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(IR) NPSINFO: Email Listserver
Instructions on how to sign up for an email discussion list focused on nonpoint source pollution.
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(IR) Watershed Assessment, Tracking and
Environmental Results System (WATERS)
WATERS is a tool that unites water quality information previously available
only on individual state agency homepages and at several Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) websites. State and federal water quality managers, as
well as interested citizens, can use WATERS to quickly identify the status of
individual waterbodies of interest to them. It can also be used to generate
summary reports on all waters of a state.
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(IR) Web-Based Reach Indexing Tool (WebRIT-WATERS)
The Web-based Reach Indexing Tool (WebRIT-WATERS) is an interactive mapping procedure that allows users to view surface waters
within the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) and related information about these waters and their watersheds as context for georeferencing
their own water quality information to the NHD, including projects funded under Clean Water Act Section 319h (Nonpoint Source Implementation
Grants).
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(G) Draft Handbook for Developing Watershed Plans to Restore
and Protect Our Waters
This draft handbook is intended to help communities, watershed organizations, and state, local, tribal and federal
environmental agencies develop and implement watershed plans to meet water quality standards and protect water resources. It
was designed to help any organization undertaking a watershed planning effort, and it should be particularly useful to persons
working with impaired or threatened waters. EPA intends for this handbook to supplement existing watershed planning guides that
have already been developed by agencies, universities, and other nonprofit organizations.
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(G) News Notes
Nonpoint Source News-Notes is an occasional bulletin dealing with the condition
of the water-related environment, the control of nonpoint sources of water
pollution, and the ecosystem-driven management and restoration of
watersheds.
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(A) National Management Measures to Control Nonpoint Source Pollution
from Agriculture
National Management Measures to Control Nonpoint Source Pollution from Agriculture is a technical guidance and reference
document for use by State, local, and tribal managers in the implementation of nonpoint source pollution management programs. It contains
information on the best available, economically achievable means of reducing pollution of surface and ground water from agriculture
(Final Version - July 2003).
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(F) National Management Measures to Control Nonpoint Source Pollution from Forestry
This report helps forest owners protect lakes and streams from polluted runoff that can result from forestry activities. These scientifically sound
techniques are the best practices known today. The report will also help states to implement their nonpoint source control programs. Note: The
guidance is national in scope, so it does not address local or regional soils, climates, or forest types.
(H) National Management Measures to Control Nonpoint Source Pollution from Hydromodification
The primary goal of this guidance document is to provide technical assistance to states, territories, tribes, and the public for managing hydromodification activities and reducing associated NPS pollution of surface and ground water. The document describes examples of the implementation of practices that can be used to reduce NPS pollution from activities associated with channelization and channel modification, dams, and streambank and shoreline erosion
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(M) National Management Measures to Control Nonpoint Source Pollution from
Marinas and Recreational Boating
National Management Measures to Control Nonpoint Source Pollution from Marinas and Recreational Boating is a technical guidance and
reference document for use by State, local, and tribal managers in the implementation of nonpoint source pollution management programs. It
contains information on the best available, economically achievable means of reducing pollution of surface water runoff from marinas and
recreational boating. (Final Version)
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(U) National Management Measures to Control Nonpoint Source Pollution
from Urban Areas
This guidance helps citizens and municipalities in urban areas protect bodies of water from polluted runoff that can result from everyday activities. These scientifically sound techniques are the best practices known today. The guidance will also help states to implement their nonpoint source control programs and municipalities to implement their Phase II Storm Water Permit Programs.
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(W/RM) National Management Measures to Protect and Restore Wetlands and Riparian Areas for the Abatement of Nonpoint Source Pollution
This guidance document is intended to provide technical assistance to State, local, and tribal program managers and others on
the best available, economically achievable means of reducing nonpoint source pollution of surface and ground water through the
protection and restoration of wetlands and riparian areas, as well as the implementation of vegetated treatment systems.
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(G) Guidance Specifying Management Measures for Sources of Nonpoint Pollution in Coastal Waters
This is a comprehensive technical document on methods to abate and control nonpoint pollution in coastal areas. Primarily intended for State
and local watershed project staff.
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(G) Best NPS Documents
This is not a publication. It is a list of documents that the Nonpoint Source Control Branch at EPA headquarters has found to be especially
well done. The list includes agriculture documents, forestry documents, marina documents, urban documents, stream restoration
documents, nonpoint source monitoring documents, and funding documents.
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(G) Watershed Protection Techniques; Vol. 1, No. 2 Summer, 1994
A Quarterly Bulletin on Urban Watershed Restoration and the Protection Tools.
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(G) Enforceable State Mechanisms for the Control of Nonpoint Source Water Pollution
Published by the Environmental Law Institute, ELI Project #970300
This project was supported in part by Environmental Protection Agency Assistance Agreement No. X-825472-01.
The views expressed herein should not be attributed to EPA nor should any official endorsement be inferred.
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(G) Cleaner Water Through Conservation
This document explains the relationship between the quantity of water and its quality and discusses how developing
water-use efficiency programs can help states and local communities achieve cleaner water through conserving water.
