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www.iswm .ca is an online database of Innovative and Low Impact Stormwater Management Practices in Ontario, developed by the Toronto Region Conservation for the Ontario Ministry of Environment. Iswm.ca is a free, publicly accessible archive for Municipalities, Developers, Consultants and others to share information regarding these types of practices. Register now to submit your projects and have them showcased to other professionals and organizations in the world of stormwater management. Your project will have its own project page where you can attach company logos, drawings and photographs, and generally get the word out there on the ground breaking work your organization is doing. The projects and practices featured on iswm.ca will be paving the way for the future of stormwater management in Ontario. About Low Impact Development During the past three decades, there has been an evolution in stormwater management. In the early 1980s, stormwater management focused solely on controlling the quantity of runoff. By the early 1990s, water quality became an additional focus. Today, with improvements in watershed management and our understanding of watersheds, stormwater management addresses a broad suite of issues including stream morphology and the protection of groundwater resources, fish habitat, and terrestrial habitat (primarily wetlands). Today, Low Impact Development has been adopted as a stormwater management strategy by many municipalities across the United States. It is a stormwater management approach and a set of practices that is used to reduce runoff and pollutant loadings by managing the runoff as close to its source as possible. LID typically uses multiple practices on a site and can be used both to reduce the impacts of both development and redevelopment on water resources. With new development, LID is used to achieve the goal of maintaining or closely replicating the predevelopment hydrology of the site. In areas where development has already taken place, LID can be used as a retrofit practice to reduce runoff volumes, pollutant loadings, and the overall impacts of existing developments on receiving waters.Click Here for more information on these technologies, or visit www.sustianabletechnologies.ca for detailed descriptions, and technology evaluations.
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