• After the Storm
  A citizens guide to understanding stormwater.

• Beach Information
  Beaches are a place to play, watch wildlife, fish, and swim. With beaches giving us so much, we have to protect them from a variety of potential problems. We can help you plan a trip to the beach, learn about beaches and the issues around them, and understand how we protect beaches.

• Case Studies of Local Source Water Protection Programs
  Examples of good local source water protection programs. These case studies represent a variety of approaches to protecting sources of drinking water supplies for a diverse group of communities that differ in size, geography, economic and social characteristics, and type of source water used (surface water, ground water, or both). What they have in common is a fairly comprehensive approach to source water protection that reflects a strong commitment to safeguarding the public's health. Communities interested in moving to source water protection can use them as references in designing their own programs.

• Characterizing Ecological Risks at the Watershed Scale
  This report summarizes workshop discussions related to estimating, describing, presenting and communicating watershed scale ecological risks.

• Clearinghouse for Information on Lakeshore Protection and Restoration
  This resources page provides practitioners links to key resources to protect and restore fragile lake shorelands and to promote better lakeshore stewardship by property owners.

• Community-Based Watershed Management: Lessons Learned from the National Estuary Program (NEP)
  Through this handbook, we describe the highly successful approaches to watershed management implemented by the 28 National Estuary Programs (NEPs). The NEPs, unique partnerships of EPA and numerous federal, state, and local organizations, work together to address coastal watershed management challenges.

• Consider the Source: A Pocket Guide to Protecting Your Drinking Water; Drinking Water Pocket Guide #3
  The guide is a pocket-sized outreach and assistance publications designed to heighten public awareness of the importance of protecting source waters used for drinking water. It includes a discussion of Clean Water Act (CWA)- and Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)-based regulatory and voluntary resources, tools, and management measures available to States and local governments and consumers, as well as accessible financing sources for enhancing existing protection programs and future plans. The guide also includes discussions of integrating Underground Injection Control (UIC) program efforts with the Source Water Assessment and Protection Programs, milestones for completion of source water assessments and transitioning to protection, and available best management practices for source water protection areas.

• Fish Consumption Advisories
  Get advice about eating fish.

• Getting In Step: A Guide for Conducting Watershed Outreach Campaigns
  The purpose of this guide is to provide the tools needed to develop and implement an effective outreach campaign as part of a state or local water quality improvement effort. Whether you're charged with developing a watershed management plan to restore impaired waters or protecting your local water resources for the future, this guide will help you understand the importance of reaching out to people and motivating them to act.

• Impervious Surface Growth Model
  Simple spreadsheet tool for estimating net impervious surface growth associated with development proposals based on the development location.

• Lead in Drinking Water
  Information on lead contamination.

• Make Your Home the Solution to Stormwater Pollution Brochure
  Customizable version. This short brochure is targeted directly to homeowners and provides tips on a wide variety of simple things that homeowner's can do to prevent stormwater pollution (EPA 833-B-03-003).

• Protecting Water Quality from Urban Runoff
  Protecting Water Quality from Urban Runoff fact sheet explains how urbanized areas affect water quality through increased runoff and pollutant loads and what homeowners can do to prevent stormwater pollution (EPA 841-F-03-003)

• Starting Out in Volunteer Water Monitoring
  This website describes the process of starting out in volunteer monitoring

• Surf Your Watershed/Adopt Your Watershed
  Local watershed information and directory of existing watershed groups.

• Underground Storage Tanks
  This website contains information on regulations, guidance, and program activities; links to "where you live"; policy guidance, compliance assistance, etc.

• Water Efficient Landscaping
  Water Efficient Landscaping is a booklet that describes the benefits of water-efficient, low-impact landscaping. It includes examples of successful projects, programs, and contacts (EPA 832-F-02-002)

• Watershed Management Case Study Success Stories
  This Clean Water Act Section 319 Nonpoint Source Success Stories Web site features stories about restoration efforts on nonpoint source-impaired which have led to documented water quality improvements.

• Water Monitoring Program
  EPA's Office of Water encourages all citizens to learn about their water resources and supports volunteer monitoring because of its many benefits. This website provides information on EPA's Volunteer (Water) Monitoring Program. It also provides links to a variety of guidance document and manuals on how to conduct volunteer monitoring of estuary, lakes, and wetlands.

• Water Quality Scorecard
  Tool to help local governments identify opportunities to remove barriers and revise and create codes, ordinances, and incentives to better protect water quality.

• Watershed Academy Web-Based Training: Distance Learning Modules on Key Watershed Management Topics
  Watershed Academy Web modules offer basic instruction on the many disciplines that make up watershed management. Modules run 1/2 to 2 hours each. These modules focused on "Watershed Change", describe both natural and human-induced changed in watersheds, and compare normal changes with changes of concern. 

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