Learn the Issues
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Preserve Open Space and Farmland: Abacoa, Jupiter, Florida
Abacoa demonstrates how compact community design and open space restoration can protect and restore habitats.
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Make Development Decisions Predictable and Fair: Green Tape Program, Silver Spring, Maryland
Montgomery County's Green Tape program is making redevelopment in Silver Spring, Maryland, faster and more cost effective by speeding the permitting process for development in the mixed-use city center.
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Direct Development Towards Existing Communities: Mizner Park, Boca Raton, Florida
Mizner Park demonstrates how suburban communities can create vital downtowns by redeveloping abandoned shopping centers.
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Encourage Community and Stakeholder Collaboration: Barrio Logan, San Diego, California
Residents of Barrio Logan took charge of the redevelopment process to bring new homes and amenities to this low-income neighborhood.
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Create a Range of Housing Choices Case Study: Benedict Commons - Aspen, Colorado
Benedict Commons is an affordable housing option in high-cost Aspen, Colorado.
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Smart Growth Streets and Emergency Response
This page describes how street networks and street design affect emergency response and links to resources for designing streets that work for emergency responders and communities' smart growth goals.
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Old North St. Louis: Sustainably Developing a Historic District
Report from a technical assistance project to help Old North St. Louis develop a vision for developing the historic neighborhood in an environmentally sustainable way.
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Enhancing Sustainable Communities With Green Infrastructure
This publication aims to help local governments, water utilities, nonprofit organizations, neighborhood groups, and other stakeholders integrate green infrastructure strategies into plans that can transform their communities.
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Location Efficiency and Housing Type
This study finds that housing type and location, along with energy-use features of homes and vehicles, have an important role to play in achieving greater energy efficiency.
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Proctor Creek Partner Initiatives
This page describes the different projects that Proctor Creek partners are taking on and contribute to Proctor Creek meeting their Urban Waters Partnership goals.
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Greater Philadelphia Area/Delaware River Watershed Brownfields Revitalization
This page provides information on the Brownfields Revitalization in the Greater Philadelphia Area/Delaware River Watershed area.
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Documents, Reports and Photographs for Virginia Casting Industries (Formerly: Intermet Radford Foundry) in Radford, Virginia
RCRA Corrective Action Intermet Archer Creek Foundry, Lynchburg VA
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Coal-Fired Power Plant Enforcement
This is the coal-fired settlement page.
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EPA Region 5
Key issues, activities, contact information, news and calendar for EPA's Office in Region 5, Serving Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin and 35 tribes.
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St. Louis River AOC
Describes history of the AOC, beneficial use impairments and sources of pollution.
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Urban Waters Voices
The page shows a series of video interviews featuring locally led efforts to restore urban waters in communities across the United States.
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Brownfields Revitalization/Phoenix Park
Phoenix Park in Camden, New Jersey, a formerly abandoned waterfront site, has been transformed into the 5.3-acre Phoenix Park.
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Program Updates - Meramec and Big River location
This page includes news relating to the Meramec and Big River Urban Waters partnership location, including information on the Meramec River Conservation Action Plan
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Urban Waters and the Middle Rio Grande/Albuquerque (New Mexico)
Middle Rio Grande/Albuquerque (New Mexico) of the Urban Waters Federal Partnership (UWFP) reconnects urban communities with their waterways by improving coordination among federal agencies and collaborating with community-led efforts.
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Urban Waters and the Grand River/Grand Rapids (Michigan)
Grand River/Grand Rapids (Michigan) of the Urban Waters Federal Partnership (UWFP) reconnects urban communities with their waterways by improving coordination among federal agencies and collaborating with community-led efforts