Best Practices & Restoration Projects
Does your city have a best practice to share? If so, please use the GLSLCI Best Practices template to provide us with a brief overview and send it to
Melissa Soline at melissa.soline@glslcities.org.
Climate Action / Sustainability Plans
Education and Outreach
Environmental Planning and Design
Pollution Reduction
Restoration / Preservation
Stormwater / WastewaterWater Conservation
Waterfront Vitality
Wege Small Cities Sustainability Best Practices Award
Dune Swales Project at North Beach, City of Racine, Wisconsin (April 2009)
Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Clean Beaches Initiative to encourage use of sanitary surveys at beaches (Spring 2008)
Chicago Beach Testing and Efforts to Reduce Swimming Bans (October 2003)
Racine Beach Grooming Tactics to Reduce Swimming Bans (October 2003)
Climate Action & Sustainability Plans
City of Chicago, Climate Action Plan (September 2008)
Town of Collingwood, Sustainable Community Plan for Town of Collingwood
City of Evanston, Evanston Climate Action Plan
City of Grand Rapids, Sustainability Plan
City of Montreal, Montreal's First Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development
City of Rochester, Green Initiatives
Village of Spring Lake, Go Green
City of Thunder Bay, EarthWise Thunder Bay, Community Envrionmental Action Plan
City of Toronto, Live Green Toronto
Root River Environmental Education Center, City of Racine, Wisconsin (April 2009)Reducing Urban Pesticide Use Through Education and Legislation, City of Toronto (August 19, 2008)
Redesigning the Governance Structure of the Great Lakes: A Report to the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative by Mauricio Gonzalez, MPP and Duncan Kisia, MPP of the University of Chicago, Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy (June 29, 2007)The Great Lakes: An Analysis of Federal Specific,Federal General and State Programs by Braulia Espinosa, Kara Knack and Ginger Pitch of the University of Illinois Chicago (May 3, 2007)
Outdoor lawn watering advertising and information campaign, Toronto, Ontario (September 2005)
Educational outreach program, City of Duluth, MN (May 2005)
Stormwater Education, City of Superior, Wisconsin (February 2005)
Grass Roots Water Education Campaign: Rain Garden and Rain Barrel Pilot Projects, Chicago, Illinois (December 2004)
Water Education Campaign, Chicago, Illinois (December 2004)
Environmental Planning and Design
Toronto's Green Standard, Toronto, ON (updated December 2009)
Chicago's Guide to Completing an Energy Efficiency & Conservation Strategy, Chicago, IL (June 2009)
Developing Our Coastlines: Four Michigan Communities Take Stock of their Great Lakes Assets (August 2006)
Marquette Plan, Gary, IN (August 2005)
A Guide to Rooftop Gardening from the City of Chicago, Richard M. Daley, Mayor (2001)
Clean Your Streams Program Toledo, Ohio (March 2009)
Mercury Reduction, City of Superior, Wisconsin (February 2005)
Special Area Management Plans & Wetland Preservation, Superior Wisconsin (April 2009)
City of Chicago Invasive Species Ordinance (July 2007)
Hog Island Inlet Remediation, Superior, WI (June 2007)
City of Superior contact: Jeff Vito, (715) 395-7334
Drinking Water Quality, Toronto, Ontario (September 2005)
Boardman River Dams Project, Traverse City, MI (August 2005)
Boardman River Dams Project, Traverse City, MI
(August 2005)
Visit the Northeast-Midwest Institute's Comparison of Ecosystem Restoration Initiatives website.
Green Pipeline to Fuel Water Reclamaition Facility, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, (March 2009)
National Biosolids Partnership- Environmental Management System, City of Grand Rapids, Michigan (March 2009) Certification.
High Rate Treatment Facility, City of Niagara Falls, Ontario (March 2009)
Onsite Sewage System Reinspection Program, Township of Tiny, Ontario (February 2009)
Downspout Disconnection Program, City of Thunder Bay, Ontario (March 2009)East End Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario (February 2009)
Stormwater Management Planters, City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (February 2009)
Combined Sewer Overflow History and Abatement, Cityof Grand Rapids (September 2006)
Rochester New York Pure Waters District Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement Program (CSOAP), City of Rochester, NY (October 2005)
25-year Wet Weather Flow Management Master Plan, Toronto, Ontario (September 2005)
Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement Program, City ofErie, PA (August 2005)
Sediment Demonstration Project, City of Duluth, MN (May 2005)
Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade, Traverse City, MI (August 2005)
Sediment Traps, City of Duluth, MN (May 2005)
Stormwater Education, City of Superior, Wisconsin (February 2005)Stormwater Flood Control Pilot Program, City of Superior, Wisconsin (February 2005)
Stormwater Best Management Practices, Chicago, Illinois (December 2004)
Re-engineering Storm Sewer Outfall Mechanism toReduce Bacterial Contamination to Surface Water, Racine Wisconsin (December 2003)
Coin Operated Solar Powered Water Dispensing Station, Town of Penetanguishene, Ontario (April 2009)
Leak Detection Program - Energy Management and Water Loss Control, City of Thunder Bay, Ontario (March 2009)
GLSLCI Water Conservation Participants' Best Practices
A list of best practices from participants of the GLSLCI Water Conservation Framework.GLSLCI Water Conservation Participants' Water Conservation Programs
Visit the GLSLCI Water Conservation Framework webpage to learn about the water conservation programs underway in participating cities.Toilet Replacement Program (Promotional Materials), Toronto, Ontario (September 2005)
Washing Machine Cash Incentive Program, Toronto, Ontario (September 2005)
Green Bay, WI
St. Catharines, ONT
Thunder Bay, ONT
Wege Small Cities Sustainability Best Practices Award
Submission information for Wege Award
2009 Submissions:
Summary of 2009 Submissions
Evanston, IL
Racine, WI
Town of The Blue Mountains, ON
Township of the Archipelago, ON
2008 Submissions:
Summary of 2008 Submissions
Town of Ajax, ONT - 2008 Wege Award Recipient
2007 Submissions:
Summary of 2007 Submissions
Beaconsfield, QUE - 2007 Wege Award Recipient
Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative
George K. Heartwell, Mayor of Grand Rapids , Chair
Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago, Founding U.S. Chair
David Miller, Mayor of Toronto, Founding Canadian Chair
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