Environment and Gardening

• Composting
• Leave the Leaves - Leaf Composting
• Winter Composting
• Conserve Water with Xeriscape Landscaping
• Energy-Saving Landscaping
• Grasscycling
• Green Roofs
• Landscaping - Low Maintenance
• Landscaping -Plants for Shady Areas
• Rain Barrels
• Rain Garden, Installing a
• Vermicomposting
• Water-wise Gardening
• Improving Soil Drainage
• Natural & Organic Fertilizers
• Local Sources for Organic Materials in Rockland County
• Mulches

Flowers and Grasses

• Ornamental Grasses

Lawns and Ground Cover

• Ground Covers
• Growing Turf Under Shaded Conditions
• Lawn Care
• Lawn Care without Pesticides
• Soil pH, Correcting
Spring Lawn Care
• Plants for a Low Maintenance Landscape

Trees and Shrubs

• Landscaping -Spacing Plants
• Trees & Shrubs -Fertilizing
• Trees & Shrubs -Planting

Water Quality & Stormwater Conservation

• Stormwater Regulations: Erosion & Sediment Controls
• Legally Applying Fertilizer in Rockland County*
  •  en Español
• Your Home & Water Quality Impacts*
  • en Español
  • Kreyòl Ayisyen
• Harmful Algae Blooms in Rockland 
• "What's in our Waters?" Water Quality brochure for kids
• The Homeowner’s Lawn Care and Water Quality Almanac 

• SCRC’s Stormwater Public Service Announcements:

  • Check out our "Leave the Leaves" Webcast on Fall Lawn Care & Stormwater Runoff
  • See our "Halt that Salt" webcast on Winter Weather and Water Quality Safety
• 2016 Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination Program Brochure 
  • NYSDOT’s Illicit Stormwater Discharges
• Keep your Business Property Clean & Safe Brochure
• Don't Flush the Wipes (poster)
• Clean Streets = Clean Streams
• Primer on Woody Shrubs for Stormwater Retention Practices from Cornell University School of Integrative Plant Science
• Streamside & Shoreline Protections
• Best Management Practices for NYS Golf Courses
• Rockland County Storm Drain Marking Program
• NYSDEC’s Stormwater Guidance Manual for Local Officials
• EPA’s Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination Guidance Manual
• Stormwater Management Guide for Planning Board Members

Hudson River Fish Advisory

• 2017 Fish Advisory
  • en Español
  • en français
  • Kreyòl Ayisyen