Resource Library
Welcome to the River Network Resource Library!
Search through hundreds of publications, recorded webinars, newsletters, tools, and templates to support your water work. Explore specific topics using the icons below, or if you’re not sure what you need, use the search bar. Type in keywords like “strategic planning,” “State Revolving Fund,” or “data collection.” The resources included here are intended to help you advance your work and spark innovation and new ideas.
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Featured Resources
- Building Blocks of Trust – how community organizations and utilities can work together.
- Colorado SMP – everything you’d ever need to know about stream management planning in Colorado.
- Equitable Infrastructure Toolkit – learn to advocate for equitable water infrastructure in your community.
- Tools for Equitable Climate Resilience – how to perform community-led research and support local leaders to advance climate resilience.
- Waste in Our Waters: A Community Toolkit for Aquatic Litter Removal – one-stop shop for building a litter removal program.
- The Clean Water Act Owner’s Manual – the quintessential, transformational tool on how YOU can use the CWA to protect your waters.
- State Revolving Fund Advocacy Toolkit – a comprehensive guide for advocates looking to get up to speed on the SRF process.
- Effective Organizations – a five-part learning series on everything from board governance, to volunteer management, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and more.
Looking for information on specific state-level water policies? Explore the State Policy Hub!
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EPA’s Green Infrastructure Modeling Toolkit for Stormwater Management
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: WebinarGreen infrastructure (e.g., rain gardens, green roofs, porous pavement, cisterns) is becoming an increasingly attractive way to recharge aquifers and reduce the amount of stormwater runoff that flows, untreated, into wastewater treatment plants or wate… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Anti-Littering- Social Marketing for Behavior Change
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities, Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: WebinarLitter and trash from consumer goods make up the majority of marine debris that pollute our waterways and oceans. Feel like your organization needs to do more than annual clean ups to reduce trash and litter, but not sure how to make an impact? Not sur… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Strengthening Flood Resilience Through Integrated Water Management
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: WebinarAt scales ranging from the neighborhood and city to the watershed and basin, some communities are doing the work of breaking down the silos in water management to increase sustainability and equitably maximize benefits across the community and watershe… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Water Scarcity as a Catalyst for Integrated Water Management – Creating Multiple Benefits for Your Community and River
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: WebinarAt scales ranging from the neighborhood and city to the watershed and basin, some communities are doing the work of breaking down the silos in water management to increase sustainability and equitably maximize benefits across the community and watershe… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Brownfields for Beginners – What you need to know to kickstart your “Brownfield-for-Community-Benefit” project
Program: Drinking Water, Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: WebinarThis webinar was hosted by the Urban Waters Learning Network and recorded on Aug. 02, 2016 Are you working to reclaim urban waterways while occasionally bumping up against waterfront properties home to former industrial uses? Ever wonder how to get a g… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Sewage Pollution as a Catalyst for Integrated Water Management – Creating Multiple Benefits for Your Community and River
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: WebinarThis webinar was co-hosted with the Urban Waters Learning Network and recorded on September 14, 2016 webinar. Description: At scales ranging from the neighborhood and city to the watershed and basin, some communities are doing the work of breaking down… View Resource ›
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Project Rain Barrel Workshop Planning Guide
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: Manuals, Tools and TemplatesIs your organization interested in receiving free materials, promotion, and support to host public rain barrel making workshops? You’re in the right place! Please download and read the entire planning guide before submitting a Project Rain Barrel appli… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Protecting and Restoring Buffers – The Answer to Your Urban River’s Problems?
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: WebinarThis webinar was sponsored by the Urban Waters Learning Network and recorded on December 4, 2014 Description: Merritt Frey reviews a variety of buffer types and their effectiveness in addressing many river issues, and shares “lessons learned” to help y… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Greenways – The Urban Waters Experience
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: WebinarThis webinar was sponsored by the Urban Waters Learning Network and recorded on February 10, 2015 Description: In this recording, Ryan Parker describes their grant-funded work to clean up brownfields and carve out green spaces for park land to create a… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Water Quality Monitoring for Impact and Engagement
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities, Water Science
Resource Type: WebinarThis webinar was sponsored by the Urban Waters Learning Network and recorded on April 8, 2015 Description: In this recording, Stacey Eriksen reviews EPA resources available to support volunteer monitoring programs and outlines considerations in creatin… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Training a Green Infrastructure Workforce
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: WebinarThis webinar was sponsored by the Urban Waters Learning Network and recorded on December 8, 2015. Description: In this recorded webinar you’ll learn about efforts to meet two communities’ parallel needs to both manage stormwater and train a skilled wor… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Turning Vacant Lots into Green Spaces – Baltimore’s Experience (and Replicable Tools)
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: WebinarThis webinar was hosted with the Urban Waters Learning Network and recorded on January 13, 2016. Description: In this recorded webinar, you’ll learn about Baltimore’s Green Pattern Book, a tool created as part of the city’s Growing Green Initiative to… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Green Streets – Filtering and Slowing Stormwater, Revitalizing Neighborhoods and Making Streets Safer
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: WebinarThis webinar was co-hosted by the Urban Waters Learning Network and recorded on May 11, 2016. Description: As much as 38% of an urban area’s impervious area can be in the form of streets. The goal of Green Streets efforts is to bring the benefits of gr… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Integrated Waters Management – What Is It and How Can It Benefit Your Community and River?
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: WebinarThis webinar was co-hosted with the Urban Waters Learning Network and recorded on August 24, 2016 webinar. Description: What does “Integrated Water Management” mean for your watershed and your community? Where has it been used and what are the benefits… View Resource ›
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Green Streets Resources
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities, Water Law & Policy
Resource Type: Tools and TemplatesBelow is a compilation of resources and examples of green streets projects. Click “Resource File” for the pdf version. River Network Resources River Network’s Promoting Green Streets – A Recipe for Integrating Water and Transportation Infrastructure In… View Resource ›
