Publications & Downloads
Sustainability for all the places between the buildings.
LID Photos
Publications
Publications I've collaborated on:
Oregon State University Extension Service . "Tree protection on construction and development sites." Jan 2010.
Oregon Environmental Council. "LID: Protecting Oregon's waters as we grow"

Oregon State University Extension Service. StormWater Assessment and Management decision-support Process (SWAMP)

Fact Sheets include:

LID Overview
Rain Gardens

Stormwater Planters

Green Roofs

Porous Pavements

Soakage Trenches
(a.k.a. infiltration trenches)
Swales

Vegetated Filter Strips

Drywells

Soil Infiltration Testing
(a.k.a. Percolation testing)

Tools:

LID Infiltration Facility Sizing Calculator


Articles I've written:

Cahill, Maria. "Home Building News, Help your bottom line and the community." Jan 2010. Home Builders Association of Metropolitan Portland. (For a more readable version of the article, click here.)

Forthcoming

Oregon State University Extension Service. StormWater Assessment and Management decision-support Process (SWAMP). Standard Plans of rain gardens, planters, drywells, soakage trenches, porous pavements, vegetated filter strips, and more in AutoCAD.

LID Photos

I was hired by Metro, our regional intercountry government to photodocument 50 LID sites. Here's a sample of a few of them with additional photos that I've collected that I hope you find useful.

Creative Commons License
LID Photos by Maria Cahill is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.  This means you can use them and modify them as long as you share your modifications with others. It also means that I, Maria Cahill, would like to get credit. CAUTION: There's one photo in here that Gwenn Kubeck of the City of Corvallis shared with me and I've labeled the photo with her name, so give her credit instead. (She's authorized me to share this.)

Download photos (almost 40 MB)

 
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Updated 1 Jun 2010