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.
Beaches
Education and Outreach
Environmental Planning and Design
Pollution Reduction
Restoration
Stormwater
Wastewater Treatment
Waterfront Vitality
Wege Award Submissions: Small Sustainable Cities
Chicago Beach Testing and Efforts to Reduce Swimming Bans (October 2003)
Racine Beach Grooming Tactics to Reduce Swimming Bans (October 2003)
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
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)
Mercury Reduction, City of Superior, Wisconsin (February 2005)
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)
Toilet Replacement Program (Promotional Materials), Toronto, Ontario (September 2005)
Washing Machine Cash Incentive Program, 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.
Combined Sewer Overflow History and Abatement, City of 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 of Erie, PA (August 2005)
Sediment Demonstration Project, City of Duluth, MN (May 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 to Reduce Bacterial Contamination to Surface Water, Racine Wisconsin (December 2003)
Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade, Traverse City, MI (August 2005)
Green Bay, WI
St. Catharines, ONT
Thunder Bay, ONT
Wege Award Submissions: Small Sustainable Cities
Wege Award Description and Summary of 2007 Submissions
Town of The Blue Mountains, ONT
Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative
Gary Becker, Mayor of Racine, Chair
Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago, Founding United States Chair
David Miller, Mayor of Toronto, Founding Canadian Chair
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