Changes

==Strategies==

==Strategies==

===Preserve stream buffers===

===Preserve stream buffers===

These include intermittent and ephemeral channels. Buffers provide filtration, infiltration, flood management, and bank stability benefits. Unlike stormwater ponds and other structural infrastructure, buffers are essentially a no capital cost and low maintenance form of infrastructure. In general, the literature recommends stream buffers for pollutant removal and support of aquatic and terrestrial riparian habitat <ref>Wenger, S. (1999) A Literature Review on Riparian Buffer Width, Extent, and Vegetation. Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia. Athens, GA</ref>. The benefits of buffers diminish when slopes are greater than 25%; steep slopes should not be counted as buffer <ref>Scheuleer, T (1995) The Architecture of Urban Stream Buffers. Watershed Protection Techniques. 4(1).</ref>

Streams include all sizes of rivers, creeks, and ephemeral channels. Landscape buffers provide filtration, infiltration, flood management, and bank stability benefits. Buffers are essentially a no capital cost and low maintenance form of infrastructure, recommended for pollutant removal and to support aquatic and terrestrial riparian habitat <ref>Wenger, S. (1999) A Literature Review on Riparian Buffer Width, Extent, and Vegetation. Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia. Athens, GA</ref>.  

 

The benefits of buffers diminish when slopes are greater than 25%, so steep slopes should not be counted as buffer <ref>Scheuleer, T (1995) The Architecture of Urban Stream Buffers. Watershed Protection Techniques. 4(1).</ref>

===Preserve areas of undisturbed soil and vegetation cover===  

===Preserve areas of undisturbed soil and vegetation cover===