Beyond the Guidebook: Establish Watershed-Specific Runoff Capture Performance Targets

Identify what needs to be done at the site scale to prevent stream erosion and protect stream health

In February 2008, the British Columbia Inter-Governmental Partnership released a document titled Beyond the Guidebook: Establish Watershed-Specific Runoff Capture Performance Targets to provide guidance in implementing RAINwater management solutions.
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Protect Stream Health: Set Achievable, Affordable and Effective Watershed Targets

Performance target methodology explained at Cowichan Valley Learning Lunch Seminar #3

The pilot Cowichan Valley Learning Lunch Seminar Series comprised a set of three sessions during the June-July 2008. The focus of the third seminar was on watershed targets for protecting stream health.
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City of Surrey moves beyond pilot projects to a watersheds objectives approach to green infrastructure implementation

The City of Surrey's experience in successfully implementing on-site rainwater management and green infrastructure solutions has informed the evolution of the "Water Balance Model for British Columbia", and is advancing a performance target approach.
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Stormwater Guidebook, Performance Targets and the Water Balance Model: Connecting the Dots

"The New Business As Usual": Integration of RAINwater management with land development practices

At the second seminar in the 2008 Comox Valley Learning Lunch Series, Kim Stephens provided local government participants with an overview of a performance target way-of-thinking and acting to protect stream health.
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Characterizing Stormwater Quality: A Fool's Errand?

Gary Minton suggests characterizing the watershed rather than the rainwater runoff

In the January-February 2009 issue of Stormwater magazine, Dr. Gary Minton questions the validity of rainwater/stormwater runoff monitoring, and suggests watershed characterization as an alternative.
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