- Conducted comprehensive watershed management fact-finding: Received presentations from twenty-four speakers.
- Completed request for proposals (RFP) process to retain a consulting engineer, especially to assist in preparing a watershed management plan.
- Completed watershed management plan, May 1997.
- Plan adopted by all Ten Towns municipalities, October 1998.
- Completed analysis of best existing municipal environmental ordinances.
- Obtained grants totaling $847,900 for watershed management activities.
- Established water quality monitoring program with assistance from a volunteer "stream team."
- Completed individual riparian corridor buffer analysis for each Ten Towns municipality.
- Established mini-grant program for municipalities to analyze vacant sub-dividable land and municipal environmental ordinances vis-à-vis first round "model" ordinances.
- Assisted Great Swamp Watershed Association in preparing a video on the importance of preserving the Great Swamp Watershed.
- Conducted seminars on watershed management.
- Proceeding with best management practices (BMPs)/demonstration projects
- Retrofitted stormwater detention basin
- State-of-the-art grass swale filtration system
- Stormwater bioretention system
- Developed seven stream corridor buffer projects, three projects completed in 2001.
- Established macroinvertebrate water quality monitoring program (2000)./s Program continues on an annual basis.
- Completed detailed environmental assessment of Great Swamp streams.
- Loantaka Brook (completed 2000)
- Black Brook (completed 2001)
- Great Brook (completed 2001)
- Primrose Brook (completed 2004)
- Passaic River (planned 2006)
- Completed preparation of model environmental ordinances and recommendation to Ten Towns municipalities.
- Conducted "first flush" analysis of four storm events in streams of the Great Swamp.
- Developed educational fact sheets for distribution to municipalities and other organizations:
- Great Swamp Watershed Management Plan
- Bioretention Systems for Stormwater Management
- Stormwater Management with Filtration Systems
- Stormwater Management
- Watershed Management
- Detention Basin Retrofit
- Established educational display on Ten Towns Committee activities and watershed management for used at public meetings.
- Established Ten Towns web site: tentowns.org
- Conducted program of meeting with municipal governing bodies to report on Ten Towns activities and discuss adoption of model environmental ordinances.
- Established program for presentation/display of educational materials on watershed management at municipal libraries in the Great Swamp watershed.
- Prepared an environmental study of lakes and ponds (2001).
- Initiated project to develop an environmentally sensitive road design standards.
- Developed comprehensive scope of activities including education, upgraded water quality monitoring and construction of best management practices funded by a $299,300 EPA grant.
- Established plan review subcommittee to assist in revision of environmentally sensitive development applications.
- Presented environmental achievement awards to individuals and municipal and county governments (June 2001).
- Established expanded water monitoring program including first monitoring within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuge (2001-2002).
- Completed second environmental study of lakes and ponds in the watershed to provide comparable data over two years.
- Obtained renewal of five-year easements for water monitoring sampling sites.
- Revised and upgraded Ten Towns web site.
- Implemented EPA grant activities including:
- Conducted one-on-one seminars on storm water management/smart growth/low density development in Ten Towns municipalities.
- Conducted "General" and "Technical" seminars on storm water management, including Phase II water quality regulations.
- Conducted Environmentally Sensitive Golf Course/Open Space seminar.
- Conducted Aaquatic Ecosystem Restoration seminar.
- Conducted Volunteer Lake Monitoring and Lake Education seminar.
- Published Volunteer Lake Monitoring Handbook.
- Conducted follow-up training and lake monitoring "audits".
- Prepared Retrofit Detention Basin and Stormwater Outfall Inventories for the Great Swamp Watershed.
- Selected major Best Management Practices demonstration site and completed designed for improvements.
- Presented second series of Environmental Achievement Awards (June 2003).
- Completed design for stream corridor and bioretention Demonstration Project at Bayne Park/Christ the King Church complex. Construction to begin in 2004.
- Completed St. James Church Detention Basin Retrofit Demonstration Project.
- Completed a Ten Towns Committee Strategic Planning meeting (April 2004).
- Completed Shrine of St. Joseph Bioretention Demonstration Project (June 2004).
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