What You Can Do
Simple actions by residents and property owners can have a big cumulative impact on water quality, localized flooding, and erosion. Explore what you can do to help our local waters while beautifying your property, removing ice and snow, or walking your pet.
Simple actions by residents and property owners can have a big cumulative impact on water quality, localized flooding, and erosion. Explore what you can do to help our local waters while beautifying your property, removing ice and snow, or walking your pet.
Seasonal Resources
Pick Up Pet Waste
Your pet’s poop can pollute stormwater. Rain and melting snow flows across yards and trails, collecting in storm drains that lead directly to lakes, streams and wetlands (without being treated!).
Adopt A Storm Drain
Leaves, grass clippings and other residential waste contribute excess nutrients that can harm water quality in local lakes, wetlands and streams.
Toxic pollutant dumping: What you can do
Also known as illicit discharge, dumping toxic pollutants into the stormwater system should be avoided at all costs. Learn how to detect illicit discharge and what to do about it.
Water Friendly Yard Care
Keep waters clean with a few small changes to your yard care routine.
Reduce salt pollution
Salt is a permanent pollutant that damages water quality and aquatic wildlife. Learn how you can make a difference when removing ice and snow.
Additional Resources
All About Rain Gardens
The purpose of a rain garden is to improve water quality in nearby bodies of water, which are connected to hard surfaces through the underground storm drain system.
Rain Garden Maintenance
Here are some maintenance tips for Spring and early Summer.