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Brunswick Naval Air Station, Brunswick, ME: Redeveloping a Military Base in Small- town New England
Stormwater Performance-Based Credit
Center for Watershed Protection. 2017. Stormwater Performance-Based Credit. Crediting Framework Product #5 for the project Making Urban Trees Count: A Project to Demonstrate the Role of Urban Trees in Achieving Regulatory Compliance for Clean Water. Center for Watershed Protection, Ellicott City, MD. The Center for Watershed Protection Developed a Stormwater Performance Based Credit for tree planting. This national credit can be adopted by regulatory agencies who wish to offer a science-based credit that encourages greater use of tree planting for meeting stormwater management requirements. The credit quantifies an event-based reduction in runoff volume and nutrient and sediment loads associated with tree planting. This document provides an overview of the credit.
Pollutant Load Reduction Credit
Center for Watershed Protection. 2017. Pollutant Load Reduction Credit. Crediting Framework Product #3 for the project Making Urban Trees Count: A Project to Demonstrate the Role of Urban Trees in Achieving Regulatory Compliance for Clean Water. Center for Watershed Protection, Ellicott City, MD. The Center for Watershed Protection Developed a Pollutant Load Reduction Credit for tree planting. This national credit can be adopted by regulatory agencies who wish to offer a science-based credit that encourages greater use of tree planting for meeting total maximum daily load (TMDL) requirements. This is an annual credit for nutrient and sediment load reduction. This document provides an overview of the credit.
Documentation for Stormwater Performance-Based Credit
Center for Watershed Protection. 2017. Documentation for Stormwater Performance-Based Credit. Crediting Framework Product #7 for the project Making Urban Trees Count: A Project to Demonstrate the Role of Urban Trees in Achieving Regulatory Compliance for Clean Water. Center for Watershed Protection, Ellicott City, MD. The Center for Watershed Protection Developed a Stormwater Performance Based Credit for tree planting. This national credit can be adopted by regulatory agencies who wish to offer a science-based credit that encourages greater use of tree planting for meeting stormwater management requirements. The credit quantifies an event-based reduction in runoff volume and nutrient and sediment loads associated with tree planting. This document provides the documentation for the credit.
Design Specifications for Urban Tree Planting
Center for Watershed Protection. 2017. Design Specifications for Urban Tree Planting. Crediting Framework Product #8 for the project Making Urban Trees Count: A Project to Demonstrate the Role of Urban Trees in Achieving Regulatory Compliance for Clean Water. Center for Watershed Protection, Ellicott City, MD. The Center for Watershed Protection compiled best practices for design, preparation, planting, and maintenance of urban tree planting projects into a set of Design Specifications for Urban Tree Planting. These specifications can be incorporated as guidance by regulatory agencies adopting tree planting credits for stormwater or TMDL requirements to help ensure that trees planted can reach their full growth potential.
Relative and Absolute Reductions in Annual Water Yield and Non-Point Source Pollutant Loads of Urban Trees
Hynicka, J. and D. Caraco. 2017. Relative and Absolute Reductions in Annual Water Yield and Non-Point Source Pollutant Loads of Urban Trees. Crediting Framework Product #2 for the project Making Urban Trees Count: A Project to Demonstrate the Role of Urban Trees in Achieving Regulatory Compliance for Clean Water. Center for Watershed Protection, Ellicott City, MD. The Center for Watershed Protection led development of a water balance model to provide an improved method for quantifying the stormwater benefits of urban tree canopy. The water balance model estimates the mean annual runoff for a single tree at maturity planted over grass or impervious cover, compared to runoff from those same sites without trees. This report provides the documentation for the model.
Review of the Available Literature and Data on the Runoff and Pollutant Removal Capabilities of Urban Trees
Center for Watershed Protection. 2017. Review of the Available Literature and Data on the Runoff and Pollutant Removal Capabilities of Urban Trees. Crediting Framework Product #1 for the project Making Urban Trees Count: A Project to Demonstrate the Role of Urban Trees in Achieving Regulatory Compliance for Clean Water. Center for Watershed Protection, Ellicott City, MD. The Center for Watershed Protection reviewed a total of 159 publications to evaluate two research questions: 1) What is the effectiveness of urban tree planting on reducing runoff, nutrient and sediment? 2) How does effectiveness vary by species, over time, with differences in planting sites (e.g., distance from impervious cover or other trees, soil conditions, geographic location) and with different maintenance strategies? This report summarizes the results of the literature review.The Center for Watershed Protection reviewed a total of 159 publications to evaluate two research questions: 1) What is the effectiveness of urban tree planting on reducing runoff, nutrient and sediment? 2) How does effectiveness vary by species, over time, with differences in planting sites (e.g., distance from impervious cover or other trees, soil conditions, geographic location) and with different maintenance strategies? This report summarizes the results of the literature review.