Numerous people from across the state have been provided training to help deliver the Kentucky Growth Readiness for Water Quality educational materials. As a part of that training, these individuals received a set of support materials to help them with their job of educating local officials. However, as more materials become available, or questions arise, the Commonwealth Water Education Project will provide additional support materials via this web site.
 
These materials may also be useful to others wishing to deliver water education in their community. The following links are provided to support Growth Readiness for water quality with links to other web sites, new maps, and other materials trainers may need. Let us know if there are other materials we can provide.

Support Links
Click here to see links to information to help communities deal with local planning and development issues. Topics include: analysis, best practices, planning, funding, sample ordinances, etc.

Graph and Effects of Impervious Cover slides
This download contains a two-slide PowerPoint file with a graph correlating in-stream water quality vs. impervious cover; the second slide contains several photographs illustrating the effects of different degrees of impervious cover. This can be used to help explain and illustrate the effects of imperviousness on water quality.

Methodology For Creating Impervious Cover Maps
This document answers technical questions regarding the creation of maps indicating the degree of imperviousness used in the Growth Readiness presentations.

Updated County Maps
 
 
Each Growth Readiness trainer was provided a CD with 120 county maps based on most recent data. As new data become available, these maps will be updated. To download maps, select a county from the preferred drop-down list. If you wish to download all 120 counties, choose "All Counties" from the drop-down list.

Warning: "All Counties" options link to very large files (47- 228 MB)