Ohio Stormwater Association: Resources

The Ohio Stormwater Association will be providing technical information to stormwater managers throughout Ohio in the years to come. This includes the advancement of stormwater quality research and high-quality stormwater educational programs. Below, you can take a look at some of the resources we have just started to compile. This list will grow in the months to come and as we continue to expand as an organization.
If you have anything that you are looking for or would like to have added to this page, please contact the OSWA.

• Construction Guidance Information
• Illicit Discharge Detection & Elimination Manual: A Guidance Manual for Municipalities in the State of Ohio [ pdf ]
• Analysis of Enabling Legislation from a Multi-jurisdictional Watershed Perspective [ pdf ]
• International Stormwater BMP Database
• Agricultural BMP Database

Ohio and Regional Resources

• Ohio EPA – General Permits Page
• Ohio EPA – Storm Water Program
• Ohio EPA – Total Maximum Daily Load Program
• Ohio EPA – Water Quality Standards Program
• Ohio Department of Transportation  – Storm water page
• ODOT’s Supplemental Specification 832 – Temporary Sediment and Erosion Control
• Ohio Department of Natural Resources
• Ohio Revised Code
• American Rivers – Great Lakes
• Ohio Department of Development
• Ohio Lake Erie Commission
• Ohio Balanced Growth
• Ohio Farm Bureau
• Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission
• Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments
• Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency
• Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District
• Hamilton County Storm Water District
• Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission
• Miami Conservancy District
• Ohio – Kentucky – Indiana Regional Council of Governments
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Great Lakes Information

• Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

Center for Watershed Protection

• Center for Watershed Protection

U. S. Environmental Protection Agency

• EPA BMP Performance Urban tool
• EPA Resource List
• EPA Construction and Development Effluent Guidelines
• International BMP Database – User Guide for BMP data entry
• EPAs- Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan development Guidance 2009
• EPAs- Developing your Industrial Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan 2009
• EPA TMDLs to Storm Water Permits Handbook 2008
• EPA – Storm Water Program

General Storm Water Information

• • Federal Highway Administration – Ultra Urban BMPs
  • Grants
  • Low Impact Development
  • American Rivers
  • Green Infrastructure
  • Green Infrastructure Conservation Fund
  • Natural Resources Conservation Service
  • US Geological Survey
  • American Public Works Association
  • US Army Corp of Engineers
  • National Association of Flood & Stormwater Management Agencies
  • AASHTO Center for Environmental Excellence
  • National Municipal Stormwater Alliance