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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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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Webinar: Targeting Your Grant Efforts Effectively
Program: Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: WebinarThis webinar was sponsored by the Urban Waters Learning Network and recorded on June 20, 2013. Description: Most urban waters nonprofits in the U.S. rely on grants from foundations and public agencies. The organizations that are really good at securing… View Resource ›
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Webinar: Creative Partnerships in Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring
Program: Water Science
Resource Type: WebinarThis webinar was sponsored by the Urban Waters Learning Network and recorded on July 25th, 2013 Description: How can creative partnerships help you establish or grow your volunteer water quality monitoring effort? This recorded webinar provides an over… 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: “Survival Training” for a Successful Urban Waters Cooperative Agreement
Program: Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: WebinarThis webinar was sponsored by the Urban Waters Learning Network and recorded on Nov. 13, 2014 Description: A survival training webinar to help you manage your EPA Urban Waters Small grant and answer questions related to its Terms and Conditions, making… 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: Engaging Elected Officials in Your Work
Program: Strong Organizations & Leaders
Resource Type: WebinarThis webinar was sponsored by the Urban Waters Learning Network and recorded on May 19, 2015. Description: This recorded webinar covers various aspects of engaging elected officials in urban waters work. Sven-Erik Kaiser provides guidance and tips for… 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 ›
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Promoting Green Streets – A Recipe for Integrating Water and Transportation Infrastructure Investment
Program: Resilient Cities & Communities
Resource Type: Manuals, Reports, Tools and TemplatesTo address complementary municipal goals of improved water quality and restored natural hydrology, this project focused on the development of a simple and logical methodology to promote street-based stormwater management. This methodology is guided by… View Resource ›
