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Establishing a Stormwater Volume Credit Trading Program

American Rivers guidance on how to establish stormwater credit trading programs. The guidance is designed for communities interested in exploring non-traditional approach to address stormwater challenges and describes the history and fundamentals of stormwater volume credit trading, primarily through the lens of the design for a proposed trading program in Grand Rapids,
Michigan. It is the product of a collaboration between staff from American Rivers, Corona Environmental Consulting, and the Water Environment Federation, working together under the tradename Stormwater Currency.

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