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(G) Urbanization and Streams: Studies of Hydrologic Impacts
Hydrologic impacts may cause water quality problems such as sedimentation, increased temperatures, habitat changes,
and the loss of fish populations.
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(G) Section 319 Nonpoint Sources Success Stories
This document demonstrates the successful implementation of the section 319 Clean Water Act Nonpoint Source
program. The report provides examples of successful solutions to a variety of water quality problems caused by nonpoint
source pollution.
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(G) Section 319 Success Stories: Volume II
This document is the second volume of Section 319 Success Stories. The document gives examples of success stories
that have come with the maturation of state nonpoint source programs.
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(G) Section 319 Success Stories: Volume III
This document is the third volume of Section 319 Success Stories. It contains approximately two new stories per state, highlighting
some of the additional successes achieved since the 1997 publication. These stories demonstrate better-defined water quality
improvements, as well as growing partnerships and funding sources, as state 319 programs expand and states learn increasingly
more from past 319 demonstration projects.
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(M) Clean Marinas - Clear Value - Environmental and Business Success Stories
Marinas and recreational boating are very popular uses of coastal water. The growth of recreational boating, along with the growth of
coastal development in general, has led to a growing awareness of the need to protect the environmental quality of our waterways. This
study focuses on the econmic benefits realized by marina managers who have implemented management measures at their marinas.
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(U) Economic Benefits of Runoff Controls
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(U) Techniques for Tracking, Evaluating, and Reporting the Implementation of Nonpoint Source
Control Measures - Urban
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(W/RM) Ecological Restoration: A Tool To Manage Stream Quality
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(A) Techniques for Tracking, Evaluating, and Reporting the Implementation of Nonpoint Source
Control Measures - Agriculture
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(F) Techniques for Tracking, Evaluating, and Reporting the Implementation of Nonpoint Source
Control Measures - Forestry
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(E/O) Getting In Step: A Guide for Conducting Watershed
Outreach Campaigns
Available as a 100-page book and a 35-minute companion video, this set is designed to strengthen watershed outreach campaigns at all levels:
1) Getting in Step-A Guide for Conducting Watershed
Outreach Campaigns (Publication # EPA 841-B-03-002) (PDF, 3.3 MB), and
2) Getting in Step-A Video Guide for Conducting Watershed Outreach Campaigns (Publication # EPA 841-V-03-001)
For copies of these resources, please contact the National Service Center for Environmental Publications via phone at 1-800-490-9198
or via the Web at www.epa.gov/ncepihom. The book is also available as a PDF download
on EPA's website (link above). Please provide feedback on these resources by sending an email to
Don Waye, outreach coordinator for the Nonpoint Source Control Branch at EPA Headquarters.
The inclusion of a link on this page does not
constitute an endorsement by EPA of any organization's policies or activities,
or of any item for sale. EPA makes no guarantees regarding information, data or
links contained on non-EPA web sites. Please note that the following links will
transport you off the EPA server.
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(G) Unified Federal Policy for a
Watershed Approach to Federal Land and Resource Management
The Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy and the Interior, the
Environmental Protection Agency, theTennessee Valley Authority, and the Army
Corps of Engineer are adopting a unified Federal policy on watershed
management. The following policy has two main goals: (1) Use a watershed
approach to prevent and reduce pollution of surface and ground waters resulting
from Federal land and resource management activities; and (2) Accomplish this
in a unified and cost-effective manner. The policy was signed on October 18,
2000.
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(G) Putting the Pieces
Together: State Nonpoint Source Enforceable Mechanisms in Context
Published by the Environmental Law Institute, ELI Project #970302. Unlike the
two earlier ELI studies, Enforceable State Mechanisms for the Control of
Nonpoint Source Water Pollution (October 1997) and Almanac of Enforceable state
Laws to Control Nonpoint SourceWater Pollution (1998), which surveyed the
authorities existing in each State, this new document is a set of 8 case
studies designed to assess how enforceable mechanisms are used in practice.
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(G) Almanac of
Enforceable State Laws to Control Nonpoint Source Water Pollution
Published by the Environmental Law Institute, ELI Project #970301. This
document is a state-by-state report identifying enforceable provisions that can
apply to nonpoint source discharges in each state. It builds upon the study
entitled Enforceable State Mechanisms for the Control of Nonpoint Source Water
Pollution (link below). The views expressed herein should not be attributed to
EPA nor should any official endorsement be inferred.
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(G) Simple Things
You Can Do to Clean Up Our Urban Streams and the Chesapeake Bay (PDF) (2 pp, 592K, About PDF)
This brochure was created with EPA grant money (604-b). Learn more about this brochure through EPA's Nonpoint Source Outreach Toolbox.
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(W/RM) Stream Corridor
Restoration Handbook
This document was produced by the collective experience, skills, and techonology of 15 Federal agencies of the United States
government. It is a benchmark document that is being used by these agencies, as well as many others who are interested in
restoring the functions and values of the nation's stream corridors.
