In the interest of full disclosure, we want you to know that this part of the Impervious Surfaces website is composed of existing materials collected from the NEMO vaults. In the course of educating about natural resource based planning and “green” site design, the topic of reducing the amount and impacts of impervious surface comes up often. Here, then, we provide a convenience store from which to pop off to other items in NEMOland that are related to impervious surface, as well as links to a few key other resources.

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Impervious Surface: The Emergence of a Key Environmental Indicator. 1996.

There are a host of great articles on impervious cover and its impacts that were written for the defunct Watershed Protection Techniques journal, produced by the anything-BUT-defunct NEMO partner Center for Watershed Protection (CWP). These articles can be browsed (first page only) through the CWP-maintained Stormwater Center website at: www.stormwatercenter.net

They are also compiled in the CWP publication, The Practice of Watershed Protection, which can be ordered through the CWP website at:
www.cwp.org

NEMO Fact Sheet #3: Impacts of Development on Waterways

NEMO Technical Paper #1: Addressing Imperviousness in Plans, Site Design and Land Use Regulations. 1998.

NEMO Technical Paper #5: Parking Lots

NEMO Technical Paper #6: Driveways

NEMO Technical Paper #7: Sidewalks

NEMO Technical Paper #8: Pavements & Surface Materials

NEMO Technical Paper #9: Roads

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We have an entire section of the NEMO website devoted to alternatives to conventional impervious materials. It’s called Reducing Runoff.

Design extends not only to individual parcels, but to entire developments and subdivisions. So try:

Low Impact Development Center:
www.lowimpactdevelopment.org

NEMO Fact Sheet #9: Open Space Developments: A Better Way to Protect Water Quality, Retain Wildlife, and Preserve Rural Character