The Soundfront Series: Protecting Estuarine Water Quality Through Design

As part of a series written for planners and property owners in estuarine zones, this guide focuses on landscape design strategies to improve estuarine water quality by mitigating potentially negative effects of development. These strategies are presented in categories relative to the scale of development. Hydrology basics, designing site plans, designing individual parcels, planning a buffer, and two case studies in North Carolina are covered. Graphical information supplements the text.