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The Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange
This website is the hub for a network of GSI professionals across North America that houses a GI library, program information, and publications.
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Soil Geography
This website is a hub for maps and databases for soils throughout the United States.
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Chicago Wilderness Alliance: Green Vision Initiatives
This website provides a framework for seven goals with the vision of guiding, tracking, and implementing regional progress.
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Barriers and Gateways to Green Infrastructure
This report conveys results from a survey conducted by the Clean Water American Alliance to gauge green infrastructure barriers encountered by people and organizations, as well as responses from those entities for potential methods to overcome the barriers.
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Cuándo y Cómo Muestrear los Suelos
This guide provides information on how and when to test soil and how to understand the results.
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When and How to Take a Soil Test
This guide provides information on how and when to test soil and how to understand the results.
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2022 Illinois State Water Plan
This report addresses a list of identified critical issues and recommends actions to address them.
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Soil Testing
This website provides detailed information explaining the importance of testing soil, how to perform the tests, and what to do with the results.
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Geologic Road Map of Illinois: Surface Deposits and Landscapes
This statewide map depicts surface deposits and landforms left by the Wisconsin, Illinois, and pre-Illinois glaciation episodes and in areas unaffected by glaciers.
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Getting to Green: Paying for Green Infrastructure Financing Options and Resources for Local Decision-Makers
This guide provides guidance for decision-makers on how to fund Green Stormwater Infrastructure.
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Surficial Geologic Mapping for Green Infrastructure Siting and Suitability
This paper contains abstracts from presentations by geological map authors, program managers, and professionals at the 2019 Geologic Mapping Forum in Minneapolis.
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Illinois Water Well (ILWATER) Interactive Map
This interactive map shows the official record of all wells drilled in Illinois since the late 1800s.
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Green Infrastructure Maintenance
This YouTube video series covers practices for successful Green Infrastructure maintenance.
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National Green Infrastructure Certification Program Body of Knowledge
This library of resources developed by the NGICP includes materials applicable to the construction and implementation of Green Infrastructure.
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Elements of a Green Infrastructure Maintenance Business Plan
This report discusses a stakeholder-driven process for determining Green Infrastructure maintenance plans.
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Green City, Clean Waters: Green Infrastructure Maintenance Manual
This guide, developed for the city of Philadelphia, provides standard procedures for successfully maintaining Green Stormwater Infrastructure.
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Increasing Funding and Financing Options for Sustainable Stormwater Infrastructure
This guide examines a variety of funding options for water infrastructure and for Green Stormwater Infrastructure investment, from federal and state programs to local government support.
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A Guide to Assessing Green Infrastructure Costs and Benefits for Flood Reduction
This guide presents a process for communities to follow to assess the costs and benefits of Green Stormwater Infrastructure.
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Green Infrastructure Municipal Resources and Funding Opportunities
This document lists a variety of municipal resources and funding opportunities for green infrastructure.
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CADD images for individual best management practices
This website is a hub for CADD files and images for best management practices of bioretention, infiltration, ponds, sand filters, and swales.
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Model Stormwater Management Ordinance
This document provides model language for communities looking to modify ordinances for stormwater management.
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A Design Guide for Green Stormwater Infrastructure Best Management Practices: Scalable Solutions to Local Challenges
This tool helps users understand implementation opportunities for green infrastructure, how to determine which practices to utilize, and how to make cost-effective, informed decisions.
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Watershed Management Ordinance Technical Information
This website is a hub for watershed management ordinance technical information within the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago area.
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Watershed Management Ordinance and Infiltration/Inflow Control Program
This website contains information related to Cook County's Watershed Management Ordinance and Infiltration/Inflow Control Program.
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Performance and Whole Life Costs of Best Management Practices and Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems
This tool allows users to explore performance and costs of Green Stormwater Infrastructure.
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U.S. EPA National Stormwater Calculator: Cost Module & Mobile Web App
This presentation explains the cost estimation module for the US EPA National Stormwater Calculator.
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Green Infrastructure Co-Benefits Valuation Tool
This tool provides a framework to support analysis of the costs and benefits associated with various green infrastructure practices.
