Stormwater Basin Retrofit Screening Tool

CRWP co-leads and participates in the Central Lake Erie Basin Collaborative, a network of organizations and initiatives working together for the health of Lake Erie watersheds. One of the Collaborative’s goals as a network is to attain and maintain the state’s water quality standards for northern Ohio streams, and this includes reducing the impacts of stormwater pollution on streams in developed watersheds. Stormwater basin retrofits can be a useful and cost-effective way to reduce the impacts of stormwater on Ohio’s streams. CRWP received funding on behalf of the Central Lake Erie Basin Collaborative through the Ohio EPA Section 319 Grant Program to develop a screening tool for stormwater basin retrofit opportunities that will help users identify potential retrofit opportunities and take next steps towards implementation of a retrofit appropriate for a particular site. The Collaborative worked with Sustainable Streams for the development of this tool, which can be used by the Collaborative and its partners.

 

The screening tool and guidance on how to use the tool can be found here.

 

Sustainable Streams presented a training on the use of the screening tool to the Central Lake Erie Basin Collaborative on August 17^th, 2021. A video recording of this training can be found here.

 

Sustainable Streams also developed a la carte, pre-recorded modules to supplement information presented at the training. These modules can also be found on CRWP’s YouTube webpage:

 

• Data Sources Module
• Drainage Area Module
• Pond ID Module
• Storage Volume Module

 

For any questions about this project, please contact Kimberly Brewster at kbrewster@crwp.org or 440-975-3870 ext. 1006.

 

Funders and Partners:  

This project was supported through the Ohio EPA Section 319 Grant Program*. In addition to support from the Ohio EPA Section 319 Grant Program, this project was also supported through matching funds from the George Gund Foundation, The Cleveland Foundation, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, Lake County Stormwater Management Department, The William Bingham Foundation, Chagrin River Watershed Partners, and Cuyahoga Soil and Water Conservation District.

 

* This product or publication was financed in part or totally through a Section 319 grant from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The contents and views, including any opinions, findings, or conclusions or recommendations, contained in this product or publication are those of the authors and have not been subject to any Ohio Environmental Protection Agency or United States Environmental Protection Agency peer or administrative review and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency or the United States Environmental Protection Agency and no official endorsement should be inferred.