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:
  • Stormwater Ponds;
  • Infiltration Trenches;
  • Infiltration Basin;
  • Rain Gardens & Bioretention;
  • Sand Filters;
  • Finding Stormwater BMPs.
  • Storm Drain Discharges & Pollution
  • Dumpsters & Water Pollution

Environmental Site Design:

• ESD Factsheet;
• ESD Checklist;
• Forest Conservation Act Compliance;
• Riparian Buffers;
• Examples of Countywide Survey:
  • Baltimore County, MD; and
  • Montgomery County, MD.

Agriculture:

• Factsheet: Crop Residue & Cover Crops

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

Traffic 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