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| This document – the Low Impact Development Stormwater Management Planning
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| and Design Guide – has been developed by Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) and
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| Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) as a tool to help developers,
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| consultants, municipalities and landowners understand and implement sustainable
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| stormwater planning and practices in the CVC and TRCA watersheds. The use of
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| sustainable stormwater planning and practices will help ensure the continued health
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| of the streams, rivers, lakes, fisheries and terrestrial habitats in our watersheds.
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| The guide is intended to provide engineers, ecologists and planners with up-to-date
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| information and direction on landscape-based stormwater management planning and
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| low impact development stormwater management practices such as rainwater
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| harvesting, green roofs, bioretention, permeable pavement, soakaways and swales.
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| The information contained in the guide will help practitioners adopt landscape-based
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| stormwater management approaches, and will help select, design, construct and
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| monitor more sustainable stormwater management practices.
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| | Site Conditions Road Right of Way Cover.jpg|[[Screening LID options|Site assessment]]|link=Screening LID options |
| | LSRCA planters.jpg|[[Stormwater planters|Stormwater planters]]|link=Stormwater planters |
| | TRCA YorkU grass swale 3.jpg|[[Swales]]|link=swales |
| | Pipe with connector.jpg|[[Underdrains|Underdrains]]|link=Underdrains |
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| This manual is not a stand-alone document. It is intended to augment the Ontario
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| Ministry of the Environment’s 2003 Stormwater Management Planning and Design
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| Manual, which provides design criteria for “conventional” end-of-pipe stormwater
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| management practices such as wet ponds and constructed wetlands. It is also a
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| companion document to other stormwater related guidance documents prepared by
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| CVC and TRCA. Amongst others, these include:
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| •Credit River Water Management Guidelines (CRWMG) (2007);
| | *[[Definition of Low Impact Development|What is low impact development?]] |
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| • Credit River Stormwater Management Criteria (currently under development;
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| will be an appendix to the CRWMG;
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| • Geomorphic and Meander Belt Guidelines (an appendix to the CRWMG);
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| • Floodline Mapping Guidelines (an appendix to the CRWMG);
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| • Environmental Impact Report Terms of Reference (an appendix to the
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| CRWMG);
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| • Technical Guidelines for Floodproofing, 1994 (an appendix to the CRWMG);
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| • Hydrologic/Hydraulic Modeling (an appendix to the CRWMG Guidelines);
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| • Guidelines for Hydrogeologic Studies (an appendix to the CRWMG);
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| • Headwater Assessment Guidelines (an appendix to the CRWMG).
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| TRCA
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| • Planning and Development Procedural Manual (2007);
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| • Stormwater Management Criteria (currently under development);
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| • Floodplain Management Guideline; and
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| • Stream Crossing Guidelines.
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