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Community-enabled Lifecycle Analysis of Stormwater Infrastructure Costs (CLASIC) Tool
This tool uses a lifecycle cost framework to support stormwater infrastructure decisions on extent and combinations of green, hybrid green-gray and gray infrastructure practices.
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National Stormwater Calculator
This tool estimates a specific site's annual rainfall and frequency of runoff to provide guidance for green infrastructure design.
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Available Stormwater Models and Selecting a Model
This website is a hub of available stormwater models with information on choosing the model most appropriate for a specific Green Stormwater Infrastructure project.
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GIP-SWMM: A new Green Infrastructure Placement Tool coupled with SWMM
This paper discusses the development of a tool for identifying green infrastructure placement paired with SWMM.
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Sewer Atlas
This website provides guidelines for purchasing sewer atlas information from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.
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Guide to Flood Susceptibility and Stormwater Planning
This guide presents methods for utilizing data to assess flooding issues, inform about green infrastructure, and inform land use decisions.
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Tipping Point Planner
This tool allows users to connect data to local decision-making processes.
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Green Infrastructure Spatial Planning Model
This tool provides a method to facilitate spatial planning at a citywide scale with additional assessments to be performed at smaller scales.
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Integrated Hydrological Modelling Software
This tool allows users to analyze water processes with a framework for integrated modeling.
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Storm Water Management Model (SWMM)
This tool lets users explore planning, analysis, and design related to stormwater runoff, combined and sanitary sewers, and other drainage systems.
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EnviroScape®
These environmental education models encourage learning at all ages about local water resources and pollution prevention.
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How to Use an Amoozemeter for Soil Ksat
This video explains how to use an Amoozemeter to measure saturated hydraulic conductivity in soils (Ksat).
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Water Table Maps
This tool is a hub for water table data for any specific site in Illinois.
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Illinois Groundwater Resources
This interactive map and tool shows Illinois aquifer systems and wells that extract groundwater from them.
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Regional Flood Susceptibility Index
This map shows urban flood susceptibility in the greater Chicago region.
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RiskFactor
This tool allows users to input a specific location to determine risk projections related to flood, fire, and heat.
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Topographic Wetness Index
This tool and interactive map allows users identify stormwater runoff patterns, areas of increased soil moisture, and potential areas of ponding.
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Topographic Wetness Index: A GIS Approach to Identifying Areas At Risk of Urban Flooding
This presentation provides an overview and demonstration of the Topographic Wetness Index.
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USGS EROS Archive – Aerial Photography – Aerial Photo Mosaics
This website houses USGS historic aerial imagery.
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ArcHydro Modeling Outputs, 2017
This website contains ArcHydro modeling data from five pilot communities in the Chicago metropolitan area from a 2017 study geared toward developing a local stormwater planning approach.
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Arc Hydro: GIS for water resources
This website provides an overview of ArcHydro tools, capabilities, and uses, as well as links to resources and webinars.
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Community Data Snapshots
This website provides data from the 2022 Community Data Snapshot in the Chicago metropolitan area. This snapshot includes data on demographics, housing, land use, employment, transportation, revenue, and water.
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Community Survey Tool
This tool provides a framework for conducting community surveys, including e-learning resources and questionnaire templates.
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Illinois Flood Maps
This website contains flood insurance rate maps, studies, and other digital products for every county in Illinois.
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Vulnerability Assessments
This website contains trainings, publications, tools, and other resources related to coastal vulnerability assessment and climate change adaptation.
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How are UTM coordinates measured on USGS topographic maps?
This website explains how Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates are measured on USGS topographic maps.
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Illinois County GIS Resources
This website provides links to GIS resources and websites by county in Illinois.
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Member Regional Councils
This website provides a list of regional councils in Illinois.
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Soils
This website provides the required forms, manuals, and guides needed to comply with Illinois Department of Transportation policies related to soil testing and reporting.
