Slopes and Low Impact Development: Designing and Siting LID Practices on Slopes
August 2015
By: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-09/documents/bbfs9slopes_0.pdf
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This fact sheet presents considerations for the design and planning of low-impact development (LID) on slopes. It describes features used to slow down, retain, and infiltrate water on slopes including vegetation, diversion berms, terraces and weep gardens, check dams, and baffles. The fact sheet provides case studies from Seattle and Aukland, New Zealand.