A healthy lawn can improve water quality by filtering, purifying and reducing stormwater runoff

Your stormwater may become someone’s drinking water, or possibly your own. Reducing the quantity and improving the quality of stormwater runoff can begin at your home.

Rain gardens are designed to allow stormwater running off hard surfaces to infiltrate into the soil. There are many benefits and a few patterns to observe in their construction.

Washing grime off the car may be causing harm to local waterways. Water that runs off your car may contain detergents, residue from exhaust fumes, gasoline, metals from rust and brakes, oils, tar, salts and soil.

A single gram of dog feces contains an average of 23 million fecal coliform bacteria, including E-coli.

Successful lawn fertilization requires that you assess the lawn's nutritional requirements, understand fertilizers, know how much to apply, and use proper application techniques.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Minimize and manage your household waste to protect our waterways. Hazardous waste needs to be disposed of safely and properly. For upcoming events in Ontario County, go to: ontariocountyrecycles.org/150/Events 

As beneficial as chlorine can be in controlled situations, its release into the environment is damaging. Even small concentrations of chlorine can harm aquatic life.

Using pesticides safely and properly is essential to protect public safety and organisms.

Turn your fruit, vegetable and yard waste into a dark, crumbly, sweet-smelling soil gold for your gardens.

Learn more about the key role restaurants play in keeping our water clean.

Stormwater ponds, while providing stormwater management and protection of water quality downstream, also create vistas and recreational opportunities.

Moving dirt or building something? Click here to learn more about stormwater construction permit regulations.

An illicit discharge can contaminate our drinking water, endanger public health, and pollute our surface water, groundwater and soils.

As stormwater flows over the land it can become contaminated by debris, chemicals, dirt and other pollutants.