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Evaluation of engineered soils for bioretention areas containing dredged Illinois River sand, compost, biosolids, and pyrolyzed biosolids
This academic paper evaluates the feasibility of enhancing dredged soils for use in bioslopes, bioswales, and rain gardens. The paper also compares the properties of these engineered soils to different types of biosolids to evaluate their suitability.
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Soils
This website focuses on the role of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in partnering with private landowners across the United States to conserve and improve soil, offering technical assistance for soil conservation practices, providing information on soil health and science, and facilitating assistance for farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners through their local NRCS field offices.
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Soil Quality Indicator Sheets
This guide is a set of informational documents designed for conservationists and soil scientists, providing guidance on assessing soil health through physical, chemical, and biological indicators.
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Soil Basics
This website provides an introduction to soil basics, including how soils form, different types of soil, and their properties and functions.
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Soil
This website provides various articles and resources on soil basics and the significance of soil health. It also includes steps on how homeowners can collect and test their own soil samples.
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Aerial Photography
This website is a hub for the USDA Geospatial Enterprise Operations, including customer services, data management and provisioning, data inspection, enhancement, and delivery, and technology coordination and project execution.
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Cook County Viewer
This website is a hub for a wide range of Cook County maps.
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Topographic map symbols
This resource explains how to read topographic maps and symbols.
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How to read Illinois topographic maps
This publication explains how to read Illinois topographic maps.
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Topographic Maps
This website is a hub for national topographic maps.
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Land Use Inventory
This website and interactive map provides land use data for the greater Chicago area.
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High-Resolution Land Cover, NE Illinois and NW Indiana, 2010
This website is a hub for high-resolution land cover covering a 10-county study area of northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana.
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High-Resolution Land Cover, Cook County, 2010
This website is a hub for high-resolution land cover in Cook County, Illinois.
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Land Cover Data for Illinois
This website is a hub of land cover data across Illinois.
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National Land Cover Database (NLCD)
This website identifies federal agencies that coordinate and generate national land cover data and lists a selection of accessible products.
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Topographic Lidar Surveys
This website provides information on applications of topographic lidar surveys and associated mapping tools and resources.
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Quadrangle Maps
This tool displays quadrangle maps available for Illinois.
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ISGS Map Series Information
This website provides summaries and applications of different mapping tools, as well as information on how to purchase or download these tools.
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Illinois Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
This website provides geospatial datasets and mapping applications for Illinois.
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Great Lakes Mapping Coalition
This website contains mapping tools, publications, and other resources from the Great Lakes Geologic Mapping Coalition.
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National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program
This website provides comprehensive resources for mapping, modeling, and other geologic data.
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Retrofitting urban land through integrative, subsoils-based planning of green stormwater infrastructure: a research framework
This academic paper provides a framework for designing more impactful green stormwater infrastructure by integrating native subsoil performance and surface retrofitting into planning efforts.
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Widespread loss of intermediate soil horizons in urban landscapes
This academic paper provides an analysis of soil changes from pre-urban conditions in eleven cities and details the causes of these changes.
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Illinois Suite of Maps
This website is a hub for Illinois soils maps developed by NRCS.
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Soil Education
This website is a hub for soil-related educational resources for students.
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The Education Store: 4-H Soils and Water Conservation
This online store offers youth education resources and instructor guides on soil and water science. Guides are available for 3 different levels, encompassing grades 3-12.
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Step-by-Step Guide to Integrating Community Input into Green Infrastructure Projects
This guide outlines steps to effectively engage community members in the implementation of a green infrastructure project and incorporate community feedback into the project.
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RainReady
This website provides resources and guidelines on urban flooding, green infrastructure, and flood risk assessment. It also details current "Rain Ready" projects in Chicago and provides standards and guidance for new projects.
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Digital Coast Trainings
This website contains training resources on over 150 different topics and case studies, including water quality, climate change mitigation, coastal resilience, green infrastructure, sustainable and equitable planning, and more.
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Integrating Green Infrastructure
This paper discusses the benefits of a green infrastructure implementation plan in Chicago and outlines a policy framework for achieving these goals.
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Community & Economic Development
This website provides numerous programs, resources, and contacts for community and economic development. Strategies on this website include local government education, community planning, workforce development, and sustainable community building.
