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Regional Response

Sustainable Watershed Action Team (SWAT)
Chicago Wilderness

SWAT Overview
Providing Technical Assistance to Local Governments by Deanna Glosser, Ph.D.
McHenry County SWAT Workshop, September 11, 2009

DeKalb County SWAT Workshop, September 19, 2009
Boone County SWAT Workshop-March 19, 2009
- Discussion-Mike Warner
- Integrated Water Resource Planning-Kerry Leigh
Lake County SWAT Workshop, September 17, 2008
- Workshop Agenda
- Speakers Bios
- Examples of Local & Regional Runoff Reduction & Infiltration Practices
- “Green” Infrastructure and Water Resources (USEPA)
- Workshop Powerpoint Presentations:
  - List of presentation titles
  - Green Infrastructure for Great Cities
  - Infiltration Practices Designed to Sustain Our Natural Hydrology
  - Implementing LID in Wisconsin
  - How Good Site Design Enables Infiltration Practices
  - The Nature of Water & Introduction to Infiltration
  - Low Impact Development Functions and Practice
  - Crystal Lake Watershed Stormwater Management Design Manual and Implementation Plan
- Workshop CD Materials
  - Workshop CD Materials
  - Crystal Lake Implementation Plan
  - Changing Development Rules in Your Community (Watershed Protection Techniques. 3(2): 657-660)
  - Changing Cost Perceptions: An Analysis of Conservation Design
  - A Comparison of Runoff Quantity and Quality from Two Small Basins Undergoing Implementation of Conventional-and Low-Impact-Development (LID) Strategies: Cross Plains, Wisconsin, Water Years 1999–2005 (USGS) (Large PDF download 5.66 MB)
  - Downstream Economic Benefits of Conservation Development by Douglas M. Johnston1; John B. Braden2; and Thomas H. Price, P.E.3
  - Blackberry Creek Watershed Alternative Futures Fiscal Impact Study Kane County, Illinois March 2004
  - McHenry County Subdivision Ordinance Conservation Design Standards and Procedures
  - Multifunctional Landscaping: Putting Your Parking Lot Design Requirements to Work for Water Quality-University of Illinois Extension
  - Egra Stone Installation Guidelines (porous pavement)
  - Rain Gardens: A How-To Manual for Homeowners by Roger Bannerman, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
  - An Introduction to Better Site Design. Watershed Protection Techniques 3(2): 623 – 632
  - Skinny Streets and One-sided Sidewalks: A Strategy for Not Paving Paradise Cedar Wells, City of Olympia, WA, Watershed Protection Techniques. 1(3): 135-137
  - Storm Water Best Management Practices Start at Home, University of Illinois Extension
  - Drainage Issues on the Rural-Urban Fringe, University of Illinois Extension
  - Blackberry Creek Watershed Alternative Futures Analysis September 2003
  - Green Alley Handbook, City of Chicago
  - Municipal Guide to Low Impact Development
Past SWAT Projects
- Aurora’s Countryside Vision Plan – recommendations for implementation, August 2004.
- McHenry County Conservation District – Parking Lot Project Overview, 2007
  - Exner Marsh Parking Lot Stormwater Improvements, May 2007
  - Marengo Park Stormwater Improvements, May 2007
  - Village of Union, McHenry County
    - 202 Comprehensive Plan
    - SWAT Final Report, May 2005
    - Exhibit 4, Stormwater Management
    - Exhibit 5, Water Quality Mitigation

For more information contact Amy Talbot at atalbot@cmap.illinois.gov or 312.386.8646