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Publications and Related Links
Targeted Watersheds Grant Resources
EPA's Targeted Watersheds Grants Annual Report 2005
EPA Resources
- EPA Strategic Plan serves as the Agency's road map and guides us in establishing the annual goals we need to meet along the way. It helps us to measure how far we have come toward achieving our strategic goals and to recognize where we need to adjust our approaches and programs to achieve better results.
- Watershed Academy provides self-paced web-training modules and monthly webcast seminars.
- STOrage and RETrieval System for National Water Data (STORET) is a repository for water quality, biological, and physical data and is used by state environmental agencies, EPA and other federal agencies, universities, private citizens, and many others.
- Watershed Assessment, Tracking and Environmental Results (WATERS) uses EPA's standard mapping application to display water quality information about local waters. WATERS unifies information about water quality goals from EPA's Water Quality Standards Database with information about impaired waters from EPA's Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Database.
- Handbook for Developing Watershed Plans to Protect and Restore Our Waters 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.
- Watershed Plan Builder Tool walks you through a series of pages where you can input information about your watershed. The end product is a customized outline that can be used to develop a watershed management plan.
- Section 319 Nonpoint Source Success Stories feature waterbodies identified by states as being primarily nonpoint source-impaired and having achieved documented water quality improvements.
- Nonpoint Source Outreach Toolbox contains a variety of resources to help develop an effective and targeted outreach campaign.
- Nonpoint Source Pollution Education Resources lists EPA and non-EPA education resources for nonpoint source pollution.
- Watershed Links provides links to a wide variety of watershed information resources.
- Low Impact Development (LID) is an approach to land development (or re-development) that works with nature to manage stormwater as close to its source as possible.
- Water Quality Models and Tools provides access to a number of specialized models and tools for water quality managers.
- Source Water Protection provides information on protecting drinking water resources.
- Brownfields and Land Revitalization provides information on the Brownfields Law, US EPA Brownfields Grants, technical tools and resources as well as information on brownfields projects across the county.