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Landscape Drainage for Homeowners
This blog discusses the underlying causes of poor drainage around homes and in yards, and introduces solutions to reduce or prevent flooding and erosion.
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Urban Forest Systems and Green Stormwater Infrastructure
This guide discusses the impacts of trees on urban stormwater management and outlines various strategies for effective urban forest management.
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Prairie Up: An Introduction to Natural Garden Design
This book shares detailed approaches to more naturalistic planting and landscape maintenance for gardeners and homeowners.
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Investigating the Stormwater: Quantity and Quality Impacts of Urban Trees
This webinar details how urban trees impact stormwater quality and outlines best management practices for urban forestry.
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Naturalistic Garden
This article discusses tips and tricks for maintaining a more naturalistic landscape at home.
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Talking Headways Podcast: What We Can Do To Depave Cities
This podcast discusses methods for reducing stormwater runoff in cities, how to incorporate more natural rainwater harvesting systems in urban design, and how to retrofit existing systems for better stormwater management.
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SoilWeb Apps
These interactive maps display nationwide soil surveys and regional trends in soil types and properties.
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Unlock the Secrets in the Soil
This YouTube channel contains short informational videos on the basics of soil health, case studies, and conversations with different professionals.
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NRCS National Soil Survey Center
This YouTube channel contains webinars, informational videos, and tutorials on different soil case studies and analysis tools.
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Green Values Stormwater Management Calculator
This calculator allows users to choose properties and evaluate what BMPs meet the volume capacity capture goal.
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Tackling Barriers to Green Infrastructure: An Audit of Municipal Codes and Ordinances
This book presents a variety of barriers to green infrastructure implementation from outdated municipal codes and provides guidelines to overcome them.
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Urban Street Design Guide: Stormwater Management
This website is a hub for urban street stormwater management infrastructure practices.
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Urban Street Design Guide: Pervious Pavement
This website details general guidelines for siting and installing permeable pavement along urban corridors.
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Urban Street Design Guide: Bioswales
This website details general guidelines for siting and installing bioswales along urban corridors.
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The Southern Lake Michigan Rain Garden Manual
This manual details the full process of installing a rain garden.
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A Closer Look at Rain Gardens
This blog provides an explanation of rain gardens, how they work, and where to site them.
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The Green Edge: How Commercial Property Investment in Green Infrastructure Creates Value
This report explains how value is built through the investment in green infrastructure on commercial properties.
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Report for the Urban Flooding Awareness Act
This report for the Urban Flooding Awareness Act details urban flooding in Illinois and technologies that can mitigate the effects.
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Overcoming Barriers to Green Infrastructure
This website explains common barriers to the implementation and success of green infrastructure projects.
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Green Infrastructure Partnership Opportunity Program
This website provides information on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago's Green Infrastructure Partnership Opportunity Program.
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Illinois Green Infrastructure Grant Program for Stormwater Management
This website provides information on the Illinois Green Infrastructure Grant Opportunities reimbursement program.
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Green Infrastructure Funding Opportunities
This website provides up-to-date funding opportunities for green infrastructure projects.
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StormStore
This website connects users to resources needed for stormwater credit trading.
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Exceeding Intent: A Precedent Library of Exemplary Green Stormwater Infrastructure Projects
This library of case studies showcases a variety of exemplary built green stormwater infrastructure projects.
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Low Impact Development Toolkit
This toolkit presents built examples and guidelines to low impact design strategies for stormwater management.
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Green Infrastructure Modeling Toolkit
This website is a hub for green infrastructure modeling tools.
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Green Infrastructure Modeling Tools
This website explains what green infrastructure modeling is, why it's important, how to choose a model, and sizing and cost spreadsheets. A list of models is also provided.
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Illinois Urban Manual
This website is a BMP technical reference hub for those involved in construction site soil erosion and sediment control.
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EPA Stormwater Requirements
This website explains general information on federal storm water requirements through the NPDES program.
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NPDES Stormwater Program
This website provides information on and access to National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) programs.
