Westport's Conservation Department Releases 'Low Impact Development' Guidelines

Westport, CT - The town's Conservation Department has released a new "Low-Impact Development" brochure to aid Westport home and business owners in the creation of landscaping that can help improve the community's water quality.

The two-page document discusses such landscaping as bioswales, permeable paving, rain gardens and vegetated buffers, all of which can help keep stormwater from becoming polluted.

"Low-Impact Development (LID) has emerged as a highly effective and attractive approach to controlling stormwater pollution and protecting developing watersheds in already urbanized communities

throughout the country," the brochure states.

"It is an approach to land development that works with nature to manage stormwater as close to its source as possible."

Click here to view the brochure. A printed form of the document is also available in the Conservation Department at Westport Town Hall.