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− | <strong>MediaWiki has been successfully installed.</strong> | + | <strong>Welcome to the Low Impact Development Planning and Design Guide.</strong> |
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| + | This document – the Low Impact Development Stormwater Management Planning |
| + | and Design Guide – has been developed by Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) and |
| + | Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) as a tool to help developers, |
| + | consultants, municipalities and landowners understand and implement sustainable |
| + | stormwater planning and practices in the CVC and TRCA watersheds. The use of |
| + | sustainable stormwater planning and practices will help ensure the continued health |
| + | of the streams, rivers, lakes, fisheries and terrestrial habitats in our watersheds. |
| + | The guide is intended to provide engineers, ecologists and planners with up-to-date |
| + | information and direction on landscape-based stormwater management planning and |
| + | low impact development stormwater management practices such as rainwater |
| + | harvesting, green roofs, bioretention, permeable pavement, soakaways and swales. |
| + | The information contained in the guide will help practitioners adopt landscape-based |
| + | stormwater management approaches, and will help select, design, construct and |
| + | monitor more sustainable stormwater management practices. |
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| + | [//http://www.example.net/index.php/Preface: Preface] |
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| + | This manual is not a stand-alone document. It is intended to augment the Ontario |
| + | Ministry of the Environment’s 2003 Stormwater Management Planning and Design |
| + | Manual, which provides design criteria for “conventional” end-of-pipe stormwater |
| + | management practices such as wet ponds and constructed wetlands. It is also a |
| + | companion document to other stormwater related guidance documents prepared by |
| + | CVC and TRCA. Amongst others, these include: |
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| + | CVC |
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| + | •Credit River Water Management Guidelines (CRWMG) (2007); |
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| + | • Credit River Stormwater Management Criteria (currently under development; |
| + | will be an appendix to the CRWMG; |
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| + | • Geomorphic and Meander Belt Guidelines (an appendix to the CRWMG); |
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| + | • Floodline Mapping Guidelines (an appendix to the CRWMG); |
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| + | • Environmental Impact Report Terms of Reference (an appendix to the |
| + | CRWMG); |
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| + | • Technical Guidelines for Floodproofing, 1994 (an appendix to the CRWMG); |
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| + | • Hydrologic/Hydraulic Modeling (an appendix to the CRWMG Guidelines); |
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| + | • Guidelines for Hydrogeologic Studies (an appendix to the CRWMG); |
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| + | • Headwater Assessment Guidelines (an appendix to the CRWMG). |
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| + | TRCA |
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| + | • Planning and Development Procedural Manual (2007); |
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| + | • Stormwater Management Criteria (currently under development); |
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| + | • Floodplain Management Guideline; and |
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| + | • Stream Crossing Guidelines. |
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