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Minnesota Stormwater Manual
This website provides information on a wide variety of stormwater topics including control practices, regulations, and models.
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Rainscaping Education Program
This program provides training and resources on rainscaping practices that can be installed in residential settings or small-scale public spaces projects.
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Vacant to Vibrant
This book offers practical insights from a pilot project in 3 cities that created green infrastrcture networks.
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Building the Red Oak Rain Garden
This webinar discusses the design and installation of a large, built rain garden on a university campus.
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Bluethumb Guide to Raingardens
This book provides information on siting, sizing, building, and maintaining rain gardens, a list of rain garden plants, and several planting plans.
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Diversity, Equity, and Green Infrastructure
This webinar discusses the results of a study exploring the relations between diversity, equity, and green infrastructure and stormwater management.
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Stormwater@Home
This series of short videos introduces the viewer to stormwater and various practices that can be installed to manage it.
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Illinois State Water Survey
This website is the hub of research, data, publications, and news from the Illinois State Water Survey.
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Iowa Stormwater Education Partnership
This website is a hub for information and resources involving Green Stormwater Infrastructure produced by the Iowa Stormwater Education Partnership.
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Landscape Design with Natives
This webinar provides guidance on designing native plant landscapes with an introduction to a selection of perennials, shrubs, and trees.
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IISG Brochures
This brochure series provides easy-to-follow guides to native plant design and installation for a wide variety of site conditions.
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Planting in a Post-Wild World
This book explores the design and implementation of plant communities to mimic naturally occurring processes and to create a resilient landscape.
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Illinois Native Plant Nurseries
This website provides names, addresses, and contact information for native plant nurseries across Illinois and nearby states.
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Woody Invasives of the Great Lakes Collaborative
This website is a hub for information and resources related to woody invasive plants and alternatives to replace them in landscape trades.
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Midwest Invasive Plant Network
This website is a hub for information, resources, and upcoming events involving midwestern invasive species.
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Management of Invasive Plants and Pests of Illinois
This guide provides identification profiles of invasive plants and pests, the ways to control them, and how to minimize their spread.
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Jumping Worms: A New Invader in Illinois Webinar
This webinar discusses invasive Jumping Worms, the problems they pose to natural and built landscapes, and ways to minimize their spread.
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Landscape Invasives and Native Alternatives
This webinar presents native alternatives to invasive plants commonly used in the landscaping trades.
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Pruning Deciduous Shrubs
This webinar presents a series of pruning practices to ensure healthy and maintained shrubs in the garden.
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Tips for Cleaning up the Garden in Fall
This podcast provides an end-of-season garden maintenance task list to prepare for winter months.
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Identification and Control of Woody Invasive Plants
This webinar explains how to identify common woody invasive plants in Illinois and what you can do to control them.
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Is this a Weed? Garden Invaders, Welcome Guests and Photo-bombers
This blog explains the difference between weeds to pull and weeds that can stay, as well as general guidelines to best rid gardens of unwanted weeds.
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The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden
This book provides a large selection of planting designs and explains design practices that minimize maintenance inputs.
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Soils, Climate, and Carbon
This webinar discusses why Midwest soils contain large amounts of organic matter and changes that have occurred over the last 150 years.
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Illinois State Geological Society
This website is a hub for Illinois State Geological Survey research, data, publications, maps, and experts.
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USDA Web Soil Survey
This website provides access to soil data produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey for local use planning.
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Shade Gardens: Native Plants and Ecological Benefits
This webinar explains the ecological benefits of planting natives underneath trees and explores shade-tolerant plant options.
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Planting for Pollinators
This webinar explores what native plants to use to attract a variety of pollinators to a garden.
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New Perennial Garden Theory
This webinar provides guidance on designing, installing, and maintaining native plant landscapes.
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Planting: A New Perspective
This book explains the planting design process of a renowned designer and includes species profiles of dozens of selected plant species.
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Design in the Terrain of Water
This collection of essays provides insight to and global examples of water-centric design at site, neighborhood, and regional scales.
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Valuing the public benefits of green roofs
This paper discusses a choice experiment survey to estimate the public benefits for a proposed green roof program.
