How to Manage and Landscape Your Property

Plentiful, clean drinking water is essential for healthy lives and property values. “How to Manage and Landscape Your Property” is a succinct, yet comprehensive, brochure for property owners that gives information about easy and important ways to safequard one’s well and avoid polluted runoff to neighboring or downstream properties, upstream reservoirs, and Long Island Sound. The brochure is one-stop shopping for responsible and cost-effective protections that anyone can implement and gives links to other organizations and agencies with additional resources. Individuals, organizations, and municipalities are encouraged to download the two-sided, legal-size PDF and spread the information to help diminish nonpoint pollution.

There are two different versions: one for Connecticut and one for New York State,(page #1 and page #2 download) *prints in landscape format

Each has helpful links to additional agencies, organizations, and information. The Connecticut brochure was distributed by the towns of New Canaan, Redding , Ridgefield , Weston, and Wilton and is available at local libraries and Town Halls. Printing costs were partially funded by a small grant from The Sounds Conservancy. A newly updated version was distributed at the end of May 2008 in newspapers to residents and businesses in Norwalk and Wilton. That revision and distribution was made possible by a grant from the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection through its Long Island Sound License Plate Program.

The New York version (page #1 and page #2 download), partially made possible at the end of 2007 by a small grant from The Sounds Conservancy, is available at the Lewisboro Town House, South Salem Library, and other locations.

To aid in implementing the brochure’s recommendations, don’t forget to check out this website for information on a variety of topics – from invasive or native plantings to water quality and opportunities for hands-on work to improve our resources and access to them.