CLEAR’s NEMO (Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials) program has been working with communities to protect water quality through better land use since 1991. At present, our main focus in on helping Connecticut communities respond to the “MS4” stormwater general permit, which was expanded in 2017. And we have developed various tools to help protect our waterways, like the NEMO Rain Garden smartphone app, and the N-Sink tool, to determine areas in a watershed that are important for reducing nitrogen pollution. Recently, we have developed the Stormwater Corps, deploying trained undergraduates to perform stormwater retrofit analyses for towns (see also our STEM portfolio).
NEMO, with funding from CT DEEP, is providing multi-faceted support to communities and institutions
to help them comply with the state’s municipal stormwater regulation.
NEMO provides trainings, a website, and the multi-state Rain Garden mobile app to demonstrate how
to properly site, size, design, and install a stormwater filtering rain garden with plant, sizing, and soils
data specific to over 20 states.
This interactive map showcases examples of water friendly green infrastructure/low impact
development practices around the country.
This story map highlights the level of acceptance of LID in local land use regulations
and serves as a database of sample regulations.
A project documenting the development and implementation of the Nation’s first impervious cover
based TMDL plan on the UCONN Campus.
A simple tool for local land use managers to explore the relationship between land use and nitrogen
pollution in their waters.
