addressed locally. This toolkit
explains how you can improve stormwater policies in your community and
capture the attention of policy makers. Local governments already have the
processes in place with zoning districts and ordinances, site plan reviews,
and comprehensive plans -- now it’s time to act.
Stormwater pollution begins when natural landscapes are altered,
changing the way water moves over the land. Hard structures such as parking
lots and rooftops prevent water from naturally soaking into the ground. The
rain water picks up pollution from streets and runs off into local streams.
A typical 10-acre parking lot will create 270,000 gallons of polluted
stormwater runoff after only one inch of rain, while our paved surfaces and
rooftops generate 16-times more runoff than the fields they replace.
Please download
the report today and forward this
email to others so they too can reduce pollution and
preserve natural landscapes so their communities can also
continue to enjoy parks and waterways.
Sincerely,
Gary Belan
Director of Healthy Waters Campaign
PS: Feel free to email me if you have
any questions or would like more information.
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