
CEDS Publications
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GENERAL CEDS PUBLICATIONS
How To Win Land Development Issues (Our 300-page book)
Quality of Life Impact Review Checklist
Project Impact Assessment Checklist
Community Meeting Samples: Flyer, Factsheet, Pledge Form, Volunteer Survey Form, and Meeting Outline
RIVER, LAKE, ESTUARY & WETLAND PROTECTION
Construction Sites:
- Greater Baltimore Construction Site Erosion Control Audit;
- Why Exposed Soil = Pollution;
- Exposed Soil = Pollution: How You Can Save 100 Feet of Chesapeake Bay Tributaries in an Hour by Halting Construction Site Mud Pollution;
- Watershed Advocates Construction ES=P Checklist
- 20-Minute YouTube Presentation on Evaluating & Improving Erosion & Sediment Control Quality; and
- Tracing Muddy Water to Pollution Sources.
Stormwater:
- Greater Baltimore Stormwater BMP Audit;
- Auditing Chesapeake Bay Watershed Stormwater Best Management Practices;
- 20-Minute YouTube Presentation on Locating & Evaluating Stormwater BMPs;
- Watershed Advocates Stormwater BMP Checklist;
- Factsheets:
Environmental Site Design:
- ESD Factsheet;
- ESD Checklist;
- Forest Conservation Act Compliance;
- Riparian Buffers;
- Examples of Countywide Survey:
Agriculture:
Watershed Audits:
- Watershed Audit webpage;
- Severn River Audit
- Corsica River Audit
- Point Source Discharges
- Expanding Public Support for Clean Water
Other:
- 20-minute YouTube Presentation on Curbing the Big Six Chesapeake Bay Pollution Sources.
- Dumpster Pollution Survey
- The Effects of Marinas & Boating Activity Upon Maryland Tidal Waterways
SCHOOLS & GROWTH
- How Successful Are Maryland Counties In Preventing School Overcrowding, and
- Assessing School, Traffic & Environmental Effects of Rezoning Requests
TRAFFIC & HIGHWAYS
CEDS Traffic Impact Evaluation Procedures
Highway Battles & How They Are Won webpage
Making Neighborhood Streets Safer webpage
Traffic & Neighborhood Quality of Life
EIS Critique Example: Expansion of I-93 in New Hampshire
Example of a Strategy to Preserve Quality of Life from Highway Impacts
Highways, Stream & Reservoir Pollution & Induced Growth: An Example of a CEDS Analysis
LANDFILLS
Landfills, Transfer Stations & Other Waste Facilities webpage
Sample CEDS Analysis of a Proposed Landfill
GOLF COURSES
Golf Course Preservation webpage
Protecting the Aquatic Environment from the Effects of Golf Courses
Golf Courses & the Aquatic Environment
Effects of Meeting House Golf Club Upon Edgartown Great Pond