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Nonpoint Source Outreach Digital Toolbox
Learn about, and contribute to, EPA's upcoming outreach product--tentatively titled the "Nonpoint Source Outreach Digital Toolbox."
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Available as a 100-page book and a 35-minute companion video, this set is designed to strengthen watershed outreach campaigns at all levels:
1) Getting in Step—A Guide for Conducting Watershed Outreach Campaigns (Publication # EPA 841-B-03-002) (PDF, 3.3 MB), and
2) Getting in Step—A Video Guide for Conducting Watershed Outreach Campaigns (Publication # EPA 841-V-03-001)
For copies of these resources, please contact the National Service Center for Environmental Publications via phone at 1-800-490-9198 or via the Web at www.epa.gov/ncepihom. The book is also available as a PDF download on EPA's website (link above). Please provide feedback on these resources by sending an email to Don Waye, outreach coordinator for the Nonpoint Source Control Branch at EPA Headquarters.
Nonpoint Source Pollution Information & Education Programs: Conference Proceedings (December 2003)
Best NPS Outreach Documents
These are the EPA Nonpoint Source Control Branch's recommendations for "best of the Web" for NPS outreach resources.
NPS Outreach Awareness Month materials - March 2003
Nonpoint Source Pointers (Factsheets)
This is a series of factsheets designed to help the public increase their
understanding and management of nonpoint source pollution in their community.
EPA
Watershed Outreach page
Example photographs of Best
Management
Practices (BMP's)
This pages give a short narrative and photo examples of best management
practices for various sources of nonpoint source pollution.
Clean Marinas - Clear Value -
Environmental
and Business Success Stories
Marinas and recreational boating are very popular uses of coastal water. The
growth of recreational boating, along with the growth of coastal development in
general, has led to a growing awareness of the need to protect the
environmental quality of our waterways. This study focuses on the econmic
benefits realized by marina managers who have implemented management measures
at their marinas.
Section 319 Nonpoint Source Success
Stories
This document demonstrates the successful implementation of the section 319
Clean Water Act Nonpoint Source program. The report provides examples of
successful solutions to a variety of water quality problems caused by nonpoint
source pollution.
Section 319 Success Stories:
Volume
II
This document is the second volume of Section 319 Success Stories. The
document gives examples of success stories that have come with the maturation
of state nonpoint source programs.
Section 319
Success Stories: Volume
III
This document is the third volume of Section 319 Success Stories.
It
contains
approximately two new stories per state, highlighting some of the
additional
successes achieved since the 1997 publication. These stories demonstrate
better-defined water quality improvements, as well as growing partnerships
and
funding sources, as state 319 programs expand and states learn
increasingly
more from past 319 demonstration projects.
Adopt Your Watershed
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constitute an endorsement by EPA of any organization's policies or activities,
or of any item for sale. EPA makes no guarantees regarding information, data or
links contained on non-EPA web sites. Please note that the following links will
transport you off the EPA server.