Website about stormwater management strategies that utilize trees and structural soils to improve water quality. Uses can access resources such as a “Best Management Practices” design manual, a presentation that helps explain how this soil system works, and more. Examples and pictures of where this idea has been implemented are also presented. Partners for this project include Virginia Tech, Cornell University Urban Horticulture Institute, and University of California at Davis with funding from the USDA Forest Service.
 

About Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech, a former military technical institute in Blacksburg, encourages students to “invent the future.” It is a research powerhouse, with seven research institutes and two university research centers that offer undergraduate and graduate students research opportunities. Graduate offerings include programs in the highly ranked College of Engineering. The university sports teams, known as the Hokies, compete in the NCAA Division I Atlantic Coast Conference.