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Brown identifies plants and techniques that leverage this natural process in order to filter clean and slow runoff a practice known as low impact development using plants for stormwater management presents the native ecological communities and plant species of the gulf south in easy to follow sections and diagrams. Using plants for stormwater management presents the native ecological communities and plant species of the gulf south in easy to follow sections and diagrams information ranging from the productiveness of root structures and the compatibility of plants with local soils to the optimal elevation of specific vegetation and the average dimensions . Stormwater trees pdf 21 pp 10 mb september 2016 trees in the urban environment provide many benefits and tree programs face challenges that can affect their success this document recommends ways to plan for and maintain urban trees . An overview of green infrastructure section 502 of the clean water act defines green infrastructure as the range of measures that use plant or soil systems permeable pavement or other permeable surfaces or substrates stormwater harvest and reuse or landscaping to store infiltrate or evapotranspirate stormwater and reduce flows to sewer systems or to surface waters