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Protecting Water Resources through Local Controls and Practices: An Assessment Manual for New York Municipalities

The guide is designed to be an easy-to-read, user-friendly document for local elected leaders, municipal staff such as code enforcement officers and planners, and local appointed board members such as planning board, zoning board, and conservation board members.

This document has been posted in Adobe Acrobat format.  If you do not have an Adobe Acrobat reader on your computer you can download one from http://www.adobe.com.  If you can not view this document with an Adobe Acrobat Reader please contact David Zorn at dave.zorn@gflrpc.org or 585-454-0190 x14. 

Protecting Water Resources through Local Controls and Practices: An Assessment Manual for New York Municipalities

Cover and Table of Contents

Introduction

Section 1.  Water and Land: A Background

Section 2.  Nonpoint Assessment and Gap Analysis

Section 3.  What Can Be Done at the Local Level: Tools You Can Use

Section 4.  Examples of Local Law Revision: Middlesex, Ulysses, Groveland

Appendices

Appendix A - Organizations, Agencies and Entities Involved in Water Resource Protection

Appendix B - Glossary of terms

Appendix C - List of Acronyms

Appendix D - Model Law Overview

Appendix E - Sample Laws, Practices and Techniques

Appendix F - Municipal Nonpoint Assessment

Appendix G - Local Law Review Chart

 

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Last Modified:  November 03, 2011