Stormwater Management
What Can You Do?
- Drive less and maintain your vehicles
- Wash your car at a commercial car wash rather than in the street /driveway
- Sweep walkways and driveways instead of hosing off with water
- Compost (or dispose of) grass clippings and yard waste away from streams, shorelines, ditches, and ponds
- Use eco-friendly alternatives to pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers
- Remove part or all of your lawn and replace with native plants
- Install a natural landscape on your property
- Maintain your septic system
- Pick up after your pets and keep animals out of surface waters
- Maintain stormwater systems
- Manage stormwater where it falls; use Low Impact Development principles and practices
- Reduce impervious surfaces at home
- Support creation of a local storm or surface water management program within the cities
- Make smart growth choices
Web - http://www.psat.wa.gov/Programs/stormwater/stormwater_10things.htm
Who can help you?
- Kitsap County Surface and Stormwater Management Program
- City of Bainbridge Island
- City of Bremerton
- PSP Stormwater Management
(Low Impact Development or LID)