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A novel computational green infrastructure design framework for hydrologic and human benefits
This paper describes a novel computational green infrastructure (GI) design framework that integrates stormwater management requirements with criteria for human wellbeing.
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Cost/benefit assessment of green infrastructure: Spatial scale effects on uncertainty and sensitivity
This paper provides a quantitative and comparative analysis of GI benefits, including nutrient uptake from stormwater and air pollutant deposition. Economic costs and benefits of GI are assessed using two metrics, benefit-cost ratios and nutrient removal costs, at three scales: household, subwatershed, and watershed.
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Green Infrastructure, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, and Human Health: A Review.
This review explores the published evidence regarding the relationships between green infrastructure and human health.
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Cities as hydro-geologic terrain: Design research to transform urban surfaces
This paper argues to insert hydro-terrain thinking to the paved surfaces of cities, instantiating the concept of “rain terrain” that links hydrologic performance across scales, from the raindrop to the region.
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A qualitative assessment tool for ecologically based stormwater systems
This paper discusses a qualitative ecological health assessment that was developed for ecologically designed stormwater systems. The aim was to enhance post-implementation monitoring and maintenance.
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Modeling Field-Scale Bioretention Cells with Heterogeneous Infiltration Media
This paper investigates the ability of a one-dimensional model to simulate water movement through a heterogeneous bioretention cell.
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Development of a Bioretention Cell Model and Evaluation of Input Specificity on Model Accuracy.
This paper describes work to determine the level of input specificity in hydraulic parameters needed to accurately estimate water movement through a bioretention cell.
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Soils Lab
This website features research that evaluates how human activities can enhance or compromise soil services to human societies.
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Monitoring and Documenting the Performance of Stormwater Best Management Practices
This paper discusses a project that conducted real-time monitoring on a bioswale and two patches of permeable concrete and selected 15 rain gardens for infiltration testing and three of those for additional synthetic drawdown testing and documented the results.
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Laboratory analysis on the surface runoff pollution reduction performance of permeable pavements
This paper reveals how different factors influence the ability of permeable pavement layers to remove pollutants and to provide quantitative understanding of these influences.
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The role of reliability in characterizing green stormwater infrastructure in urban areas
This dissertation addresses how uncertainty in environmental and anthropogenic factors affects green infrastructure performance at modular, systemic, and policy levels. It offers a new perspective on green infrastructure performance, using an interdisciplinary, risk-based approach to analyze how it can be better integrated into the urban landscape.
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Predicting rain garden performance under back-to-back rainfall conditions using stochastic life-cycle analysis
This paper evaluates clayey native soil rain garden performance using stochastic life-cycle analysis framework. It uses the concept of ‘fragility’ to describe the probability of failure, and evaluates it using a Monte Carlo-based approach.
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A game theory analysis of green infrastructure stormwater management policies
This paper uses a cooperative game theory framework to investigate the potential impacts of different policy strategies used to incentivize green infrastructure installation
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Reliability-Based Approach to Investigating Long-Term Clogging in Green Stormwater Infrastructure
This paper proposes a probabilistic method to determine optimal maintenance timeframes to mitigate the impact of clogging for rain gardens under short duration storms.
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Integrating Green Infrastructure Into Stormwater Policy: Reliability, Watershed Management, and Environmental Psychology as Holistic Tools for Success
This paper addresses how uncertainty in environmental and anthropogenic factors affect green infrastructure performance and integration.
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Rain Garden Performance as a Function of Native Soil Parameters
This paper uses fragility curves to describe spatial variability of rain garden performance based on installation in various native soils.
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Willingness-to-Volunteer and Stability of Preferences between Cities: Estimating the Benefits of Stormwater Management
This paper uses a choice experiment survey in two major U.S. cities – Chicago, Illinois and Portland, Oregon – to estimate the benefits of stormwater management improvement in terms of stated willingness to pay money and willingness to volunteer time.
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Building an Equitable and Just Green Infrastructure Strategy in the North Central Region
This white paper discusses five key recommendations for communities seeking to implement GI programs that incorporate equity.
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